Bingo Rules
To get a bingo card you need to request one in the relevent post for the upcoming episode. The bingo cards are in PDF fromat and you are advised to save your card onto your computer. The cards will be available for download for a week from the time they are generated. These cards are good for the Sunday Wednesday night broadcast, the Wednesday Kiddies broadcast or whenever you get to watch that episode of the show.
Once you have played then you can post your results in the episode Bingo Results Thread for that episode (which will be created Sunday Wednesday night). Part of the fun of bingo is sharing your results. This is also where you can make a claim for either a 5-in-a-line 'House' or a all-the-squares 'Bingo'. If you are making a claim you need to state what events you think are matching which square (and feel free to do this anyway if you are just posting your results).
To prevent cheating the first people to post a House or a Bingo for any given episode are the winners. While this sucks for the people who can't watch it at the first showing it means that there is only one 'call' per episode. In the event that noone gets a Bingo the winner is the person with the most squares checked that has not got a House.
Whenever you see an event named in a square, or see or hear any mention of something not marked as an event, put a mark in that square.
In the 'free square' you can specify and claim any option from the list. You do not need to decide what the free square is until you decide to use it.
If you have squares whose specifications overlap then you can only use any given event or comment for one square of those squares. For example a scene where Ianto brings in coffee can be used for 'Ianto gets coffee' or 'coffee' but not both at the same time. If Ianto is making the coffee while getting shagged by Jack then you can mark 'Ianto gets some' and 'Jack gets some' and either 'Coffee' or 'Ianto gets coffee'. If Ianto brings in the coffee and in a later scene they are drinking that coffee then you can check both.
Any disputed 'did it happen or not' calls will be put to the vote.
Players can 'buy' more than one bingo card by creating objects to use as prizes:
Icon = 1 card
Photomanip/Picture = 3 cards
Short Story = 3 cards
Long Story = 5 cards
Vid = 5 cards
Any prizes are exclusive to the bingo for 6 months from point they were submitted unless they are won and the winner chooses to release them.
[Added 26/22/06]
The sequence of clips shown under the opening titles and repeated each week do not count towards the bingo results.
Rules may be modified as new issues come to light.
Once you have played then you can post your results in the episode Bingo Results Thread for that episode (which will be created Sunday Wednesday night). Part of the fun of bingo is sharing your results. This is also where you can make a claim for either a 5-in-a-line 'House' or a all-the-squares 'Bingo'. If you are making a claim you need to state what events you think are matching which square (and feel free to do this anyway if you are just posting your results).
To prevent cheating the first people to post a House or a Bingo for any given episode are the winners. While this sucks for the people who can't watch it at the first showing it means that there is only one 'call' per episode. In the event that noone gets a Bingo the winner is the person with the most squares checked that has not got a House.
Whenever you see an event named in a square, or see or hear any mention of something not marked as an event, put a mark in that square.
In the 'free square' you can specify and claim any option from the list. You do not need to decide what the free square is until you decide to use it.
If you have squares whose specifications overlap then you can only use any given event or comment for one square of those squares. For example a scene where Ianto brings in coffee can be used for 'Ianto gets coffee' or 'coffee' but not both at the same time. If Ianto is making the coffee while getting shagged by Jack then you can mark 'Ianto gets some' and 'Jack gets some' and either 'Coffee' or 'Ianto gets coffee'. If Ianto brings in the coffee and in a later scene they are drinking that coffee then you can check both.
Any disputed 'did it happen or not' calls will be put to the vote.
Players can 'buy' more than one bingo card by creating objects to use as prizes:
Icon = 1 card
Photomanip/Picture = 3 cards
Short Story = 3 cards
Long Story = 5 cards
Vid = 5 cards
Any prizes are exclusive to the bingo for 6 months from point they were submitted unless they are won and the winner chooses to release them.
[Added 26/22/06]
The sequence of clips shown under the opening titles and repeated each week do not count towards the bingo results.
Rules may be modified as new issues come to light.