How to Play Bingo
The beauty of bingo is in it's simplicity it's also a great social game, that is why the top sites are concentrating on introducing good chat software as much as good game play.
The rules are easy to understand, each player gets a card (or more than one if you prefer.) with a grid of 25 boxes made up of five columns and five rows. (UK Players are used to a different form of bingo).
The columns are represented by the letters B. I. N. G. O. each column has a range of numbers associated with it B 1-15, I 16-17, N 31-45, G 46-60, 0 61-75, the numbers on each card are unique so no two players have matching cards.
A caller selects the numbers at random and as they are called the players mark them off, the center square under the N is always a free square. the game ends when a player marks five boxes in a row either vertically, horizontally or diagonal, there are other combinations of winning.
75 Ball Bingo is the Bingo game played in United States of American and Canada. Generally, the 75 Ball Bingo is similar to 90 number Bingo.
90-Ball Bingo is the bingo game traditionally played in the United Kingdom and Australia.
The game is similar to 75-Bingo, where players purchase Cards/Tickets, then mark the numbers that are called and hope to be the first player who correctly completes the winning pattern. Although the basic foundations of the two games are the same there are many differences.
In 90-Ball Bingo, cards have three rows and nine columns.
Five squares in each row contain numbers ranging from 1 to 90 and the rest are blank.
The winning patterns are always the same and there are usually three patterns in each game.
In 90-Ball Bingo, each individual face (grid of numbers) is referred to as a Ticket, which is synonymous with cards in 75-Ball Bingo. 90-Ball Bingo Tickets are 3 rows by 9 columns. Each row contains 5 numbers and 4 blank spaces.
90-Ball Bingo is almost always played with Strips of six Tickets.
Each Strip contains all 90 numbers distributed throughout the 6 Tickets in a Dab-All format. If a Strip (6 Tickets) is played in one bingo game then every possible number from 1 -90 is covered and therefore, a number is crossed off at each bingo call.
Auto Daub all bingo sites feature an Auto Daub this will automatically mark off your numbers as they are called, if you prefer you can turn this feature off, don't worry that this will cause you to miss a win.
Your win will still register.