On New Year’s Eve Snarky Platypus and I created this bingo card for 2024 listing 25 distinctly possible things. And we list another 25 possibilities that didn’t make the cut.
These are our first 25 possibilities, arranged randomly. There is no free square in the middle of this one. And yeah it’s presented as a generic table rather than as a picture of a bingo card. You’ll cope.
| Indonesia imposes tough visa restrictions on Australians | Atlantic Conveyor ocean current collapses | The Spirit of Wayne Goss inspires ALP victory in Queensland | UK election produces hung parliament | Australia wins Eurovision |
| Nirvana releases new music with an AI Kurt Cobain | Vladimir Putin assassinated | The Veronicas score a Top 10 single | X / Twitter bought by Tencent / Bytedance | Flashdance sequel announced |
| Commonwealth Games abandoned | Congestion charge introduced in an Australian city | NZ parliamentary coalition collapses | Australian high-speed train announced | #ALPSpill |
| Discovery of life on Enceladus | ABC and SBS merge | Rupert Murdoch marries and/or dies | Rihanna releases a new album | #LibSpill |
| Melbourne airport railway construction starts | Another Pacific Island nation signs a migration agreement with Australia | Apple buys Disney | Hungary leaves the EU | Neighbours is renewed for a second season |
We brainstormed 50 possibilities and used a Process to choose those favourites. These are the rejects. And I decided to use Becca Levi’s suggestion for a certainty as a free square.
| Norfolk Island secedes from Australia | Spice Girls reunion tour (again) | Major media outlet fooled by obvious AI fakery | Chinese electric vehicle becomes top seller in Australia | Gina Reinhart reconciles with her children |
| Richard Kingsmill moves to Smooth FM | Teal MP corruption scandal | Thailand parliament collapses leading to a fresh general election | HIV cure becomes mainstream | Official Olivia Newton John biopic announced |
| Dolphins attack, like orcas | Ukraine and Russia sign peace deal | FREE SQUARE: Elon Musk embarrasses himself publicly | Non-white James Bond announced | Australia gets Top 5 in Paris Olympics medal tally |
| Peter Dutton sex scandal | Australia joins Asian Games | PRC naval base confirmed for Solomon Islands | Hey Hey It’s Saturday reboot announced | Third Australian supermarket player reaches 25% market share |
| Singapore Airlines buys Virgin Australia | Mental illness caused by stomach microbes | Massive new rare earth deposit discovered in Australia | US and China warships exchange live fire | Betelgeuse goes supernova |
[Photo: Background image by Rudonni via Pixabay. Foreground bingo card originally by Milton Bradley Company, photo by Abby Hendrickson under under a CC-BY 2.0 Generic license. Digital composition by Stilgherrian.]
