The last Saturday of every month the volunteer fire department in Hummelstown hosts BINGO! Mel and I have been talking about going for months now. And... we finally made it this past Saturday. Bingo Blast and a $1000 grand prize is what the sign out front said.
I know what most of you are thinking - that we would probably be the youngest people there. That's what we thought, too. I told Mel we just needed to find a grey haired elderly lady and pretend she was our grandmother.
But...we weren't the youngest people there. Families brought their children. We may have looked like a couple seeing as it was just the 2 of us and we did sit side-by-side sharing 12 bingo cards. We split a huge sheet that had 12 bingo cards on it. These sheets come in packets for the number of games. There were 26 or so games. Regular bingo and then every so often something more exciting like making an X or a T.
The catch that we didn't figure out until halfway through is that there are multiple ways to get Bingo aside from a straight or diagonal line. You can get a "postage stamp" - 4 in one corner like a box or 1 in each of the 4 corners and various other ways. We may have won earlier and not even have known. Which means... we must go back, because now our odds have increased since we know how to play. The $1000 at the end is a black out game. As you probably can guess - we didn't win that round either even though we knew what we were looking for.
oh well...there's always next time!
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