Thanks to everyone for the great participation in the last Bingo Game! We are back with another edition of Steemit Bingo in support of yet another great initiative by @davemccoy:
https://steemit.com/play4anewbie/@davemccoy/play-4-a-newbie-challenge-day-4-scoreboard-and-games-to-play
My apologies to @bengy and others that missed out in putting in an entry last time, and I hope @simon62 will get a chance to play this time as well :) For those who thought that the contest didn't have quite the same excitement as the first edition of Steemit Bingo, I am introducing a couple of new features to make it more exciting.
Also, as we have done in the previous two games, we want to put the spotlight on groups that are promoting Steemit and supporting Steemians to build a better community here on this platform. This week we are featuring the Information Finding Championship that was created by @apolymask, a contest that is unlike any other you will see on Steemit!
With new challenges and different talents/skills/knowledge showcased in each round, this is truly a contest where everyone has a chance to shine. These are some of the challenges and entries to give you an idea of the flavour of the contest:
https://steemit.com/informationfinding/@ifc/ifc-winning-round-results-so-far
How to Play
Eligibility
This game is open to anyone who is a follower of @ifc or have participated in any of the IFC rounds so far. So make sure you follow the account or participate in one of the IFC rounds to make sure that you have an eligible entry.
Make your bingo card
Create a 4 x 4 grid and fill it with the account names from the list of followers of the @ifc account (there are around 50+ followers last time I checked so plenty to choose from!). A simple way to creating tables is to use the '|' symbol like this and then leave a space and add a username and repeat until you have four in one row.
Why 16 names? Because I think it is just enough for you to put down your favourite people plus a few new people that you can learn about through playing the game :)
PLEASE DO NOT use the '@' symbol with the username otherwise @ginabot is probably going to go crazy!
So just something like this is fine:
| abh12345 | amariespeaks | bashadow | bengy |
Then you repeat until you have completed four rows like so (but choose different names):
| abh12345 | amariespeaks | bashadow | bengy |
| charisma777 | dylen | haedre | kryptocek |
| laurawhite | simplymike | tonyr | nonamegirl |
| whaledreams | rupok | mr-mike | noganoo|
Or you can go to the Markdown Tables Generator (http://www.tablesgenerator.com/markdown_tables) if you like something fancier.
| abh12345 | amariespeaks | bashadow | bengy |
|---|---|---|---|
| charisma777 | dylen | haedre | kryptocek |
| laurawhite | simplymike | tonyr | nonamegirl |
| whaledreams | rupok | mr-mike | noganoo |
And if you are artistic then there's also nothing stopping you from creating an image as well... see previous contest entries here:
- https://steemit.com/makesteemitgreat-again/@fibrefox/newbiegames-bingo-a-new-way-to-make-connections-and-have-fun
- https://steemit.com/makesteemitgreat-again/@fibrefox/steemit-bingo-game-2-make-connections-and-have-fun
NEW RULES
To add some more excitement and variation to this game compared to the two previous games, two new rules have been introduced:
- OPTIONAL - You can nominate one of the squares to be replaced with @apolymask / @davemccoy thus giving you two chances for that one square by putting an '!' in that square. This is to acknowledge the great work that these two have done for @ifc and @newbiegames respectively, but also for being excellent role models for Steemians striving to make a difference and help others in the community.
- OPTIONAL - You can nominate one of the squares to be replaced by the 10th name drawn (which could be the same as the name that you have chosen) by putting an 'x' in that square. This will allow you to be able to tick a name off by the 10th move at the spot of your choice unless the name that you have originally chosen has already been drawn.
Register your entry
Place a link of the post that has your card in the comments section of this post before the cut-off period (which is when this post expires). In the mean time you can visit the people on your bingo card and drop them a nice comment on their post or chat to them on Discord.
Drawing of the names
When all the entries are in, I will create a post for the first game titled "Steemit Bingo Game (#)" and will randomly pick a name out of the list of followers of the @ifc acount until someone manages to 'BINGO'.
You can see the process I use in the first game here:
https://steemit.com/makesteemitgreat-again/@fibrefox/steemit-bingo-game-1-winners-announced
PRIZES
For the entries that are first to 'BINGO'
The winner(s) of the game will share in the SBD generated from the post with half going to @ifc. This will be transferred to their account and posted in the comments section to ensure transparency and fairness of the competition. I will also provide an update during the contest with additional prizes that I am planning to award.
Register your entry NOW and see you in a week's time for the second draw of Steemit Bingo!
https://steemit.com/makesteemitgreat-again/@davemccoy/steemit-bingo-game-3-my-entry
Thank you for another great bingo game! I love what you guys do at @newbiegames... And what a great partner to have in @apolymask... I am honored to be next to him in your latest twist! Thank you very much and I hope people have lots of fun with it... Here is my entry for the Play 4 a Newbie Challenge:
| artgirl | charisma777 | bashadow | crypto-econom1st |
| fibrefox | grizzman | herbertholmes | kryptocek |
| laurawhite | iexplore | haedre | x |
| kathylee | plankton | megan93 | nonamegirl |
My entry is on behalf of Play 4 a Newbie Challenge. All proceeds will go to a newbie Prize Pool and hopefully you will get other players to join in your game too!
Thanks for the nice words. ._. And.. Likewise! Glad to be next to the great davemccoy. :)
Glad that you two are honored to be in each others' company :)
:)
From the looks of things the play4anewbie initiative is going really well! I hope this will be a nice boost for both @newbiegames and @ifc :) Thanks for playing and good luck!
I just did it to establish another model that we can use in the future... I think it is going well, some things I would change, but overall it seems to have decent enthusiasm... We are on the 6th day already, which is good for this place :P
This sounds really interesting and fun!
Also that's awesome you're helping out the IFC as well! It's much appreciated! :)
Here's my entry
https://steemit.com/newbiegames/@apolymask/my-entry-to-the-steemit-bingo-game
Thanks for playing! I hope that this will introduce more people in @newbiegames to @ifc (and vice versa). Both are great initiatives on Steemit started by great people :)
Thanks for having me! :D And for the nice words. And yeah, that'd be cool! I love your initiative and efforts to help support these communities that help newcomers and just others in general. It's refreshing in a world of what often seems like people who are only out for themselves in a sort of "king of the hill" mentality.
Here is my ENTRY
My entry is on behalf of Play 4 a Newbie Challenge. All proceeds will go to a newbie Prize Pool and hopefully you will get other players to join in your game too!
Hi @gracefavour, always lovely to see you around when the Steemit bingo game is on :) Also very happy to see you supporting the play4anewbie challenge! Good luck with this round :)
Thank you so much @fibrefox,the bingo game is fun and i like it, i hope i win :)
And here is my entry BINGO IFC
My entry is on behalf of Play 4 a Newbie Challenge. All proceeds will go to a newbie Prize Pool and hopefully you will get other players to join in your game too!
Thanks for playing, and great to see so many familiar faces here :) I have to really pick up my game in the IFC as well :p
My entry for bingo!!
Thanks for your entry! I hope I don't get too many responses because I still have a lot of catching up to do on IFC :p But it is nice to be able to see familiar names/faces both from @newbiegames and @ifc! It just means more of @davemccoy and @apolymask to go around :D
My Entry to bingo game 3
https://busy.org/@jan23com/bingo-in-steemit-game-3
This is different :) Not really sure how it works :) But it does spread name around for people to see and wonder who they are.
I am not really sure how it is going to work either :D But if you are wondering who those people are I'd drop by their post and say hi - everyone on @newbiegames and @ifc are friends :) Thanks for playing and good luck!
Hope this is right
https://steemit.com/contest/@hayzer93/steemit-bingo-game-3-entry
It's bingo and we are all just trying to have fun and get to know each other better, but you've got it spot on! If you want to use the optional 'x' or '!' symbols for a twist to normal bingo rules :)
Hello there! I already followed IFC :) And here's my entry. :)
| davemccoy | kathylee | mr-bike | megan93 |
| leeart | simplymike | laurawhite | nonamegirl |
| artgirl | sandrina.life | organicgardener | phil917 |
| jlordc | dylen | hayzer93 | jameszenartist |
It's great that you are already following IFC so you know all the good things about it :) You have many of my favourite people on your bingo card, and some that I probably need to get to know better!
Oooh, bingo with a twist! I like it!
There is so much twist to it that I don't even know if you can call it bingo :D
Better take cover, the traditionalists are going to come for you because of this hard fork!
Is this from a Halloween Special episode of the Simpsons? I am trying to think of which one it might be?
Yes, I think it is one of the halloween special episodes, I can't remember which one though. There are so many!
So we make a blog for this and then link it here?
That's right, the blog entry will just be your bingo card and the link is just so I can find your entry :) I learnt from participating in the IFC that you have to make it easy for the people running the contest :p
This is awesome!!! Now to find my bingo card!!!! Good luck everyone!!
It is only a matter of time before I introduced the people from @newbiegames to @ifc (and vice versa), I just didn't realize it was going to take this long :p
I managed to get my entry up. I hope I didn’t do anything wrong for the new rules...
https://steemit.com/newbiegames/@simplymike/steemit-bingo-game-entry-join-the-fun-and-win
My entry is on behalf of Play 4 a Newbie Challenge. All proceeds will go to a newbie Prize Pool and hopefully you will get other players to join in your game too!
My team 💪 : @hermannsol, @curatorcat, @chels, @barski, @gracefavour
I am not sure how the new rules will work out but it is always fun to experiment :D Your entry looks fine and it looks like you are going to be quite busy with your contest as well so thanks for dropping by and playing!
I couldn’t get Steemfollowers to work, so I had to use the Discord channel to find the names of participants - lol
I’m curious about how the new rules will change the game :0)
I normally just go to the account and click on followers if the number of people isn't too large (otherwise you have to click through the different pages), but that works as well :)
I am hoping that it means that people are not just putting names on a card but they can apply some strategies to influence the result differently, but who know how it will turn out :D
I just found out today you could click on ‘followers’ in the header to see the list of followers. Has that feature been there all the time? Please tell me it is a new feature! 🙄
BINGO! Here is my entry! Good luck everyone! And great job @fibrefox for promoting both the @ifc and #play4anewbie
https://steemit.com/contest/@iexplore/steemit-bingo-game-3-my-card-join-in-and-meet-new-people-bingo
Great to see you here again and I can see lots of great names on your bingo card. I hope they will bring you good luck and thanks for supporting all these great groups!
Thank you for putting this together! This is becoming a popular game!
No problems ;) As long as people still find it enjoyable and useful I will continue to do this!
Thanks for organising this @fibrefox. This is my entry post.
Looks like there is at least another @crypto-econom1st among us so I should really go check out this blog. @wrath-of-grapes also sounds very interesting as I am a John Steinbeck fan. You have @tonyr on your card twice which is not against the rules but may or may not increase your changes of winning :)
Oops, an error I didn't catch. But I'll leave both of them up on the card this time around. I hope @tonyr is a lucky guy!
Looks like I'm a bingo number 😀
Or did I understand it incorrectly?
Yes, you have featured on a few people's bingo cards :D Keep an eye out for the next bingo game and you can be playing as well!
Managed to get my entry up:
https://steemit.com/newbiegames/@newbiegames/newbiegames-entry-for-fibrefox-3rd-bingo-game
Lots of very good names on the list and great to see that many of the people from @newbiegames are also involved in the IFC too :)