Anyone run a community bingo before?

This sounds amazing! I would love to hear how it went!

We did an engagement sweepstakes last year (October actually) to drive enrollments where every action = a point and more points = more entries in our randomizer spinner, and youre spinning for a $100 GC. The engagement requirements were minimal: like a post = 1 entry, subscribe to the product updates = 1 entry, a post/reply to a post = 1 entry.

We didnt get massive traction from it, but I think its because of other reasons that we are still finetuning. If it helps, this was our post overviewing the sweepstakes that our CSMs would point users to:
 

I have no experience with this, but I love this idea and might ‘steal’ it from you for our Christmas Campaig that I am planning to run in our Community… My biggest concern and thing I would need to think about/check out HOW do you know when some-one has BINGO… how can they proof it? Did you already think about that ​@JohnK. 

Hey ​@Sanne van Opstal-Brakel, yeah that is a good point! I’m def leaning more towards a series of tasks for Bingo instead of making it more like a scavenger hunt with clues. I was thinking of something similar to what ​@Laurenseife did in regards to participation earns you 1 virtual ticket for a drawing. I plan to do 4 days of different activities, that each provide 1 additional ticket for the drawing if you participate.

The tasks to get Bingo would need to be easily verifiable and not time intensive.

Here’s what I’m thinking:

1. Intro yourself in the new member thread.
2. Fill out your Community profile.
3. Reply to this post with one tip from our Getting Started in the Community guide.

Plan would be to launch and post the Bingo on Tuesday and give people until Friday to complete. That way it’s not driving people to rush through it. I thought about adding a task related to engagement (post, reply to another’s post, etc) but I could see that generating low value answers and posts. I also want to make it on the easier side to get people to jump in on the fun.

The other activities would be even easier. Share a GIF related to your experience in this field, point out one issue for a fake customer scenario that will have multiple issues, and something fun and more off topic for the Friday post. Still trying to determine what that would look like.

​​​​​I think we’ll announce the winners in a Community post the next week. That way we can drive people to come back, and give me time to tally things up and do the drawing. 

Thank you everybody for the feedback, and if anyone else has some additional tips or insight, please share! 
 

I’d probably go with the action-based version rather than hiding emojis.

To avoid hurt feelings, I’d make everyone who completes the card eligible for a random draw rather than rewarding whoever finishes first. That keeps it fun without turning it into a race.

hi! we did this last year during our virtual community conference. We vibe coded the bingo game - an attendee would click a link to generate a new card, then they would mark the sessions they attended or the easter eggs they spotted with a digital “stamp”. At the end, when they had a bingo, they submitted their card to the app. Everyone who got a bingo got a small prize (though I don’t recall what it was… it’s been a year!).