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.

100 pts
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Spot a Hungarian sausage

Find a Hungarian sausage (kolbász, especially the red paprika-spiced ones) at a deli counter or street stall. Photograph the loops.

Bingo Budapest
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250 pts
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Spot a hurling stick (camán)

Find a hurling stick (camán) in a sports-shop window or as a GAA souvenir. Photograph the curved wooden stick.

Bingo Dublin
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100 pts
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Spot a hygge candle

Find a lit candle on a café table or shop window, the daytime Danish hygge ritual. Photograph the flame.

Bingo Copenhagen
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100 pts
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Spot a Jack Daniel's bottle or sign

Find a Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey bottle or neon sign. Photograph the bottle.

Bingo Nashville
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200 pts
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Spot a jade (pounamu) carving

Find a pounamu (NZ greenstone / jade) pendant carving in a shop window. Photograph the carving.

Bingo Queenstown
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75 pts
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Spot a jamón leg

Find a whole jamón ibérico or serrano leg hanging in a bar, deli or tapas joint window, hoof and all. Photograph the leg with the carving stand below.

Bingo Madrid
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200 pts
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Spot a jazz musician on the street

Find a jazz musician playing on Royal Street, Frenchmen Street or Jackson Square. Photograph the musician.

Bingo New Orleans
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200 pts
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Spot a John Rylands Library reading-room window

Walk to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on Deansgate. Photograph the gothic exterior or the famous reading-room interior (no flash inside).

Bingo Manchester
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200 pts
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Spot a Joyce or Wilde statue

Find the seated James Joyce statue on North Earl Street or the lounging Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square Park. Photograph the writer.

Bingo Dublin
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200 pts
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Spot a Kafka reference

Find a Kafka reference: the Kafka Museum facade, the rotating Kafka head statue, a "Metamorphosis" cockroach mural, a Kafka quote in a window. Photograph it.

Bingo Prague
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100 pts
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Spot a kanelbolle (cinnamon bun)

Find a Norwegian kanelbolle (large cinnamon roll with pearl sugar) in a bakery window or on a fika plate. Photograph the swirl.

Bingo Oslo
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200 pts
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Spot a kapsalon dish

Find a kapsalon (Rotterdam fast-food dish of fries, döner meat, salad, sauce and grilled cheese) on a takeaway counter. Photograph the box.

Bingo Rotterdam
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150 pts
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Spot a Karelian pie (karjalanpiirakka)

Find a Karelian pie at a bakery or market hall counter: a rice-and-rye open pastry, usually with egg butter on top. Photograph the boat-shaped pie.

Bingo Helsinki
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250 pts
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Spot a Karlsplatz Otto Wagner pavilion

Find one of the two Otto Wagner Jugendstil pavilions at Karlsplatz (green-and-white iron, gold sunflowers). Photograph one.

Bingo Vienna
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200 pts
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Spot a Käsekrainer with mustard

At a Würstelstand order a Käsekrainer (cheese-filled sausage). Photograph the cut open sausage with cheese oozing.

Bingo Vienna
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250 pts
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Spot a Kawarau Bungy Bridge view

Drive to Kawarau Bridge and find the AJ Hackett bungy site. Photograph the bridge with a jumper if you can.

Bingo Queenstown
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200 pts
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Spot a Kazimierz Jewish heritage facade

Walk into Kazimierz and find a heritage shopfront with old Polish or Yiddish lettering. Photograph the painted sign.

Bingo Krakow
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100 pts
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Spot a kibbeling or lekkerbek paper

Find a paper cone of kibbeling (battered fish chunks) at a fish stall. Photograph the golden bites.

Bingo Rotterdam
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100 pts
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Spot a kiwi-bird shop sign or souvenir

Find a kiwi-bird image on a sign, souvenir or T-shirt. The national bird. Photograph it.

Bingo Rotorua
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250 pts
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Spot a klezmer band reference

In Kazimierz find a klezmer band poster, a fiddle in a shop window or a klezmer venue. Photograph the reference.

Bingo Krakow
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200 pts
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Spot a Klimt Kiss reference

Find a Klimt Kiss reference: museum-shop reproductions, posters, prints, Belvedere souvenir bags. Photograph the gold-and-couple image.

Bingo Vienna
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100 pts
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Spot a klobása sausage

Find a grilled klobása (Czech sausage in a bun) at a street stall. The Wenceslas Square stalls have them. Photograph the sausage with mustard.

Bingo Prague
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100 pts
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Spot a koru fern spiral

Find a koru (unfurling fern frond) carved on a building, painted on a wall or as a souvenir spiral. Photograph the spiral.

Bingo Rotorua
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150 pts
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Spot a koulouri vendor

Find a street vendor selling koulouri (sesame-crusted bread rings stacked on a cart or pole). Photograph the rings.

Bingo Athens
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