BINGO
(Note: this version does not include a complete set of instructions.)

Submitted by Mary Romaine, Brownsville II

Directions for adapting Bingo game to program on Pan American country.

  1. Buy or borrow a regular bingo game. There must be enough bingo cards for each table member or guests to play.
  2. Do research on the country of your choice. Gather 75 short facts about the country.
  3. Type or write fifteen facts on each of five pages to correspond to the letters in bingo. For example, Under the letter "B" you would find fifteen numbered items. (see example)
  4. The caller calls out the numbers just as in bingo but in addition she reads the short fact or item of information. Since the game is repetitive the items will be repeated many times during the course of the 3 to five games played and many will be remembered. If you do not wish to be repetitive, compile other facts.
  5. The rules for winners are the same as regular bingo that is horizontal, diagonal, line, or all four corners.
  6. Prizes may be small items representative of the country, as a pound of coffee, bananas, a small flag, and plants native to the country.

 

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UNDER THE "B"

  1. Bogata is the Capitol of Colombia.
  2. July 20th is Independence Day in Colombia.
  3. Colombia is the only nation on the continent with major ports on both the Atlantic and the Pacific.
  4. The Museo del Oro or Gold museum in Bogata has 36,000 gold objects from the pre-Colombian era.
  5. The major language is Spanish.
  6. The Andes Mountains reflect the fragmenting and isolating geography.
  7. The Colombian Anthem is "0 unwithering glory, immortal joy.
  8. The flag has 3 horizontal stripes-yellow, blue, red, the top is yellow and is twice as wide as the other stripes.
  9. The metric system is used.
  10. Colombia has 23 national Universities.
  11. The official name is "Republica de Colombia"
  12. The head of state is 'the president-
  13. At least 1,500 known species of birds have been observed.
  14. Coffee, bananas, and petroleum, are important exports.
  15. Aproximately forty percent of the people are illiterate.

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UNDER THE "G"

  1. Area is 439,800 square miles
  2. Population is 26,730.000
  3. Language is Spanish
  4. 49.Curency is the peso
  5. Coffee is a principal export
  6. Fuels are exported
  7. Textiles are important exports
  8. Copper and uranium are important exports
  9. Bogata is the capital
  10. Colombia is central to cocaine traffic
  11. Colombia is a processor and distributor of cocaine.
  12. Colombia distributes cocaine from Peru
  13. Colombia distributes cocaine from Bolivia
  14. Recently discovered coal deposits in the Guajira peninsula adds to the already ample reserves
  15. Religion is Catholicism

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