Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Types of Bingo Games

There are 2 main types of bingo games - American (US Bingo) and English UK Bingo (or Housie). In this article we give you a brief overview of each type, and introduce you to a number of aspects of playing online bingo.
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British bingo or Housie
In the UK, playing Bingo kept the original name - Housie, because it is so called it in Australia and New Zealand, which enjoyed immense popularity. Each player has a bingo card with 15 numbers. There are usually five numbers in each of the three lines (with 9 columns, and hence, 4 empty cell in a row).

The figures referred to in the range from 1 to 90. And the average duration for this type of bingo game is from 4 to 4.5 minutes.

American Bingo
American bingo card consists of five rows and five columns, and so, in her 1925 numbers. The game involved a number in the range from 1 to 75, and they are selected in the same accident, and the choice of some fundamental differences from the British bingo here. In the U.S., many bingo based church or charitable organizations, but there are commercial bingo lotteries, which are installed in a casino, enough of them, for example, in Nevada.

Bingo 75 ball
The most popular form of bingo in Russia - a bingo hall for 90 balls. However, we want to remember as the second version of this game - bingo for 75 balls. Rules of the game here, by and large, the same. Initially, players buy cards (whose appearance is different from those applied in the game in 90 balls), who form a square. Each square is divided into 25 cells, remains free cell in the center (assuming that it is already closed), the numbers in the remaining 24 are distributed from 1 to 75.

In the process of filling the card has a clear rule. In place of the title cards often written word BINGO, and the letter B is in it over the first column, I - on the second, etc. In the first column are placed in random order, the numbers 1 to 15, in the second - 16 to 30, with a different word, all the numbers between 1 and 75 are divided into five equal parts (columns) and each of them (column) corresponds to a specific letter of the word BINGO . As a general rule, letters and applied to the balls, for example, a ball with the number 47 will be like this kind of - G47.

Then take out the balls at random and announce the number. The goal is to map the desired area to close. While in the bingo-90 filled a clear line, then there may be a shape. Their range is quite large, ranging from "any two lines" through the figure to "full card". Significantly, there are those pieces that are formed only in a particular position, and those who have several positions.

He picks up the prize fund, who quickly managed to gather all the required shape. When a game goes to a number of figures, the prize fund is divided into parts. If the figure is simultaneously formed by several players, the prize will be divided into all the winners.

Bingo 90 ball
Bingo is an American version of bingo. But in the U.S. bingo game ends at 75 days, and we have - 90. In Russia, bingo for 90 balls is more popular than the bingo hall for 75 balls. In the USSR in lotto playing almost everyone regardless of age, although today lotto pushed aside, yet it has received new life on the Internet, so as counting points and cash prizes going on here is much faster.

Games begin with the fact that all the players are buying the card, and not one. In this important - do not overdo it, managing to keep track of each card has a rectangular shape. It has 3 rows of cells to 9 in a row.

In 5 of 9 cells are located to determine the number, which should be dispersed, regardless of their order. In the first column are the numbers from 1 to 10, in the second - the number from 11 to 20, etc. It is easy to calculate that the card only 15 numbers. The game takes place in such a way. From lototron randomly drop balls with numbers from 1 to 90.

Playing bingo on 90 balls impressed gambling people who believed in his luck and do not doubt it. Everyone knows that luck favors the bold people. These above are the main types of bingo games .

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  1. There are usually five numbers in each of the three lines (with 9 columns, and hence, 4 empty cell in a row). online bingo

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  2. American bingo card consists of five rows and five columns, and so, in her 1925 numbers. online bingo

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