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.

75 pts
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Spot a whisky bottle row

Find a whisky shop window or distillery display with rows of single-malt bottles. Photograph the line-up.

Bingo Edinburgh
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150 pts
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Spot a White House security barrier

Around the White House find the bollards, fences and barriers protecting the perimeter. Photograph the security.

Bingo Washington D.C.
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200 pts
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Spot a Wicker Park mural

Walk into Wicker Park and find a mural on Damen Avenue or a side street. Photograph the wall.

Bingo Chicago
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200 pts
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Spot a Wiener Kaffeehaus interior

Walk into a classic Viennese coffee house (Café Central, Café Sperl, Café Hawelka). Photograph the marble tables and bentwood Thonet chairs.

Bingo Vienna
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100 pts
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Spot a Wiener Schnitzel

Find a Wiener Schnitzel (breaded veal cutlet) on a restaurant plate, usually overhanging the plate with a lemon wedge. Photograph the cutlet.

Bingo Vienna
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200 pts
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Spot a wine bottle from Central Otago

Find a Central Otago Pinot Noir bottle in a shop or on a restaurant table. Photograph the label.

Bingo Queenstown
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250 pts
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Spot a wine window (buchette del vino)

Find a wine window (small medieval shutter in a wall, once used to serve wine directly to passers-by). Photograph the small wooden door.

Bingo Florence
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200 pts
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Spot a Witte Huis facade

Find Het Witte Huis, the 1898 art-nouveau tower on the Oudehaven (Europe's first skyscraper). Photograph the white tower.

Bingo Rotterdam
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200 pts
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Spot a worry bead shop

Find a shop selling komboloi (worry beads). Several streets in Plaka have dedicated shops. Photograph the strings hung in the window.

Bingo Athens
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200 pts
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Spot a worry bead string (komboloi)

Find a komboloi (worry beads) in a man's hand at a kafenio or in a shop window. Photograph the beads.

Bingo Athens
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75 pts
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Spot a Würst Imbiss

Find a Würst Imbiss (sausage stand) selling bratwurst or currywurst. Photograph the cart.

Bingo Munich
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200 pts
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Spot a Wynwood graffiti tag

Find a Wynwood graffiti tag or stencil on a back street. Photograph the wall.

Bingo Miami
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150 pts
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Spot a Wynwood Walls mural

Walk into Wynwood Walls or any Wynwood street and find a striking mural. Photograph the wall.

Bingo Miami
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150 pts
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Spot a yarn shop

Find a yarn shop with Icelandic lopi wool in dozens of colours (Handprjónasambandið on Skólavörðustígur). Photograph the wool stacks.

Bingo Reykjavik
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100 pts
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Spot a yellow Berlin tram

Find a yellow BVG tram running through Mitte or the eastern districts (West Berlin lost most of its trams after WWII). Photograph one in motion.

Bingo Berlin
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250 pts
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Spot a yellow Budapest Trabant

Find a Trabant (East German two-stroke car) parked or on a Trabant Safari tour. Hungary has plenty. Photograph the plastic body.

Bingo Budapest
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50 pts
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Spot a yellow NYC cab

Find a yellow taxi on a Manhattan street. Photograph it.

Bingo New York
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200 pts
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Spot a yellow San Francisco fog

Spot SF fog rolling in (often called Karl). Photograph the fog over the bay or city.

Bingo San Francisco
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150 pts
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Spot a yellow school bus

Find a yellow American school bus on a NYC street. Photograph the bus.

Bingo New York
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75 pts
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Spot a yoga mat or athleisure

Find someone carrying a yoga mat or wearing athleisure on the street. Photograph the lifestyle.

Bingo Los Angeles
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200 pts
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Spot a zapiekanka

Find a zapiekanka (open-faced baguette with mushrooms and cheese) at the Plac Nowy round building in Kazimierz. Photograph the long bread.

Bingo Krakow
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100 pts
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Spot a Þingvellir or Geysir poster

Find a Þingvellir or Geysir tour poster in a window, hotel lobby or tourism office. Photograph the poster.

Bingo Reykjavik
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200 pts
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Spot Affleck's Palace shop window

Find Affleck's Palace (the alt-culture indoor market in the Northern Quarter) and photograph a quirky window display.

Bingo Manchester
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150 pts
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Spot Akershus Fortress

Walk to Akershus Festning on the harbour and find the medieval-and-Renaissance fortress walls. Photograph the ramparts.

Bingo Oslo
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