01/11/2026
Over the holidays, we drove over two hours into rural PA. Passed many horse and buggies, on a snowy, icy day. It was treacherously icy just getting it into the truck.
This vintage “professional Bingo game” set up was needing some TLC, and the owner needed it gone, asap. He had gotten it when the church stopped running bingo nights and they needed it gone. It hadn’t been touched in years.
The price was barely a fraction of what we see similar ones anywhere else.
When I saw the ad for it, don’t ask me why, but I had to have it. I could see more than just hysterically awesome, funny game nights, but the coolest lighting feature ever, for us.
After a lot of wiring fixes (thankfully that’s in our wheelhouse of abilities) and we bought 80 new light bulbs, and an almost death defying (no seriously, we nearly escaped death 😳) effort to put this gargantuan piece almost eight feet up on the wall, securely, we had to figure out the rest of making it work.
We purchased new, but vintage sized bingo balls on eBay as several were missing. I made a removable top for the blower box so it’s a side table when not in use.
The cable connections to this beast are unfathomable, and after much deliberation, we decided (and had no real choice) but to let some of it just show. The only way the lights actually light up on the big glass board, is to put the balls into the smaller, but still large, holder which trips that switch for the square in the big board.
Soon I had the realization that words are possible, and that was the icing on this crazy Bingo cake.
So today, if you see the word in lights, just comment it below, as more than ever, we all need it.
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