New Acquaintance Bingo

After a great conversation with a construction worker from west New York in the hot tub the other night, Pam and I stared talking about how many people from how many different places in America we were having the pleasure of meeting in our journeys. So, naturally, we decided to turn it into a game. New Acquaintance Bingo was thus born.

It's just like regular bingo, except instead of numbers, there are names of states in the boxes, and if we meet someone from that state, the box is checked off. Five in a row or four corners wins. Check out our cards:

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I just got a blank bingo card, randomly selected numbers between 1 and 50 and matched up the numbers with their corresponding state to create each card.

Two rules:

1) The person from the state must be someone we didn't already know starting on April 1st at 10pm PST.

2) The person must be met by both of us at the same time (so no cheating with "Hey Joe, my new coworker is from Delaware, you should really meet her!")

So that's our new, months-long game we're playing. We met some fine folk from Louisiana last night, but we're oddly still tied, because Louisiana happens to be in the same spot on both of our cards. Maybe a chance encounter in the hot tub tonight will yield some positive results.