Bingo is probably one of the easiest games on the planet; all you need are bingo chips and cards, the ability to know the numbers, fast eyes and a prize, children can even play it.
Targets of the Game:
The objective of the game is to accomplished the pattern agreed before the game with the minimum number of calls. Patterns are determined before the game starts, it can either be a a box, a full horizontal, a vertical, or a diagonal, or what they call block out, in which you’ll have to fill your whole card.
Bingo Card
The Bingo card has five letters (B, I, N, G, O) across the top showing the five columns. Each of the column has its own set of numbers ranging from 1 to 75.
The B column has numbers from 1-15, while column I has numbers, 16-30, the N column has numbers from 31 – 45, the G column has numbers from 46 to 60, and the O column has numbers from 61 – 75. Each column Each of the column may only have 5 numbers from their respective range.
With the numbers, the cards forms a grid which the middle, the 3rd row of column N is labeled free, this box doesn’t need to be filled.
The Game
You need a bingo card, which you can have more than one, depending on how fast you can label them.
The game starts when the host tells everyone the pattern to be formed.
Listen for the 1st ball, the host will shout a letter, either B, I, N, G or O, for the column and then a number under that particular letter, e.g. B-11.
See if you have this number in your card, then label it.
The host continues to draw numbers until a person formed the required pattern.
The person accomplishing the pattern should shout BINGO immediately! This is to stop the drawing of additional numbers and to tell everyone that she has won the game.
The host will then verify all the numbers and their position in your card, either by taking your card, or by you shouting out the numbers that made you form the pattern.
A new bingo game may follow after another, either with the same or different pattern, with same or different prize.
The prize should be immediately given after a Bingo.
Note
Never yell BINGO if you haven’t formed a pattern yet, this stops the games and annoying for others.
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