What's going on?

We're playing a site-wide game of CISCO (BINGO) for prizes provided by several sponsors. The game starts on 2/6/2012 and ends when all the prizes are claimed.

What's BINGO?

Welcome, you must be foreign or under 70. Check out the BINGO WikiPedia page to see all the details but here is a excerpt from the site for brevity:


We are only recognizing straight horizontal, vertical and corner-to-corner lines as winners. No postage stamps, four corners, or other variations.

How do I play?

Each registered forum member has a unique user id, that number is used as the random number generator seed to generate that user's unique (probably) CISCO card. Watch the "Numbers" section of this post every morning (US Central time zone) for the new number to be announced. Post up "CISCO!" when you get 5 numbers (or 4 plus the free spot) in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. It's that easy.

To find your forum user id, look at the URL when viewing your profile. It will read something like "http://www.networking-forum.com/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=2" where 2 is the user id.

Take that user id and plug it into this URL to see your game board, "http://www.networking-forum.com/bingo.php?uid=2" obviously replacing 2 with your user id.

Sponsors/Prize Table

Cisco Press
print or ebook of your choice (does not include libraries, videos, and simulators) - Project2501 (info sent to Cisco Press)
print or ebook of your choice (does not include libraries, videos, and simulators) - rafi (info sent to Cisco Press)
print or ebook of your choice (does not include libraries, videos, and simulators) - rc172 (info sent to Cisco Press)

Boson
$50 voucher to boson.com (expires 60 days after award date) - 1KrazyFool (voucher provided)
$50 voucher to boson.com (expires 60 days after award date) - davidrothera (voucher provided)
$50 voucher to boson.com (expires 60 days after award date) - srg (voucher provided)

IPExpert
8 hour vRack session. Winner's choice. - mlan (voucher provided)
Online quizzer on IPexpert.com. ROUTE VOD - Mendlar (voucher provided)
Online quizzer on IPexpert.com. CCNP Security - ristau5741 (voucher provided)

CablesandKits
$75 store credit to cablesandkits.com - echo465 (voucher provided)
$75 store credit to cablesandkits.com - firecatt007 (voucher provided)

Rules

• Any member found to be using multiple accounts for the purposes of claiming prizes will be disqualified, their accounts permanently banned, and shunned from the community. For life.
• First come, first serve. If you get a BINGO from the number announced on day 8, yet you don't post up that you won until day 88 and all prizes are gone then you are out of luck.
• One prize per player.
• Players can not hold this site (Amoeba Solutions LLC) or the game's sponsors accountable. We're just trying to have fun and give some stuff away so if you don't win, join us in the next contest.
• The game details, rules and prizes can change at any time.

Called Numbers

S41
S44
C48
C58
C46
S35
C9
I30
C7
C8
S45
C56
C52
C12
S43
C57
I19
C51
C50
C13
O64
O67
O62
S33
C15
C59
C1
C53
S31
O65
I25
S39
C5
O70

BINGO! Oh wait.... way premature. Thanks for creating another contest Steve

Always the proactive site admin. <3

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- Pete

Your spos to say "CISCO"!!!

Im ready to stomp you clowns at some bingo!!

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http://blog.movingonesandzeros.net/

awesome. got my card ready to roll.

And the first number is....S41.

I need a new card, mine is broken

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The best part about telling UDP jokes is I don't really care if you get them or not.

Same here. So close though.

I actually have S41 (bingo.php?uid=2)! Too bad I can't win...

Off to a baaaaad start. Can I haz your board Steve?

I got the free space !!!!

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Tips of the day:
- так много вопросов, так мало времени
- Elle est ce qu'elle est, et vous faites ce que vous avez à faire
- The human mind is the ultimate creation invention.
- "Emergency Belkin. $40........................Boom."

The spot where I assume S41 would have been is the free square

I am using the back of the printed out square though to do subnetting by hand, so something good is coming of this even if I do not win something

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Networking is much like making love to a beautiful woman
Slide your equipment in to the rack, Stick your plug in the socket, and if you have done it right at the end everyone is happy

Another S, S44.

killing me Steve. killing me.

sweet, I'm on the road to winning! 1 down, potentially 7 more to go

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The best part about telling UDP jokes is I don't really care if you get them or not.

I got that one too!

Got nothing - draw another

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“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal, a commitment to excellence, that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” – Anonymous

No winners yet? You guys aren't trying very hard.

There's a contest on? You should start a thread about that.

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blog.brokennetwork.ca

Oooohhh I didn't realise this was a creative thinking outside the box Bingo, I was playing normally

In which case BINGO x 2

1 for printing out the sheet
1 for the first number
1 for the second number

I shall now proceed to use overly complicated maths to prove that the world is in fact square and just by opening this thread we are all winners

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**Edit**
It appears the math is too complicated that even uploading it as an image caused it to implode on the internet

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Networking is much like making love to a beautiful woman
Slide your equipment in to the rack, Stick your plug in the socket, and if you have done it right at the end everyone is happy