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Muffpub — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:52:46 -0800

Metafilter bingo?

After this thread, some people wanted to see some Metafilter Bingo, including me. It would totally be more fun than BoingBoing Bingo anyway. Some (great) previous ideas are here and here. Anyone else want to take a crack at this? I'm too new and unimaginative but I know this has potential. Bonus points for something actually playable, or examples of "winning" threads, maybe?

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:07:30 -0800

bondcliff's is pretty good but personally I would have put Ann Coulter under the pony.

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:08:57 -0800

So would Ann.

By: East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:12:58 -0800

This is all brilliant! But also you should come to the Metafilter iSketch room and celebrate my as yet non existent 1000th favoreet.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:15:47 -0800

Dawkins/Hitchens/Atheism

By: empath

empath — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:16:11 -0800

82 links to videos by a band no one has heard of.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:16:36 -0800

somebody died today.

.

By: empath

empath — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:18:06 -0800

The top 5 google search results + wikipedia entries on a random topic.

By: bingo

bingo — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:26:26 -0800

Yahoo!

Oh, wait. What are we talking about?

By: hermitosis

hermitosis — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:33:49 -0800

bingo!

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:42:06 -0800

LOLXIANS
My Googlefu is strong
19 links to YouTube Videos all of which have some keyword in common
OMGXIANS
We're living in a police state, or we will be soon
Triple post within a two day period
Obituary-filter
Self-link

By: thehmsbeagle

thehmsbeagle — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:42:15 -0800

It must include: BRUCE REFUSES TO BACK DOWN.

By: Muffpub

Muffpub — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:49:40 -0800

this is good, but is there a way to translate "things that pop up on MeFi often" to actual Bingo? Am I just hard to please? Should being "hard to please" be on the board? what about rhetorical questions?

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:52:04 -0800

Someone makes a trivial and chatty metatalk thread, and at least one person points it out and complains about it.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:53:10 -0800

How do you play it, anyway? Random threads? The front page?

By: dersins

dersins — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:53:20 -0800

this is good, but is there a way to translate "things that pop up on MeFi often" to actual Bingo?

Arrange them in a 5 X 5 matrix?

By: jonmc

jonmc — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:57:40 -0800

Yahoo!

No, Metafilter. Try to keep up.

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:00:31 -0800

MetaFilter:

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:12:06 -0800

An fpp containing 5 links that you will refuse to click on due to lack of explanatory text

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:33:05 -0800

Mystery meat post (per Afroblanco)
Post that talks about something without ever identifying it, by always using a pronoun.
"It's my first post; please be gentle"
First post, deleted because it's a 4-year-old double
One word post/one-link with the word telling nothing whatever

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:36:30 -0800

Post that relies on the post title as part of the post prose, not realizing that the post title is not displayed, rendering the post completely incoherent

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:38:14 -0800

Two Minute Hate post

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:51:46 -0800

Okay, here is how Boing Boing Bingo works and MetaFilter Bingo should work... out of a group of topics larger than 25 (preferably closer to 75), the Bingo webpage randomly places topics on a bingo card format so that everybody gets a different card (I put a comment in the BBBingo creator's blog requesting that he release the code behind the page so we wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel). Starting at an agreed-upon point in time (Midnight PST?), we start marking off the squares that match the topic or content of the day's posts. First MeFite to get 5 in a row wins... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! A jolly time is had by all.

some suggested Bingo Boxes:

Somebody's Top 10 or Top 15 List
Somebody's Top 50 or Top 100 List
Pop Culture References form When Poster Was Under 16 Years of Age
ALARMING TREND SHOWN USING QUESTIONABLE STATISTICS
OutrageFilter/NewsFilter about a Single Shocking Cort Case!
Something intended to annoy or offend most of the members of MetaFilter
High Culture (automatic if poster is madamjujujive or hama7)
ObitFilter (.)
A 1995-looking personal website with some cool content in it... somewhere.

By: googly

googly — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 18:55:13 -0800

With acknowledgments (and apologies) to bondcliff...

AskMe Bingo!

===================================================
|   Mac   | Song I  |  Xmas   | Book I  | "Down   |
|   vs.   |heard in | present |read when|  Baker  |
|   PC    |Starbucks|         | I was 9 | Street" |
===================================================
|Favorite |Favorite |Favorite |Favorite |Favorite |
|  song   | movie   | website | podcast | charity |
|         |         |         |         |         |
===================================================
|  Dead   |  Chat   |  Free   | Astro   |  Mid    |
|  body   | filter  | Square! |  turf   |  life   |
| disposal|         |         |         | crisis  |
===================================================
| Does he |Does she |  Better | Should I| Should I|
|  like   |  like   |   sex?  |  dump   |  dump   | 
|  me?    |   me?   |         |  her?   |  him?   |
===================================================
|  Is     |  Will   |  Do my  | Can I   |   Am    |
|  this   |  this   |homework | not pay |    I    |
|  legal? | kill me?|         |this tax?|  crazy? |
===================================================

By: bondcliff

bondcliff — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:14:16 -0800

Nice, Googly, especially since "will this kill me?" covers CanIEatThisFilter and IShouldReallySeeADoctorFilter.

I'd also add "Long, rambling, relationship post that doesn't seem to really ask a question but makes everyone think you probably deserve whatever hell you've gotten yourself into but for a change we'll be polite and attempt to offer you some sort of advice even though we really just want to tell you to get a clue, dump him/her, and up your dosage before re-joining the rest of humanity."

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:34:07 -0800

Ah, AskMe Bingo:

Agree with me and tell me I'm right
Chatfilter
What should I get my cat for Christmas?
Help prove to me that this quack remedy really works
My landlord is screwing me over
How do I get more traffic for my web site?
Help me prove that my confirmation-bias conclusion is really true
Do my homework for me
How do I fake sincerity?
How do I raise my Google ranking?
What cell phone should I buy?
Rantfilter (irate rhetorical question)

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:38:14 -0800

We could have a Metafilter game closet and add MeFi Bingo to it!

By: slogger

slogger — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:38:35 -0800

There would need to be a LOLZBOINGBOING square

By: weapons-grade pandemonium

weapons-grade pandemonium — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:59:28 -0800

No, no. Not "Bingo". Game ends when someone shouts "WENDELL!"

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:14:07 -0800

"There, fixed that for you."

"You keep using that word. I do not think that word means what you think it means."

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:15:59 -0800

Oh, now if you want to get into MeFi comment bingo...

By: melorama

melorama — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:20:35 -0800

More AskMe bingo:

- What external hard drive should I buy?

- Lame "of course there's [more inside]" cutesy-ness that looks stupid and nonsensical in RSS readers.

- (comment bingo) This American Life, The Sound of Young America or Radio Lab

By: Mitheral

Mitheral — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:36:12 -0800

wendell writes "some suggested Bingo Boxes:"'

Don't forget BushFilter, "Trivial things happening in NYC" and USA_ElectionFilter. You could group them under USAFilter and always make it show up in the centre instead of the "free space" square.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:25:12 -0800

Ha! So it was written, so it came to pass.

Askmefi bingo suggestion: "How can I get out of paying this speeding ticket?"

By: romakimmy

romakimmy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:59:40 -0800

The AskMe bingo Free Square should be 'Male Answer Syndrome' instead.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:39:59 -0800

Oh, Mefite comment bingo would be the best. Some more suggestions:

Circumcision derail.
We're all a little racist deep down.
Your favourite x sucks.
You know who else did x?
Metafilter strapline quote.
James Brown is dead?
Eponysterical.
Fixed that for you.
.
I'd hit it
This x, it vibrates?
Pepsi Blue

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:43:25 -0800

Lynsey, that picture of yours looks like a game of MeFi Monopoly?

I've got three houses on jonmc and a hotel on languagehat. Anybody replying to their posts is going to be paying me out bigtime.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:48:51 -0800

wendell: "I put a comment in the BBBingo creator's blog requesting that he release the code behind the page so we wouldn't have to re-invent the wheel"

Not necessary. We could just use the code I wrote for the 24 bingo I created for last season. No pictures, but then again that's how MeFi is.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:04:12 -0800

Voila. MetaFilter Bingo.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:12:08 -0800

Suggestions for AskMe comment bingo:

Confirmation bias
Supertaster
DTMFA
Depression
Asperger's
Firefox
Move out, now
See a doctor
See a lawyer
See a therapist
Disputing the question's premises

By: Sailormom

Sailormom — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:00:37 -0800

Wow Lynsey, that looks like a lot of fun.

By: sneakin

sneakin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:30:22 -0800

Plutor FTW.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:10:03 -0800

More AskMe Bingo:
How do I make my Iphone do this thing?
What is wrong with my cat?
I had a one-night stand, now what?
Do I have to reformat my hard drive?
Name my business/cat/website
Suggestions for mix tape?

Metafilter Bingo:
Ron Paul
This artist/photographer/athlete is hawt
Flash game link

Metatalk Bingo:
Why was my thread deleted?
Put back the thread where I made a witty comment and people favorited me!
What does (Matt, Jessamyn, Cortex, the cabal) have against me?
If you don't put my thread back, I will chop off my arm/leave Mefi/kill myself
pony request
Mefi's own!
Meetup pics

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:16:21 -0800

Plutastic.

By: fiercecupcake

fiercecupcake — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:41:22 -0800

AMIRITE?

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:20:49 -0800

Guys, that old MeFi game was posted so long ago that I now can't remember who posted it. I thought it was so cool at the time that I saved it to my hard drive, figuring that it would fade away from the internets, and sadly, googling for it and not finding it proved me right. So, kudos to you, whoever you are, who created the Metafilter board game of long ago!

By: Electrius

Electrius — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:58:53 -0800

This will [pun withe "end well"]

By: breezeway

breezeway — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:16:29 -0800

Anyone here ever notice hot dogs look like dicks in buns?

By: bonobo

bonobo — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:37:36 -0800

Dear AskMetafilter,

I never thought it would happen to me. I had a one-night stand with:

a.) an ex-
b.) a zombie
c.) a farm animal
d.) all of the above

I do not want to hear:

a.) see a doctor
b.) get therapy
c.) DTMFA
d.) all of the above

The only responses allowed are:

a.) You go girl/guy!
b.) You should totally be able to make mad cash money from this!
c.) I would so totally date you|shag you|give you mad cash money for this!
d.) all of the above.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:48:06 -0800

I've got three houses on jonmc

heeelp me...

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:56:19 -0800

I represent the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild, the Lollypop Guild...
I represent the Lollypop Guild, and I welcome you to MetaTalkLand.

And, by the way, the members of the Lollypop Guild are on strike over compensation for New Media...

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:57:53 -0800

Oh, and isn't it cool the way jonmc's toes curl up? (But the striped socks... tacky.)

By: bonobo

bonobo — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:13:35 -0800

Whoa, wendell. Lookit the COLORS! Did you see the way "Money" synch'ed right then? Whoa...

By: wendell

wendell — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:51:51 -0800

Any more Oz references and I fear we'll segue into "Africa" by Toto...

By: dersins

dersins — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:03:37 -0800

Fuck that noise, Wendell. "Rosanna" was much better.

By: bonobo

bonobo — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:24:28 -0800

[Can't help myself. I'm running with the Wizard of Oz + Dark Side of the Moon derail...YouTube of the (what-I-perceived-as-marvelous-at-the-time but dude-you-had-to-be-there) "Money" sequence.]

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:43:58 -0800

Last Post!!!

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:42:52 -0800

Pish. Hardly.

By: breezeway

breezeway — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:03:16 -0800

You'll sprain your bladder, kid!

By: dersins

dersins — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:49:12 -0800

I don't understand what you're talking about, but I'll take your word for it.

For now.