City bingo challenges

A city bingo is a treasure hunt for the typical things that define a city or country. Walk the streets, tick off the bingo card by photographing what you spot, and see who completes it first. No fixed route, no time pressure, just looking around and laughing along the way.

250 pts
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Spot a Hacienda or Factory Records reference

Find a Hacienda club or Factory Records reference (the Hacienda apartments on Whitworth Street, FAC51 plaques, T-shirts). Photograph the reference.

Bingo Manchester
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150 pts
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Spot a haggis dish

Find haggis on a pub menu or plate (often with neeps and tatties, sometimes inside a battered fritter). Photograph the dish.

Bingo Edinburgh
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250 pts
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Spot a Hague Escher reference

Find an Escher reference: the Escher in Het Paleis museum facade, a poster of an Escher print, a tessellation pattern. Photograph the reference.

Bingo The Hague
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200 pts
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Spot a Hague Lange Voorhout statue

Find a sculpture on the Lange Voorhout (often an outdoor art exhibition). Photograph one statue.

Bingo The Hague
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250 pts
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Spot a Hague Royal Guard moment

Find a Royal Guard at the Noordeinde Palace gate or Paleis Huis ten Bosch entrance. Photograph the uniform.

Bingo The Hague
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100 pts
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Spot a Hague stepped gable

Find a stepped gable (trapgevel) on a Hague heritage facade. Photograph the staircase silhouette.

Bingo The Hague
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75 pts
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Spot a Hague tram (HTM)

Find a red-and-cream HTM tram on its route. Photograph one passing the Binnenhof or Lange Voorhout.

Bingo The Hague
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200 pts
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Spot a Hague tulip-bed in season

In April/May find a Hague tulip bed (parks, the Lange Voorhout, Westbroekpark). Photograph the colours.

Bingo The Hague
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250 pts
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Spot a hákarl shop

Find Icelandic hákarl (fermented shark) at the Kolaportið flea market or a deli display. Photograph the white cubes. (Sampling optional and not recommended.)

Bingo Reykjavik
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250 pts
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Spot a half-smoke at Ben's Chili Bowl

Walk to Ben's Chili Bowl on U Street and photograph the storefront with the half-smoke menu.

Bingo Washington D.C.
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250 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Beatles reference

Find a Beatles reference on the Reeperbahn or Große Freiheit (the Beatles came up here playing the Star-Club and Indra). Photograph a Beatles statue or plaque.

Bingo Hamburg
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75 pts
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Spot a Hamburg brick facade

Find a red-brick Hanseatic warehouse or office building (Speicherstadt or the Kontorhaus district). Photograph the brick patterning.

Bingo Hamburg
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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Christmas market or seasonal scene

In December find a Hamburg Christmas market on Rathausmarkt or Jungfernstieg. Outside the season, find any market stall with Hanseatic goods. Photograph the scene.

Bingo Hamburg
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75 pts
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Spot a Hamburg currywurst

Find a currywurst at a Hamburg Imbiss. Photograph the curry-powdered slices.

Bingo Hamburg
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100 pts
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Spot a Hamburg dock crane

Find a tall harbour container crane in the port. Photograph the cranes against the sky.

Bingo Hamburg
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150 pts
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Spot a Hamburg ferry (HADAG)

Find a yellow HADAG harbour ferry on the Elbe (it doubles as public transport with HVV tickets). Photograph one underway.

Bingo Hamburg
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250 pts
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Spot a Hamburg gable Kontorhaus

Find a Kontorhaus office building in the Chilehaus district. Chilehaus itself has the ship-prow corner. Photograph the brick prow.

Bingo Hamburg
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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Hummel statue

Find a Hummel statue (a colourfully painted figure of the Hamburg water carrier) on a street corner. There are dozens around the city. Photograph one.

Bingo Hamburg
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150 pts
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Spot a Hamburg sailor cap or maritime souvenir

Find a maritime souvenir shop with sailor caps, anchor pendants, ships in bottles, lifebuoys. Photograph the display.

Bingo Hamburg
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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Schanze graffiti

Walk into the Schanzenviertel and find a piece of street art or anti-gentrification stencil. Photograph the wall.

Bingo Hamburg
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75 pts
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Spot a Hamburg ship from the harbour

Find a container ship, ferry or tour boat in the Hamburg harbour. Photograph the boat with the cranes behind.

Bingo Hamburg
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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg ship-bottle (Buddelschiff)

Find a Buddelschiff (ship-in-a-bottle) in a maritime shop window. Photograph the miniature.

Bingo Hamburg
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250 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Sunday Fischmarkt stall

If it is a Sunday morning, find the Altona Fischmarkt with its loud sellers. Otherwise find a fish-shop window. Photograph the action.

Bingo Hamburg
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200 pts
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Spot a Hamburg Wasserschloss

Find the iconic Wasserschloss in Speicherstadt, the small red-brick tea-trader's house on the canal corner. Photograph the gabled facade.

Bingo Hamburg
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