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.

50 pts
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Spot a Brussels Métro M

Find the white M on blue Métro entrance sign. Photograph one at street level.

Bingo Brussels
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75 pts
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Spot a Brussels tram

Find a STIB-MIVB tram running through the city (the new orange-and-grey trams or older yellow-grey ones). Photograph one passing.

Bingo Brussels
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200 pts
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Spot a Brussels-style waffle iron

Find a waffle iron at work behind a stall window (the rectangular deep-grid Brussels iron, not the round Liège iron). Photograph the iron mid-cook.

Bingo Brussels
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200 pts
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Spot a Budapest funicular (Sikló)

Find the wooden Castle Hill Funicular (Budavári Sikló) climbing from Clark Ádám tér to Buda Castle. Photograph the carriage.

Bingo Budapest
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50 pts
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Spot a Budapest Metro M

Find a yellow-rimmed M sign at any Budapest Metro entrance. Photograph the sign.

Bingo Budapest
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75 pts
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Spot a Budapest tram

Find a yellow Budapest tram (tram 2 along the Danube has the best views). Photograph one passing a landmark.

Bingo Budapest
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250 pts
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Spot a Bunad national costume

Find a Norwegian bunad (traditional embroidered costume) in a tailor's window or on a passerby (especially around 17 May, Norway's national day). Photograph the bunad.

Bingo Oslo
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250 pts
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Spot a Burano colourful house

Take a vaporetto to Burano and find the row of brightly painted fisherman's houses. Photograph a colourful canal-front.

Bingo Venice
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200 pts
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Spot a Cadbury Dairy Milk wrapper

Find a Cadbury Dairy Milk wrapper (their factory operated in Dunedin for over a century). Photograph the purple.

Bingo Dunedin
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200 pts
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Spot a Cadbury hat or souvenir

Find Cadbury chocolate-themed souvenir or Jaffa-ball reference (the Dunedin Jaffa race). Photograph the souvenir.

Bingo Dunedin
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150 pts
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Spot a Caesars Palace statue

Walk into Caesars Palace and find a Roman statue. Photograph the marble.

Bingo Las Vegas
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100 pts
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Spot a calçada portuguesa mosaic

Find a stretch of calçada portuguesa, the black-and-white limestone-and-basalt mosaic paving that covers Lisbon's squares and sidewalks. Photograph the pattern.

Bingo Lisbon
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250 pts
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Spot a Cambridge bookstore

Walk into Harvard Square and find an indie bookshop window (Harvard Book Store, Grolier Poetry). Photograph the storefront.

Bingo Boston
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200 pts
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Spot a Camden punk

Walk into Camden Town and find punk fashion: leather, mohawks, Doc Martens, fishnet, the lot. Photograph the storefront or the look.

Bingo London
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100 pts
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Spot a canal boat tour

Find a flat-bottomed Bruges canal boat (Boottochten) on the Dijver or the Groenerei. Photograph the boat with passengers.

Bingo Bruges
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75 pts
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Spot a canal bridge with bikes

Find a canal bridge with bicycles parked along the railing. Almost every central bridge has them; photograph the lineup of frames over the water.

Bingo Amsterdam
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150 pts
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Spot a canal reflection

Find a still canal with houses reflected on the surface (early mornings and evenings work best). Photograph the mirror image.

Bingo Amsterdam
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100 pts
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Spot a canal-side flower box

Find a Utrecht canal house with a flower box on a window, balcony or doorstep. Photograph the floral burst.

Bingo Utrecht
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200 pts
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Spot a cannoli at Mike's or Modern Pastry

In the North End find a cannoli (Mike's Pastry, Modern Pastry, Bova's). Photograph the cannoli.

Bingo Boston
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250 pts
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Spot a Cardinal's hat shop window

Near the Vatican, find a religious-supply shop selling cardinal's red hats, bishop's crooks, rosaries (especially around Borgo Pio). Photograph the window.

Bingo Rome
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100 pts
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Spot a cargo bike (Christianiabike)

Find a Danish cargo bike (Christiania, Bullitt, Larry vs Harry) carrying kids, groceries or a dog. Photograph the front box.

Bingo Copenhagen
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75 pts
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Spot a Carlsberg sign

Find the Carlsberg green-and-gold logo on a bar awning, beer mat or shop window. The "probably the best beer in the world" tagline. Photograph the sign.

Bingo Copenhagen
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200 pts
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Spot a Casa da Música facade

Find the Casa da Música concert hall by Rem Koolhaas in Boavista, the white tilted block. Photograph the facade.

Bingo Porto
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250 pts
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Spot a Casa de Pilatos tile

Walk into the Casa de Pilatos courtyard and find the Renaissance-mudéjar tile walls. Photograph the tiles.

Bingo Seville
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