Cheating at Fabric Bingo
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Your cards are adorable! If everyone makes their own card maybe they should be required to make a key for it so they remember what they intended each square to be. At our quilt retreats we play bingo. We each bring 20 2 1/2 inch by wof strips. For each game we turn in 2 strips. Then we play bingo with ordinary bingo cards. The winner of the game gets the pile of strips. It is fun and hard to cheat.
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Originally Posted by elkridgequilter
Your cards are adorable! If everyone makes their own card maybe they should be required to make a key for it so they remember what they intended each square to be. At our quilt retreats we play bingo. We each bring 20 2 1/2 inch by wof strips. For each game we turn in 2 strips. Then we play bingo with ordinary bingo cards. The winner of the game gets the pile of strips. It is fun and hard to cheat.
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We play a fat quarter bingo at retreat, there is a sheet with quilt block names on it available so you all have the same choices, & you make up your own bingo card by writing down which ones you like. You pay 1 fat quarter per card, no limit but it gets a little too confusing after 2 or 3. The caller has all the names from the sheet in the basket & pulls one each time. Depending on how many members participate there are fat quarter prizes for eg. the 1st line of bingo, then maybe a diagonal line, then maybe an x, then the grand finale is for a blackout card that wins the largest bag of fat quarters. It's fun, especially if all members have purchased their fat quarters, not so fun if some have brought some crinkled old piece they had at home....but each to his own.
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Great idea! I think this game has all kinds of benefits, and I really like the charity quilt aspect. They just sew them together with sashing, and they are nice quilts! But if people are playing by different rules it isn't fair.
I did make a key for mine by writing on the back seam allowance of any square that was ambiguous. It's not difficult. But, of course, if winning is the most important thing, then it serves you better not to create a key.
I did make a key for mine by writing on the back seam allowance of any square that was ambiguous. It's not difficult. But, of course, if winning is the most important thing, then it serves you better not to create a key.
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At Gulfport quilters in FL, we all made the quilt blocks and played Bingo at our quilting retreat. The next month, all the quilt blocks were turned into a beautiful quilt and given to the Senior center for an auction quilt.
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Originally Posted by Joanie Owen
At Gulfport quilters in FL, we all made the quilt blocks and played Bingo at our quilting retreat. The next month, all the quilt blocks were turned into a beautiful quilt and given to the Senior center for an auction quilt.
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