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.

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Spot a real beret

Spot a real beret worn by someone walking the street (not a souvenir-shop hat on a tourist costume photo). Take a candid photo.

Bingo Paris
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100 pts
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Spot a Real Madrid jersey

Find someone wearing or a shop window selling a white Real Madrid kit (or, brave choice, the red-and-blue of Atlético). Photograph the jersey.

Bingo Madrid
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50 pts
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Spot a red double-decker bus

Find a classic red double-decker on its route (the modern Routemaster or any TfL bus). Photograph it from across the road as it passes.

Bingo London
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100 pts
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Spot a red phone box

Find a classic red K2 or K6 telephone box. Most still exist in the centre (Covent Garden, around Parliament) even if barely used. Photograph one.

Bingo London
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100 pts
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Spot a Red Sox or Patriots kit

Find a Red Sox (B logo) or Patriots (blue-and-red) jersey. Photograph the kit.

Bingo Boston
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100 pts
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Spot a red telephone box

Find a classic K6 red telephone box in Manchester (Albert Square area). Photograph it.

Bingo Manchester
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200 pts
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Spot a reindeer reference

Find a reindeer reference: a Sami crafts shop window, reindeer meat on a menu, an antler souvenir. Photograph the reference.

Bingo Oslo
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150 pts
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Spot a reindeer souvenir

Find a reindeer souvenir or Sami-craft item: antlers, knife sheaths, reindeer-leather wallet, postcards. Photograph the souvenir.

Bingo Helsinki
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250 pts
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Spot a Rembrandt reference (his hometown)

Find a Rembrandt reference in Leiden (his birthplace): the Rembrandt statue near Weddesteeg, a poster of a Rembrandt painting, a museum sign. Photograph the reference.

Bingo Leiden
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250 pts
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Spot a Renaissance fresco facade

Find a building with painted Renaissance frescoes on the exterior facade (Borgo Albizi has examples). Photograph the painting.

Bingo Florence
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150 pts
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Spot a Retiro rowboat

Walk into Parque del Retiro and find the estanque (lake) with its rowboats. Photograph the boats with the Alfonso XII monument behind.

Bingo Madrid
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200 pts
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Spot a Reykjavik street art piece

Find a piece of Reykjavik street art (Selur the seal, large murals on Laugavegur, the Mokka Cat). Photograph the wall.

Bingo Reykjavik
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150 pts
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Spot a Reykjavik weatherproof jacket

Find a 66°North or Cintamani jacket on someone or in a window. Iceland's outerwear brands are everywhere. Photograph the jacket.

Bingo Reykjavik
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150 pts
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Spot a Rialto market stall

Walk into the Rialto fish or fruit market and find a stall with octopus, sardines or stacked vegetables. Photograph the catch.

Bingo Venice
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150 pts
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Spot a riverfront Mississippi view

Walk to the Moonwalk along the Mississippi and find the river with the Crescent City Connection bridge behind. Photograph the river.

Bingo New Orleans
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250 pts
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Spot a Rock Church (Temppeliaukio)

Walk to Temppeliaukio Church (the Rock Church) in Töölö. Photograph the copper-domed church carved into solid rock.

Bingo Helsinki
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200 pts
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Spot a Roman artichoke (carciofo)

Find a carciofo alla romana (Roman-style artichoke) on a trattoria menu or counter. Photograph the silver-green flower.

Bingo Rome
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100 pts
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Spot a Roman cobblestone (sampietrino)

Find a sampietrino, the small black basalt cube Rome's streets are paved with. Photograph a stretch of road close-up.

Bingo Rome
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200 pts
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Spot a Roman laundry line

Look up in Trastevere or Monti and find laundry strung between two windows across a narrow street. Photograph the line.

Bingo Rome
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200 pts
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Spot a Roman ruin in everyday use

Find Roman ruins built into modern life: a column embedded in a wall, a temple foundation under a building, a statue in a hotel lobby. Photograph the time-layered shot.

Bingo Rome
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200 pts
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Spot a Rotorua geothermal smelling stop

Find a viewpoint where the geothermal sulphur smell is strongest, like Whakarewarewa or Sulphur Bay. Photograph the steam.

Bingo Rotorua
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150 pts
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Spot a Rotorua geothermal steam vent

Find a steaming geothermal vent in Kuirau Park or along the lakefront. Photograph the steam rising.

Bingo Rotorua
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250 pts
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Spot a Rotorua haka performance reference

Find a haka reference (cultural performance poster, mural or video screen at a Maori venue). Photograph the reference.

Bingo Rotorua
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150 pts
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Spot a Rotorua I-SITE visitor centre

Find the Rotorua I-SITE visitor centre sign. Photograph the entrance.

Bingo Rotorua
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