MBTA Bingo

Make your T ride slightly more fun with MBTA Bingo. Click the Print button below and take a copy with you. Then just check off items as you see/hear/smell them. And when you win? Yell "BINGO!" as loud as you can - see if you can startle the guy at the other end of the car whose music you can feel in your bones.

Hit Reload to get a different board.

All hail Cheryl Stober for this brilliant idea. Have ideas for additional items? Post 'em in a comment below.

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Phrases so far

By adamg on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 8:57am.

Customer service agent	Perv	"Traffic ahead"	Singing rider	Summer session ad
Rolling bottle	Dead train	Foul odor	Discarded Metro	Drunk
Rodent	Train standing by	Broken door	Broken escalator	Religion ad
Musician	Somebody smoking	Chinese food	Bag check	Backpack smacks you
Rachel Kaprelian	MP3 player cranked to 11	Bag on seat	Exotic wildlife	Duct-taped window
Somebody eating	Person rushing in before everybody exits	Train goes express	Sob Story Guy	Flash from 3rd rail/overhead wire
AC not working	Zipcar ad	Stroller	Person reading paper that costs money	Cellphone TMI
Door blocker	Guy spread across 2 seats	Clinical-study ad	Nail clipping	Dog

Needs more happy things to look for!

By eeka on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:03am.

Sweet parent-child interaction
Quietly reading a book
Colorful shoes
Person making something
Classy/subtle PDA
Litter-picker-upper
Operator visible from first car
Person offering seat
Healthy snack

What Eeka said

By fenwayguy on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:44pm.

On the positive side:

Good-natured, pleasant bus operators. There are some, you know (and a number of them drive the 55 bus Park Street-Copley-West Fens).

The Red Line operator who respects her passengers enough to announce 'Ladies and gentlemen, I have some very bad news'.

Being offered a seat.

- 2 year old zoetropes

By Peterborough on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:50am.

- 2 year old zoetropes advertising movies that came out in 2009.
- T Maps from the 70s or otherwise wildly out of date
- Bruins/Sox player advertising using the T they've never been on

Peterborough
http://www.bostontipster.com

Switching problems Shuttle

By anon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 1:07pm.

Switching problems
Shuttle service (ie, when train breaks, routine weekend maintenance, and my personal favorite--The Elevator Shuttle)
Pre-paid pass expired
A T worker yells at you
Breakdancer
Coffee flood
unknown liquid flood
broken umbrella
discarded scratch ticket
Dunkin Donuts trash
pole leaner (so you have no place to hold on)
someone sitting on the ground
someone drawing
someone on a laptop
someone taking a picture thinking no one sees them
someone grading a paper
someone studying a printed power point lecture
someone in scrubs
someone on a cellphone saying "I'm on the T and about to go underground"
someone on a cellphone saying "can you hear me now"
post-game chaos
a sticky substance
obvious urine

"Tough guys" doing pull ups.

By Felicity on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 7:22am.

"Tough guys" doing pull ups.

Mobile version

By adamg on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 9:17am.

This obviously screams for an app. Alas, that's way beyond my skill set, but I should be able to at least get checkboxes next to items.

Working on it...

By Matt on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 12:37pm.

Should have a prototype Android and iOS app soon...

How about:

By GoBruins on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 9:45am.

Pink plastic shopping bags
very low volume on announcements
very high volume on announcements
witness fare evasion

Everyone can cross off "pink

By datadyne007 on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:08am.

Everyone can cross off "pink plastic bags" the minute the doors open at Chinatown. Could be a very exciting approach if it's your last square. =)

Or Kendall Sq.

By rsybuchanan on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 8:28pm.

Garment District for the win!

Howabout for the green line

By anon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 9:50am.

Howabout for the green line "everyone crowded together in the front, plenty of room in the back"

+ "If ya enter through the

By datadyne007 on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:15am.

+ "If ya enter through the reah come up and pay ya fa-ah."
Could be shorted to "come up and pay ya fa-ah."

+ Sassy driver

Ooh, buses...

By eeka on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 10:28am.

Forgot about those. In that case, we need a space for the Big Mama drivers...

"OK, now honey, you gotta tap the card...did I SAY to put the money in yet? MMhmm. Come on, come on, tap it again. NOW you put the money in."

Service Behind

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:12am.

Yeah the old "Service Behind" ploy

Doors are closing shouted x 3 or 4

Headscarf or do-rag

Elderly hand-holding Couple

child announcing stops

travel mug

sippy cup

lululemon bag

for the bus version

By coffeeweasel on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:25am.

Bus is full, skips a stop

"Back DOOR!"

Granny cart

More bingo squares

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:47am.

Rank fast-food odor (McD's, BK, KFC, etc., not just Chinese)
Tinny hip-hop blaring through cellphone speaker (no earbuds)
Fast-food trash left on seat
Drunk conversation shouted across crowded car

some more esoteric ones

By Matthew on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 2:45pm.

Train reboots -- electronics power down/up.

Fare inspectors at work.

Workers on track as you go by.

Blue line train attempts to depart Airport station without switching power supply (seen it once).

Bus displays wrong info on sign.

Bus uses piece of paper with route number.

Broken stop request strip.

Someone parked in bus stop.

Passenger demands to alight while not at bus stop.

Operator repeats each station announcement same as automated messages.

Cars block crossing of trolley at street-level.

Trolley blows horn at interloper (car or person).

Scheduled vehicle fails to show up ever.

Packed bus stops to pick-up passengers while nearly empty bus skips stop.

6+ Green line trains pass before your branch shows up.

3+ Green line trains of same branch pass consecutively.

Get off full train and realize there's an empty one right behind that.

Spot elusive 4-car Green Line monster.

Bus drives around with foldable seat up because no one can figure out the latch.

Stop request indicated but nobody alights.

Passenger gives seat to elderly person or pregnant lady.

Someone pays fare with small change onboard.

forgot a big one

By Matthew on Sun, 05/20/2012 - 2:49am.

Seeing Richard Davey riding the T.

Person in handicapped seat

By Lauren on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 3:17pm.

Person in handicapped seat (obviously not handicapped)
Tourists
Bicycle

No.

By eeka on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 4:23pm.

You can't tell by looking if someone can't stand very long, has poor balance, gets dizzy on vehicles, etc.

robo announcements with

By anon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 3:48pm.

robo announcements with mispronounced station names such as "lech-mere instead of "leech-mere."

Except he's not a robot

By fenwayguy on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 11:09pm.

He's from here, so he should know betta! Like "Saint BO-tolph Street". (Did he say "Saint Botox Street"?)

Another one: People who sit on the steps between the levels of the low-floor Green Line cars. Way to be a space hog and a tripping hazard.

Passenger whistling a tune, more or less.

Person wearing multitude of

By anon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 3:52pm.

Person wearing multitude of buttons announcing various political or social causes.

* obviously pregnant woman

By Beth C on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 5:27pm.

* obviously pregnant woman standing while everyone around them pretends not to see them
* passenger stretched out sleeping across four seats
* ginormous baby carriage
* conductor yelling "Don't hold the doors!!!"

I saw ginormous baby

By Mea on Tue, 05/22/2012 - 12:41pm.

I saw ginormous baby carriage this morning. To liven things up how about ginormous baby carriage blocking door and mom/dad refusing to move making it tough for even slender people to get off the train in a single file line. Ya, that was this morning for ya. The joys of the T. - Mea www.hertrainstories.blogspot.com

Pickup artist hitting on

By anon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 4:11pm.

Pickup artist hitting on young women.
While waiting for a bus at a station 3 "out of service" buses come in a row.
Person presses stop request when bus is arriving at it's destination train station (Duh, don't worry, if the bus says Wonderland for example the driver will actually stop at Wonderland).
Train comes to abrupt halt when it hits a red signal. Extra points if it moves an additional 2 feet and comes to another abrupt halt.

DJ Nitetrain!

By anon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 5:37pm.

"DJ Nitetrain", of course.

Forfeit the game entirely if you run into

By MC Slim JB on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 5:50pm.

...Goth Mannequin Guy (seen here on the Red Line): http://i.imgur.com/2RyPr.jpg

Bus driver unfamiliar with

By Badger on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 7:45pm.

Bus driver unfamiliar with route, makes stops at non-bus-stops.

Bus driver unfamiliar with route, actually becomes lost and requires passenger direction

Mismatched seat

By anon on Sat, 05/19/2012 - 8:45pm.

Mismatched seat coverings
"The" Ron Newman
"This train is being taken out of service"
Bad body odor
Transit police
System map or roll-sign with the A line *instant win*
Raving mental patient
Someone barefoot
Ralph Nader
Skateboarders
Subway musician
Michael Dukakis