Category — Blogger Bingo

Welcome back to another round of Blogger Bingo. Once again, the prize will be 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 is now closed. Since sign up is closed, you will need to wait until the next round to sign up to play.

The Point of Blogger Bingo: ideally, this game will spread around blog traffic, hopefully increase commenting, promote understanding between people, build community, and celebrate blogging in general. 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?

These bloggers are currently signed up to participate in this round of Blogger Bingo.

1. Stirrup Queens
2. Once a Mother
3. to conception and beyond
4. I’m a Smart One
5. MeAndBaby’s Blog
6. All Aboard the Pity Boat
7. still life with circles
8. Not a Fertile Myrtle
9. Dragondreamer’s Lair
10. Baby Smiling In Back Seat
11. Life, Family and the Pursuit of Sanity
12. My Pathway to Motherhood
13. Wistfulgirl’s World
14. A New Wheeler
15. Weebles Wobblog
16. Slaying, Blogging, Whatever…
17. In One Ear
18. Heeeeere Storkey, Storkey!
19. In Due Time
20. Where the Green Grass Grows
21. Three is a Magic Number
22. Baby Hungry
23. karlinda
24. Two Is A Family: The Adoption Chronicles
25. Elana’s Musings
26. onewhounderstands
27. Project Kjetil
28. Estes Family of 3
29. Alana-isms
30. Hoping for Another Little One
31. It’s called a varico-what?
32. Maybe Baby?
33. The Journey to 40 and Beyond
34. Semi-fertile
35. Strickly Southern
36. Under Construction: Building our Family
37. The Root of all Evel
38. Adventures in Adoption
39. A Virtual Hobby Store and Coffee Shop
40. Romancing the Stork
41. Tally’s Place
42. Heather Mohr’s Blog
43. Hoping for a baby Smith
44. ReFashioned Threads
45. The Read Thread
46. A Journey Through Motherhood
47. Life with Endometriosis and PCOS
48. IF In Big Sky Country
49. She’s Country
50. Production, Not Reproduction
51. The list is now closed

How to Play (yes, it seems complicated at first, but if you read carefully, you will see how simple it is in practice):

1. 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.
2. 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 not be added to the list until the code is in place.
3. The Participant List can be found above these directions.
4. 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.
5. Starting October 19th, 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 made you sad.”
6. 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 made you sad written after April 22, 2008.” The date matters.
7. 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 written after April 22, 2008,” you will look for a post after April 22, 2008 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.
   an style=”font-weight: bold;”>All posts need to come from someone on the participant list, it cannot come from a blog that is not participating.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Free Space. Those who bought themselves a free space by leaving the five comments (this option closed on September 13th) prior to sign-up for this round can use that free space anywhere they wish on the board. They can use it to replace a category whether or not it has been called.
12. Don’t worry if you can’t participate in this round. 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 four things that I think are fun: using blogs to get people to think and feel, ensuring that people leave comments, promoting understanding between people, and creating 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):

We have a winner for the first round of Blogger Bingo (with an honourable mention to Once a Mother):

Updated:

The first round of Blogger Bingo is about to get underway tomorrow morning and so it seemed like a fine time to go through the rules one more time. Just to explain how the game is played because it’s really very simple.

1. Every morning, I will pick a card from the pack that has one of the categories found on your game board written on it. I will leave the category of the day in that permanent post found at the top of my blog that has a link to the current LFCA and current BlogHer post and general status. If I can’t post for some reason, there will be a note there directing you to the person who is posting the clue for me that day (I’m not sure how long the game will last–it could technically last 24 days!).
2. In addition to the category, I will also give you a date range for the post, such as “before August 15, 2009” or “after September 2008.”
3. You will use the participant list (which is super easy to find because I replaced one of the header buttons with a “Blogger Bingo” button–look up at the top of the blog, under the title banner–with a link to the post that holds the list) to find a post that matches the category. For instance, if the category is “a post that made you gasp written after August 3, 2009”, you will click around until you find something personally gasp-worthy that was written after August 3, 2009 from any blog on the participant list. You will bookmark that post or hold the url somewhere because you will need to send it in if you get bingo.
4. Leave a comment on the post that tells the person you read their post (in other words, something beyond “great post!”).
5. Once you use a post from a person’s blog, you can’t use that blog again for another square. It spreads out the love.
6. When you get five in a row, email me with Bingo! in the subject line. In the email, list the name of the category, the url of the post, and why you think it fits (you can get creative here).
7. The first person to do so wins. Except that everyone is a winner in my heart.

Oh–one thing I never said, but is certainly something you could do. If you don’t have time that day to search for a blog entry, at least stop by and write down the category of the day somewhere and look up two days worth the next day (or save up five days worth and do it on the weekend). I will erase the category of the day after 24 hours so you’ll need to write it down somewhere if you want to look up the posts later. Does the person who finds the entry every day have a leg-up? Sure. But the point of the game isn’t to make yourself anxious. And the timestamp on your comment doesn’t need to be from the day the category was listed; the timestamps just need to be a bit spread out to show that you didn’t wait until you were close to bingo to go backwards and comment.

Anything I didn’t answer? Questions you still have? Check here too because I went through a bunch of what ifs towards the end of the post.

It’s your last chance to sign up–the list closes tonight at 11 p.m. (EST) and then the game begins…

Moved the questions up from the comment box to answer them:

1. What if for one of the catagories I find a post in the right date range and from the list, but on which I had already previously commented? Is that comment good enough [assuming it was not a “great post” type of comment]?

Yes, that should definitely suffice. Because even an old comment would mark that you were there and read the post in full.

2. What about international players – the date stamp is it going to be affected by our time zones.

I don’t think that will be a problem. The timestamps don’t have to be on a certain day. They just have to be spread out so that someone doesn’t run backwards and only leave comments if they think they’re close to bingo. And when I say a date, it’s the date on the post–which means that you go by the time/day of when the post was written even if it would have been the next day or the day before where you are living.

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?

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.

1. Stirrup Queens
2. Late for a Very Important Pregnancy
3. Production, Not Reproduction
4. Confessions of A Cocktail Napkin
5. Weebles Wobblog
6. Baby Smiling In Back Seat
7. Building Heavenly Bridges
8. I’m a Smart One
9. Just Another Mommy Blog
10. Infertili- T & A
11. Opposite of Oops
12. A Little Sweetness
13. Just Multiply by 2
14. Sippy Cups Are Not For Starbucks
15. You expect my uterus to do what?
16. Mommy Someday?
17. Making Me Mom
18. Dragondreamer’s Lair
19. Relaxing Doesn’t Make Babies
20. I Digress
21. My Pathway to Motherhood
22. My Little Drummer Boys
23. Maybe Baby?
24. Baby’s Breath (tales of a brown-eyed-girl)
25. Okaasan Mommy and More
26. Hobbit-ish Thoughts & Ramblings
27. In Due Time
28. Woman Anyone?
29. My Life In Stirrups
30. Mrs. Spit Spouts Off
31. Conception Deception
32. Our Someday Family
33. One Who Understands
34. Elana’s Musings
35. IF You Only Knew
36. Once an Infertile
37. Semi-fertile
38. Twists of Fate
39. Thinking Miracles
40. Sparkly Things Distract Me
41. Perchancetodream
42. happy-go-lucky
43. Scarlet Baby
44. Justamere IVF
45. Our Family Beginnings
46. From Chaos Comes Clarity
47. Creating Motherhood
48. Yes, We’re One of THOSE Couples
49. Tantrums and Tequila
50. Child of G-d
51. Not Just About Cancer
52. Parenthood for Me
53. Alana-isms
54. Trying to get Knocked up by Another Man
55. Rottweilers Ate My Laptop
56. Three is a Magic Number
57. TheNewLifeOfNancy
58. We got hitched. We bought the 4 bedroom house. Now what???
59. Raining Raining
60. MeAndBaby’s Blog
61. All Aboard the Pity Boat
62. The Life and Times of KitVonD
63. Life, Family and the Pursuit of Sanity
64. HopeinBriarrose
65. In One Ear
66. Getting There
67. Infertility Instability
68. The Mis-Adventures of a Modern Day Farmer’s Wife
69. Beautiful Mess
70. All Grown Up
71. Blurbs By Jennifer
72. My fertility journey with PCOS
73. BillieGirl
74. Slaying, Blogging, Whatever…
75. Exile In Kidville
76. Isn’t TTC Supposed To Be Fun?!
77. Life After Infertility & Loss
78. Not a Fertile Myrtle
79. All My Peccadilloes
80. Run Amok Amok
81. Once A Mother
82. Reproductive Jeans
83. A Page In My Book
84. Are we there yet?
85. Ambivalent Womb
86. The Unfair Struggle
87. What a Shame about Me
88. Salvageable
89. Hold My Hope
90. Three of a kind working on a full house…
91. little birdhouse
92. Confessions Of A College Angel
93. Birds and Squirrels
94. Project Kjetil
95. The Light at the End of Our Tunnel
96. The Queen’s Rambles
97. I Won’t Fear Love
98. PCOS Blogger
99. Life with Endometriosis and PCOS
100. Sorry; the list is now closed. A new round will open soon.

How to Play (yes, it seems complicated at first, but if you read carefully, you will see how simple it is in practice):

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. The Participant List can be found above these directions.
4. 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.
5. 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.”
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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).
11. 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.
12. If all goes well, I will do this game again soon after we have a winner.

Okay, so you’ve waited to sign up until you read all the rules–good for you. Here is a second space to sign up for this current Blogger Bingo round. Remember, the list will close at August 23rd at 11 p.m. (EST).

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.

More questions? Didn’t find it on the longer post about Blogger Bingo? Then email me…

Otherwise known as everything you didn’t know you’d ever want to know about Blogger Bingo. Welcome to the information page for Blogger Bingo, a game created by Mel from Stirrup Queens (um…this blog). I actually created the game in August of 2009, but I backdated this post in order to have a permanent place to answer questions about the project.

You have probably landed here because you’ve seen the icon on a person’s blog. In order to jump to the current open game, please click here.

I’ll begin by explaining the general rules for how the game is played. Underneath that, I’ll answer further questions.

1. 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 (this will make sense when you are looking at the open post for the current round) 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. When the game is open, this space is linked to the sign up form. Sign up usually takes place for a few days and closes when the game begins.
2. Place the provided 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.
3. Starting on a preset date, I will pull one card each day. The card 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.
4. 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).
5. 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. The current participant list is always listed on the main post for the current round.
6. 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.
7. Once you have found a post on a person’s blog, you cannot use that blog again. 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.
8. 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).
9. 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.
10. If all goes well, I will do this game again soon after we have a winner.