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.

That is a clever idea!

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.

There are those in every group. They play dumb or cutsie to bend the rules to their liking. I wouldn't play this "game" in the future either!

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.

Wow! That sounded like such a cool idea until I got to the end of your story. How sad that happened. Just reminds me of why I haven't joined the local quild.....

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.

See, I like this sort of thing. The quilts turn out pretty too. It doesn't seem like so many different colors and kinds of fabric could look good together; but somehow, they do.

I ?might? be tempted to play by the same rules that those cheaters were using! Make the playing field equal. But make sure you shout loudly so they will know that you are copying them!

We play bingo at the quilt club I go to but we use regular bingo cards And we win fat quarters until there all gone.