State bingo!

debemaks · Post by **debemaks** » Tue May 15, 2007 2:34 pm

***UPDATE*** - 15/05/07

I'm from

1 -

Italy
2 -

Germany
3 -

Austria
4 -

Finland

Crossmaster · Post by **Crossmaster** » Tue May 15, 2007 3:38 pm

I also want to join:

Until now 5 countries:

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Austria

Finland

and... of cause

Germany

jack_isidore · Post by **jack_isidore** » Tue May 15, 2007 9:37 pm

jack_isidore wrote:
jack_isidore wrote:
jack_isidore wrote:
jack_isidore wrote:
jack_isidore wrote:update:
5. spain
and the next update:

6. finland
here we go again...

7. belgium

after 8 months of suffering i'm happy to introduce

8. slovenia
time for:
9. italy

next:

10.

greece

AKVS · Post by **AKVS** » Sun May 20, 2007 9:04 pm

UPDATE to 7 countries in the original message.

j3paris · Post by **j3paris** » Mon May 28, 2007 7:52 pm

j3paris wrote:
j3paris wrote:3...

Belgium
Finland
France
Update: 4
Adding Germany

Update: 5
Adding Spain

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Mon May 28, 2007 11:51 pm

Well, at last I can join in with the hit statisticians.... with two recent hits, it's worth me posting here

Although, before I post, I would like to point out that there are more than 13 member states in the EU. OK, some of us don't use the Euro, but can you really achieve BINGO if you haven't hit Denmark, the UK, Sweden, etc. (sorry to be a pedant)

Well, anyway, here's my list:

1.

(rosalbissima, Antwerp)
2.

(thatsme-p, Erwitte)
3.

(chilblain, Viiala)

yli · Post by **yli** » Tue May 29, 2007 12:23 am

Isn't this bingo about "The 13 member states of Euroland" instead of all EU-27 member states ?

lazza · Post by **lazza** » Tue May 29, 2007 9:44 am

yli wrote:Isn't this bingo about "The 13 member states of Euroland" instead of all EU-27 member states ?

Oh!

(In which case, should it not include Monaco, San Marino, etc...? Are they not in Euroland?)

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:24 pm

lazza wrote:
yli wrote:Isn't this bingo about "The 13 member states of Euroland" instead of all EU-27 member states ?
Oh!

(In which case, should it not include Monaco, San Marino, etc...? Are they not in Euroland?)

I decided to use some fuzzy logic about this.
I felt like not wanting to include such places as Montenegro (which wasn't even a country back then!), because eventually that would have caused me some headache about some countries.
I am fairly sure you can reconstruct the logic I have had behind my decision. Maybe not in words, but at least as an abstract feeling. The main point was inventing some logic, I didn't really bother figuring out whether it is objectively the best one out there. In any case, someone always has something against your decision no matter what it is. So, why not just choose the logic by random? That's pretty much what I did, anyway. I thought a while about including also other places than these 13 ones, and since I couldn't find out which logic would be the best, I just decided to do what first came to my mind.
And I figure we're having a lot of fun, right?

Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:29 pm

And pheww.. I thought I would have had to alter the source code of my list generator program to support Lazza. But luckily EBTF has

Had he been for example from Poland, that would have meant me having to alter the code.

Well, now that I think of it, I think I will alter the code so that countries with more than two letters in their name will be handled differently than the two letter ones. (currently for example country fi generates

and therefore country Poland generates :flag-Poland: to the listing..)