Welcome to the first ever game of Blogger Bingo. The prize for this round is a $20 gift certificate to Barnes and Noble. Please read the directions below in order to understand how the game is played and sign up if you wish to participate. Sign up closed on August 23rd at 11 p.m. (EST). Once sign up closes, you will need to wait until the next round to sign up to play.Why Blogger Bingo? Why not? And I need something to battle the late summer blues and this game will spread around blog traffic, hopefully increase commenting, and celebrate blogging in general. And I felt drawn to the idea of making up a new game. And even if you don't win the gift certificate, you will definitely win increased blog traffic (read below to see how this will happen). So...it's win, win?
The Participant List
These bloggers are currently signed up to participate in this round of Blogger Bingo. If you would like to be added to the list, keep reading below the list.
- Stirrup Queens
- Late for a Very Important Pregnancy
- Production, Not Reproduction
- Confessions of A Cocktail Napkin
- Weebles Wobblog
- Baby Smiling In Back Seat
- Building Heavenly Bridges
- I'm a Smart One
- Just Another Mommy Blog
- Infertili- T & A
- Opposite of Oops
- A Little Sweetness
- Just Multiply by 2
- Sippy Cups Are Not For Starbucks
- You expect my uterus to do what?
- Mommy Someday?
- Making Me Mom
- Dragondreamer's Lair
- Relaxing Doesn't Make Babies
- I Digress
- My Pathway to Motherhood
- My Little Drummer Boys
- Maybe Baby?
- Baby's Breath (tales of a brown-eyed-girl)
- Okaasan Mommy and More
- Hobbit-ish Thoughts & Ramblings
- In Due Time
- Woman Anyone?
- My Life In Stirrups
- Mrs. Spit Spouts Off
- Conception Deception
- Our Someday Family
- One Who Understands
- Elana's Musings
- IF You Only Knew
- Once an Infertile
- Semi-fertile
- Twists of Fate
- Thinking Miracles
- Sparkly Things Distract Me
- Perchancetodream
- happy-go-lucky
- Scarlet Baby
- Justamere IVF
- Our Family Beginnings
- From Chaos Comes Clarity
- Creating Motherhood
- Yes, We're One of THOSE Couples
- Tantrums and Tequila
- Child of G-d
- Not Just About Cancer
- Parenthood for Me
- Alana-isms
- Trying to get Knocked up by Another Man
- Rottweilers Ate My Laptop
- Three is a Magic Number
- TheNewLifeOfNancy
- We got hitched. We bought the 4 bedroom house. Now what???
- Raining Raining
- MeAndBaby's Blog
- All Aboard the Pity Boat
- The Life and Times of KitVonD
- Life, Family and the Pursuit of Sanity
- HopeinBriarrose
- In One Ear
- Getting There
- Infertility Instability
- The Mis-Adventures of a Modern Day Farmer's Wife
- Beautiful Mess
- All Grown Up
- Blurbs By Jennifer
- My fertility journey with PCOS
- BillieGirl
- Slaying, Blogging, Whatever...
- Exile In Kidville
- Isn't TTC Supposed To Be Fun?!
- Life After Infertility & Loss
- Not a Fertile Myrtle
- All My Peccadilloes
- Run Amok Amok
- Once A Mother
- Reproductive Jeans
- A Page In My Book
- Are we there yet?
- Ambivalent Womb
- The Unfair Struggle
- What a Shame about Me
- Salvageable
- Hold My Hope
- Three of a kind working on a full house...
- little birdhouse
- Confessions Of A College Angel
- Birds and Squirrels
- Project Kjetil
- The Light at the End of Our Tunnel
- The Queen's Rambles
- I Won't Fear Love
- PCOS Blogger
- Life with Endometriosis and PCOS
- Sorry; the list is now closed. A new round will open soon.
- Sign up to participate. If you are not on the list, you will not be eligible to win. You will need to provide a blog name, blog url (yes, you need to be a blogger to participate), the number for the card (see below) which you wish to use, and an email to use to contact you if I have questions. The categories on all the cards are the same though the order varies. Unfortunately, like IComLeavWe, you cannot participate if your blog is password protected. And another unfortunate thing is that sign up closed on August 23rd.
- Please place this code on your blog and keep it up until the end of the game. It will help connect people to the project and show other bloggers who are participating that you are on the list. You will be sent a reminder to remove it when a winner has been named. You will not be added to the list until the code is in place.
- The Participant List can be found above these directions.
- You randomly chose a bingo card colour during sign-up. Scroll down to the bottom of this post and click on your card. Then print out a copy so you can have it at home. Feel free to take notes on it. You cannot switch cards after signing up.
- Starting August 24th, I will pull one card each day. Each card has one category on it and that category will be listed in the top, permanent post on my blog (the one that contains a link to the current issue of the LFCA). I know, tricky isn't it? You will need to keep on top of things in order to have the best chance of winning because the card will be erased after 24 hours and a new one pulled. As I said, the card states one of the categories that you see listed on the bingo cards at the bottom of this post. For instance, I may pull a card that states: "find a blog post that mentions coffee."
- In addition to pulling a card, I will also list a date. The post you are looking for comes before, after, or during that date (more below). For example, now the command might state: "find a blog post that mentions coffee written after April 22, 2008." The date matters.
- Read blogs that are contained in the participant list to look for a post that matches the card of the day. For example, if I pull the card that says, "a post that made you sad before August 15, 2009," you will look for a post prior to August 15th that made you sad on any of the blogs on the participant list. You may not list a post from your own blog; it needs to come from another person. All posts need to come from someone on the participant list, it cannot come from a blog that is not participating.
- Leave a comment on that post (even if it is an old post) and then keep track of the url of that post at home (bookmark it somewhere). When you call Bingo, you will need to turn in the posts you used to "mark your space." Please leave a comment that shows that you read the post. Just writing, "nice post!" does not count as a comment.
- Once you have found a post on a person's blog, you cannot use that blog again during this round. In other words, if you use a post from my blog as your "a post that made me sad" you cannot use another post from my blog the next day when a new card is drawn.
- When you get five in a row, email me with the word "Bingo!" in the subject line. In order to win you will need to provide the five blog posts that fit the cards drawn as well as prove that you left comments on those posts (and have the comments be left on different days--not clumped together timestamp-wise after realizing you have Bingo).
- The first person who emails me with a winning card is the winner. The winner will be listed at the top of my blog in the space that normally holds the daily category.
- If all goes well, I will do this game again soon after we have a winner.
You have a lot of questions about Blogger Bingo? They are hopefully answered here. Scroll down to get to the Q and A session. It addresses what to do if you are reading this post after the game has begun, how I've deterred cheating from happening, and what to do if you can't find a post that day.
The Point: this game fulfills three things that I think are fun: using blogs to get people to think and feel, ensure that people leave comments, and create community.
The Bingo Cards (click on the card you're using and print out your own copy for home-use. Ignore the four cards you aren't using--you can only use one card and it is the one you listed on the sign up form):
More questions? Didn't find it on the longer post about Blogger Bingo? Then email me...
29 comments:
What an awesome idea! I am so excited! I love BINGO! You've done a beautiful job of creating it - the cards look great! Thank you for giving me something to preoccupy myself with while I wait for things to get better! ;-)
How in the world do you find time in the day to think up and maintain such brilliant blogger projects? If I haven't ever said so before, I love how nearly everything you do here promotes inclusion and reaching out.
This might be exactly what I need Ms. Mel.
Once again...brilliance in spades.
I don't want to play, I just wanted to say that I heart you. You are an amazing woman. :)
How did you know that I was trying to figure out how to get through my 2ww? Great timing! :)
Love this!! I'm trying to get back into blogging and commenting because I miss it so. This is exactly what I need. You are amazing!
At first I was completely confused with all the rules, but as I kept reading I figured it out (just like you said we would). So creative! It looks like fun!
WOW!! You never cease to amaze me!
This is totally going to give me an excuse to get online every day. Thank you! You = genius!
I am not sure if I am going to play this first time around, but regardless... This is such a fun, awesome and creative idea! Way to go! :)
Woo hoo! How fun! I can't believe how creative you are!
Continue. To. Amaze.
not sure I can stay on top of it this round, but it sounds like an intriguingly brilliant idea.
I don't understand step #5 with the different cards. that sounds kind of complicated? maybe I'm just tired and easily confused today.
A really clever idea, excellent..
You are my favourite genius, I swear! Love this idea with the power of a thousand suns, but it's more of a November game for me, time-wise. We can haz again later?
LOVE IT!!!!!
you are amazing, seriously!!!!
So totally genuis.
Next week is probably not good timing for me to start something like this, but boy, am I tempted. If not this time, perhaps another. I love bingo.
You're a genius, Mel. : )
Brilliant idea! Sounds like a blast! I'll be impatiently waiting for 8/24! ;-)
Oh I *love* this idea!! But my parents are going to be in town for two weeks, and I just don't think I'll have the time to participate. Or maybe I'll have more time, since they'll be playing with the kiddo... oooh, let me think on it....
seriously. in total awe of your brain.
p.s. is there any way to ask participants that use blogger to allow for comments from people that don't have blogger accounts? I mean I have one, but it doesn't link back to my own blog.
i'm in! what is "show and tell" in this context?
Mel, once again, YOU ROCK. Loving your latest game/idea...super cool! :)
This really sounds like big fun and I am looking forward to it. Kudos for such a creative idea!
Fun! I'm in!
Mel, I love how your mind works. Obviously I am sitting this one out. I love 2009 but it is not going to be the year of the blog for me. Hope everyone has fun, though.
Bea
I expected to enjoy this but what I'm amazed by is how for the brief time I'm searching blogs and trying to find a clue, my mind is not focused on the things IF related that normally clutter my mind. Thanks Mel
Oh I hope you do another round because I would LOVE to get in on this!!!
missed the cut off so how you do this again - sounds like too much fun
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