RiverkernB
California
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This "official Snatcho Bingo facilitator"  hasn't a clue about the best way to play. Just volunteered because the job title (I made it up)is so cute and to do whatever needed done. I'm not good at making choices, so it will be up to all who've played it before to decide how it will be done. It does sound like a fun ice-breaker and we're looking forward to meeting everyone.
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Davydd
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In regular bingo you have winners and losers. At B4 playing your own numbers that you wrote down was closer to playing bingo. Some could walk away with multiple gifts by the luck of the draw. The gifts were supposed to remain wrapped as I understood it so snatching was based on size, weight, shape, attractiveness of the package, or maybe some guessed or inside knowledge of what the gift was. By luck of draws especially if your numbers were called early you could have ended up tappped out as others decided to snatch from you. All you could do was passively sit by and since the gifts remained wrapped you had no idea what your fortunes were. At the end the gifts were opened but it was nearly impossible to know what they all were as people dispersed.
B5 was not quite a gift exchange nor was it truly bingo. True under the rules you walked away with a gift (not a bad thing) but during the course of the game your gift desires ebbed and flowed. As each persons name was called from a random pick they got the chance to pick from the table or take a gift from someone else. Since the table picker unwraps his/her gift and shows it to all, everyone sees and knows every gift. Then the fun begins. Obviously, some gifts are neater or perceived in value over others so snatching begins or people take their chance at the table. The skill is keeping track of who has what gift and the timing of being the last (third) snatcher. If there were not a snatch limit the game could theoretically go on forever if one gift was left at the table and unlimited snatching continued. As some gifts expired after three snatches the strategy changed and people holding desired gifts without much attention all of a sudden came back into play. The limit forced someone to alter strategy and choose the last table gift over what was known to still be in play. There was a lot more suspense, interaction, envy, surprise, strategy, cunning and intrigue in regard to the gifts during the game. Every participant was potentially active until the end. To me it was more of an interactive game than just passive luck of the draw. I played both ways and that's how I viewed it.
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AsheGuy
Raleigh, North Carolina
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Julie, The "B Out West" logo for the Utah rally is very clever and another great play on words.
Regarding snatcho bingo rules, I've played it many times and it is always fun by any set of rules. The point of the game is to have a good time and the value of the gifts ensures that they are not the object of the game. However, the rules used at B5 eliminate the sometimes uneven distribution of gifts that some could see as unfair and it still provides a good time for all.
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juliev
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It's up to Riverkern to decide which rules to play by, since she has graciously volunteered to be the facilitator. I've never played it before (althouh I have played a version of it that uses $1 bills instead of gifts). It'll be fun either way! The idea is just to give everyone an ice breaker and have a good time.
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Long_for_the_road
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I enjoyed watching the B5 version - it seemed like great fun. My guess is the other versions are good too. But I agree with Davydd, that the B5 version seemed to have lots of action and interplay.
Riverkern - thanks for faciliating this - whatever you choose will be fine with me.
Julie - Thanks for putting this all together, and I also like the B Out West moniker.
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kenuck
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JMHO but I agree with Davydd that the B5 rules were more fun and interesting. Also, with about 65-70 participants, if each put in 5 numbers that's almost 350 draws!
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lilysmom
Eagan, Minnesota USA
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People chose 5 numbers between 1 and 40, so there were not 350 draws. All the people who had written down the number "5" got to stand up and take a prize. The game ended when all 40 numbers had been announced.
I am sure it is fun either way. I just wanted to clarify that there were not 350 draws.
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Davydd
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Actually B4 was just 3 numbers as I remember. At B5 Jim Tewell announced how we were going to play and that was that. He mentioned we were going to open the gifts when we selected them from the table. I didn't think about it a lot until this discussion but it was actually quite a bit different as I described. No matter how we play I have already selected our bee-youtiful gifts and they will be in play if Sally (Salianron) doesn't stalk me before hand.
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ennajean
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Have our B snatcho gifts bought just need to get them wrapped. Looking forward to what Davydd has that might be of interest to Sally.....
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Salianron
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HUMMMM Bee stalking sounds like a great idea  I currently have a large Bee handpuppet on the dash of Artie!
Hummm more bees to come? Margaret (ashguy) have you been to Tuesday morning to purchase a snatcho prize lately????
I guess I better get busy and find a great snatcho prize!!!
We have a few more things to do to Artie before we leave! The one I dread the most is opening,cleaning and oiling the awning. 
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