February 03, 2005

Bingo

We're playing Bingo again at work. It's so much fun. Every employee received a Bingo card last week, and each day a new number is picked (with a bonus number on "Two-For-Tuesdays" and "Just-For-Fun-Fridays"). There are prizes for the first person to fill a diagonal, horizontal line, a vertical line, and four corners. After each of those four contests are won, we continue playing on the same card until someone fills his up. We actually programmed a database-driven Bingo board on the Intranet a few years ago and every time we play we dig the link up.

my bingo card

Unfortunately for me, i'm having a streak of bad luck. I'm 0 for 5. It doesn't take a math major to figure out that the odds of that happening are about 7:1 (although it doesn't hurt). That means 86% of our employees probably have at least one number by now. It's not as though i expected to get all the numbers so far (i know there's only a 0.24% chance of that ever happening); but one wouldn't hurt.

Posted by Matthew at February 3, 2005 07:05 AM
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I'm at 0 for 5 too, Matthew. It's disheartening. I've always seemed to be unlucky at bingo, though.

Posted by: Josh at February 3, 2005 08:42 AM

word.
bingo.
my mom plays bingo.
i find it boring.
until I win, of course.
i almost always win when i go bingo-ing with her.
but it's never a whole lot.

im bored.

Posted by: Amie at February 4, 2005 03:57 PM