Z-BINGO01 (Apr 2, 2023)
Puzzle
"Birthplace Identified: Nationality Generated Origin"
Research | 1 Word
Clue
Hover over the clues if you require!
Clue 1: Look at the first letters of each word.
Clue 2: What is the birthplace of Bingo? And no, not the nursery rhyme, the game.
Clue 3: More accurately, the nation.
Answer and Explanation
Answer: Italy
Explanation: Italy is allegedly where the game of Bingo began, initially as a lottery.
Summary of Receipt
Division Alpha wants Capgras and Twain to start investigating the 'Sacred Hall of Bingo', a newly-formed cult with five members. While that doesn't seem interesting, two of their members are Umbra and Complexico, while two others re called 'Bingo' and 'The Fat Lady', both former 'greater cosmic forces' who have fallen in power. The last is 'the Dancing Queen' - not another cosmic force, but incredibly dangerous nonetheless.
Transcript
BINGO01 | 4/2/23 | Capgras
While Twain is keeping busy trying to get the Archives 2.0 up and running, I’ve been busy doing our ACTUAL job. Cult and Esoteric Affairs. I think I’ve mentioned it before, but the Big A wants us lowly little Zs to look into this Sacred Hall of Bingo cult that sprung up a week or so ago. You’d think a cult that just started forming and has less than five confirmed members shouldn’t really be at the top of our priorities, but then you haven’t heard the member list yet.
Hell, I don’t even think I can say who the leader is. It’s all fun and games to put all of the Cafe and Diner’s secrets in an easily read HTML file, but this is our actual “job-job.” We can’t go putting Indigo secrets here. But our rank does give us a little leeway. So, who are the Bingo five?
Well, every cult has a leader, and while I’m not at liberty to name names, we’ll call him, well, Bingo. The reason Bingo is the head of a cult is, well, concerning, to say the least, is he’s what we call a “greater cosmic force.” While he’s certainly fallen in the cosmic ranks as of late, he’s still a very dangerous player who has taken on a very dangerous ideology. Now, his right-hand man is still unconfirmed, but I think we all see the writing on the wall. We’ll call them The Fat Lady. The Fat Lady, like Bingo, is a “greater cosmic force.” They are joined by… I don’t know, we’ll go with the Dancing Queen. The Queen is not a greater cosmic force, but he’s a scary guy nonetheless. At least when it comes to him, we can kind of hope time just takes him out. As for the last two members, I’ll just come out and say it: Umbra and Complexico. Well, Umbra, for sure. Complexico is a maybe still. Real boys club as it currently is.
Anyway, I’m going to be paying “Bingo” an in-person visit. It’s a fun little game us greater cosmic forces play. See if we can't keep innocents out of Bingo's little nihilism crusade.