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Scavenger Bingo is a weird mix of Scavenger Hunt and Bingo

It’s designed to be accessible to anyone, regardless of age or technical knowledge, and to be rewarding and whether you do one challenge or all 90.

Unlike a traditional Scavenger Hunt, which focuses on you collecting objects, it focuses on doing and making, so challenges are normally evidenced using phone pics or videos (it is assume this content will be shared publicly once submitted).

The “Bingo” element uses a traditional UK bingo card which makes it possible to “win” with as few a 5 challenges complete, but you don’t get to determine which 5. The more sets of 5 (lines) or 15 (full houses) you complete, the more chances you have of winning.

Each one of you should have a standard UK bingo card in your swag bag (go see the AMA desk if not). On your card every number from 1 to 90 appears once and once only, these numbers directly relate to the 90 challenges we have. These are grouped into horizontal lines of 5 numbers (lines), 3 lines are grouped into a full house, there are six full houses on each card, and the order of numbers of random on each card.

The more lines and full houses you have, the more chances you have of winning prizes.

Rules

• Don’t be a dick.
• If you’re including anyone else for something, make sure you have clear consent first. Even for the little things.
• Players are expected to follow the Bsides Leeds Code of Conduct which is outlined in ⁠code-of-conduct
• You are responsible for your own actions. We neither endorse nor ensure you in any way, and anything dangerous or illegal should not be done and will lose you points and/or disqualify you. Silly is good, funny is great, being inconsiderate, anti-social, or putting yourself or others at risk absolutely isn’t!
• The competition will run through the day of the conference. Running from 09:30 to 16:00. All entries (and accompanying proofs) must be checked-in with the judges before 4pm. You can check-in multiple times, so we actually recommend you check-in your proofs periodically. Not only does this allow us to publish a leader board but it also avoids EVERYONE wanting EVERYTHING scored at the same time. If you arrive and other people mean you don’t get your stuff checked-in in time, you lose out. So check-in often and early.
• Teams are limited to a maximum of 4 active players.
• All items are up for interpretation. If in doubt, be artistic and make us laugh!
• All submissions must include your team name. You may need to clearly prove the authenticity of your submission and not something you grabbed off google images or generated with AI.
• Uploaded videos can only be a maximum of 30 seconds long. Please edit down any video submissions so they can be viewed by judges in 30 seconds or less.
• It is the judges discretion whether proof proved is adequate.
• The judges can be found on the ground floor next to the AMA desk. Some of the checking-in staff are switching to scav hunt judging in the afternoon so don’t worry in you can’t check stuff in early-doors
• Please don’t disappoint our Judges.
• Judges decision is final. The judges may not always be fair or reasonable, but they are always right.
• Please be patient while waiting for a submission to be corrected. Judges may be busy but we’ll review it as soon as we can.
• The BSides Leeds organisers and venue are not responsible for death, dismemberment, arrest, fire or eternal damnation.
• Any players caught breaking the rules will be issued a warning or ban depending on the severity of their actions and may result in individuals or teams disqualification from the competition.
• Each evidence may only be used once on one card. If the same team or another team submits on the same challenge it must be a different attempt (i.e. no multiple submissions of different pictures of the same attempt, used against different cards).
• Feel free to ask staff (via the AMA desk) for help if you’re stuck.
• Entries are only possible from in-person attendees.
• We expect to be able to make all evidence public!
• This is a game. Do your best, don’t get stressed, and have fun!

The Prizes

Both what the prizes and, and how they will be allocated, will be listed here later.

The Challenges

The Challenges can be viewed here (we’ll remove the password on the day)