It sounds like everyone needs to make their bingo cards to be like an I Spy quilt with all the squares being fussy cut to make each block so there's NO confusion on what each person is looking for. Sorry a few bad apples had to spoil the good time for everyone else!

We played fabric bingo at our retreat this weekend and they had the fabric cards and used pictures of the fabrics on the bingo "ball" and we could see the fabrics. It was fun in our group. Each gane we each bet 5 2-1/2 strips and the winner won them all. It was fun. We used buttons to mark the fabrics. This way no doubt which fabric was being called. Pictures were great idea.

There definitely needs to be some way to make this fair for everyone. If I'm still going a year from now (they do this every year--I've only been a member for about six months), I'm going to get the rules clarified ahead of time. Either that or just skip the meeting. It could be fun, but when it gets me wound up like this, I just shouldn't participate.

We played quilt bingo at my guild also. Afterwards, we collected all the blocks and made a raffle quilt. You would not believe how pretty it turned out. I believe the "game" came from Fons and Porter.
Barb

heres what we did, each player had only one card with the names being drawn...they had to use a sticky tag on each block with their interpretation of the fabric. yellow flower, red dot, blue strip etc. Then there was no way they could change it. Worked...they make cute charity quilts when your done with them.

We did this at our quild, too, but I don't recall there being prizes of any value, so winners and losers didn't matter so much. Maybe that's the answer. And we made the blocks into charity quilts as well!

That would work. I wonder if I could get my guild to do that next year. Nobody is particularly friendly, and since I've only been a member six months, I doubt I have much influence. Maybe a year from now I will. And if that's how they want to play the game, I can get behind it. I just don't think it's fair for a few insiders to play that way while the rest of us follow conventional rules.

Our prizes weren't particularly valuable. Most had an inexpensive pattern in them, a fat quarter, and a couple of pieces of candy. But the value wasn't the point. It's just no fun to play a game like Bingo and lose all the time while the same people keep winning all the time. The woman who came to our table to "teach us how to play" said that it was okay to cheat at this game, but for the "big money" then no. I wasn't sure what the difference was. In my book, cheating is cheating regardless of the price of the prize.

Now that I think about, they DID have to "read" off the squares, just like with regular Bingo. Then if there was a question of whether something was red flower, or yellow background for instance, the group decided if they were right. I guess that's why I don't remember it being a problem.

I started to join a guild....as a provisional member.It took just 3 mos to see it wasn't anything I wanted to belong to.It'd take a book to explain,but favoring some members/ignoring others was one example.I'm way past the age of acting like a naughty 5yr old,but it's their guild.It's not just guilds either.We've seen some funny going ons at diff orgs.JMO