PLAY BINGO
When playing Bingo, the aim is to complete the bingo game pattern on your bingo card before all the other players. When a bingo pattern is completed, there is a bingo winner. When playing online, cards are randomly chosen for the player. Usually a player will only accept three or four cards at once. But some sites do offer players more cards.
Every online bingo game has a caller or a display board; this helps the player see the number being called, as well as keeping track of numbers already called. It's important to pay attention to the pattern. Patterns are always displayed in clear view for the player (they are usually displayed up on the display board). To achieve a Bingo, you need to form the current pattern. Some patterns are easier than others to complete. The most basic patterns are straight lines in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction. Another simple and popular game is the "blackout" or "coverall", which is when patterns must cover all numbers on the card for the player to win.
Numbers are announced rapidly, usually 10 seconds apart, so you must pay careful attention to the numbers that are being called and mark them quickly and precisely on your cards. Some sites offer auto-daubers, which repeatedly marks the numbers, but it takes much of the fun out of the game. The play is continuous until one or more players call bingo. Once bingo is achieved, all the numbers are verified and the game is over. Once the winner's cards are checked over, the prize is awarded, a new game begins. In the case of two winners, the prize is split.
Bingo Rules
Bingo is played on cards with numbers on them in a 5 x 5 grid corresponding to the five letters in the word B-I-N-G-O. Bingo cards contain 24 numbered spaces and one free space (blank). The numbers are assigned at random on each card and are arranged in f.
When the game starts, numbers like B-2 or 0-68 are drawn at random and announced. There are 75 numbers in total in American Bingo. In British and Australian Bingo there is 90 numbers in total. When a player finds a matching number on one of his cards (you’re allowed to play several cards at once), he dabs it out with his dabber (a plastic bottle filled with ink, topped with a dabbing sponge). The players have a positive number of seconds to find the number on their Bingo cards (in online Bingo this can be done automatically). The first player to fill the numbers in a pattern according to the rules of the particular game shouts out "BINGO!" and wins.
Bingo patterns
The patterns you have to complete to make a Bingo differ from game to game. These are some examples :
Postage stamps - you have to fill two squares of four numbers on a single card, each in a corner of your card.
Blood, Sweat and Tears - you have to fill a single bingo card with three bingos (corners do not count)
Kite and Tail - you have to fill a diagonal plus one of the corners running through the diagonal, to make what looks like a kite.
Six Pack - you have to fill to make a pattern of six numbers, two rows of three each, horizontal or vertical. Sometimes you can use the free space, sometimes not.
Nine pack - you have to fill a square of nine numbers.
Cover all - you have to fill all numbers on a card for bingo.
Eight states - you have to fill the numbers surrounding the free space.
Dotted picture frame -you have to fill every other space around the card. Top and bottom - you have to fill the top row and bottom row.
