Tonight we played Bingo. Its not ordinary bingo, its special. Not one game requires five squares in a row. No that's too easy for the experienced Bingo veterans out here. No, here you must create ornate shapes and diagrams. For instance, an arrow, a K, a star, or other letters or shapes. And because its so complicated they have special bingo machines to help you. Each machine is the equivalent of having ten bingo cards in front you. It keeps track of each one for you. Each machine already knows what shape you need to create. As the numbers are called, you just type in the one or two digit number, and hit enter. It marks that number on all of your cards. It will then tell you how many more numbers you need to finish that shape or symbol, and get a bingo. If you do get bingo it plays a song and flashes. That's the easy part. Here was our stressful part. The last game is for $1,250! All the other games range from $50 to $200 for the most part. With about 10 out of 14 games being a $200 prize each, and two are $1,000 or more, including this last one for $1,250.
Ok got it? Good, it took us a while to get it all straight. The last game is played on both the machine and paper. So they call out one number, and I have to type it into my machine, and dob it on 9 separate bingo cards, then hurry and dob Christine's 9 cards before they call out the next number, and determine whether or not I have created the shape that's required for this game. It was the most stressful ten minutes I have had since I have been on the Island. Cool huh.
Well we made it through and I actually won a game, but of course so did someone else, so I had to split the pot, but I did make a cool $25.00. We were the youngest people in the place by far and everyone kept asking if we were doing ok and getting the hang of it. Very fun. Every Tuesday and Sunday two blocks from our house. I feel an addiction to dobbers and lucky trolls coming on.
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