My wife and I are big fans of the BBC show Strictly Come Dancing and over the past few years we’ve developed a casual game where we award ourselves imaginary points for being the first to spot a common phrase or action: “Yes! Bruno’s pretending that something is so funny he’s crying with laughter! That’s five points to me!” or “Heel caught in the hem of her dress — seventy points!” or “Len didn’t care for the ‘Faffing about’ at the start of the routine, so that’s another thousand and a half points for me!”
This year, we decided to simplify the rules (one point per cliché, and only the main shows count, not the weekday “It Takes Two” spin-off or any others) and open up the game to the rest of the world… and so we’ve created Strictly Bingo!
Simply print out a bunch of Strictly Bingo cards for your next Strictly-watching party and encourage your players to cross off the squares as they come up! You can make up your own rules about how to play beyond that: maybe smaller prizes for the first completed line (horizontally, diagonally or vertically), and a larger prize for the first person to complete an entire card! The most important thing is to have fun, not take it all too seriously, and enjoy the show!
From Mars 