The popular past time of bingo is mostly played in gaming halls however, pay out options and gaming variations vary drastically, especially since the game has grown in the last few years.
The game requires participants to purchase a gaming card, such a card comes in the style of a five by five grid, and this grid corresponds to the five letters in the word ‘bingo’. Numbers are then drawn out of a bag or alternatively revealed via a bingo wheel. The winning player is the one to compete a bingo pattern; this could be a line with a total of five numbers in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. There are however many winning patterns available, meaning there are an array of chances for players to take home winnings.
A bingo card houses a total of 24 numbered spaces and then also one blank space. The numbers are revealed in random orders on each card and are situated in five columns of five numbers, each by five rows.
The numbers between 1 and 15 are situated in the B column, numbers between 16 and 30 feature in the I column, numbers between 31 and 45 lie in the N column, numbers between 46 and 60 are situated in the G column and the O column features numbers between 61 and 75.
Participants can choose from an array of unique game cards, none of which issue repeated numbers. There are both unduplicated series of 6,000 cards and 9,000 cards available to purchase, these come in the shape of hard cards and flimsy cards.
In recent years bingo has also moved online and offers a huge array of different types of bingo as well as loads of special prizes, cash jackpots and giveaways which have helped to make it a popular activity in the UK once again.