The Pangrammatic Highway

Authors

Udo Pernisz

Abstract

Traveling by car, usually passive and often boring, can now be turned into a meaningful recreation. The activity described here started out with what the children called Bingo: looking for signs along the highway with the letters B-I-N-G-O on them, one letter per sign, and in the order prescribed by the word. Each player silently checks the signs visible from the car until the one who has first seen all five letters calls out "Bingo." The signs that can be used for this game must be visible from the road, more or less facing oncoming traffic. This includes traffic signs along the road and signs off the road, that is, commercial signs, advertising, graffiti on barn walls, or names on factory buildings. Text written on vehicles is not admissible: no license plates, no car types, no lettering on trucks and utilities.

Recommended Citation

Pernisz, Udo (1988) "The Pangrammatic Highway," Word Ways: Vol. 21 : Iss. 3 , Article 3.
Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol21/iss3/3