Playing online bingo has led to the innovation of many new forms of this game. None of which are difficult to learn to play, or difficult to participate in. 80 ball bingo was once called shutter board bingo, but we hardly ever hear that name any longer, now it is 80 ball bingo, the game for those who think 90 ball is too long a game and 75 ball is too short. It is a kind of “middle of the road” game. Playing bingo does not mean you have to wade through huge rule books, there are not tricks, no intricacies and no complications. It is simply a random number game that is love the world over because of its simplicity. It is reaching a stage where it is played nearly more than any other game on the internet, and this is because anyone can play and you don’t have to learn the rules first. Just learn the basics, have a few practice games using your free bingo money and away you go, you are on your way to winning. The ticket in 80 ball bingo is arranged in five rows and four columns. The columns for 80 ball bingo are different colours, red, yellow, blue and silver. You simply register an account and buy tickets with your free money, or make a deposit and buy tickets with that. Click your mouse on the “Buy Tickets” tab for this. It‘s really simple,
The numbers marked on the board are the number you want the bingo caller to call for you. He or she calls from a selection of numbers 1-80 which are issued by the RNG. If the number is on your ticket, it is marked automatically by “auto-daub”. So there you have it, playing online bingo is not like learning nuclear physics, it just is!
The most wonderful thing about 80 ball bingo is that it is a nice meld of the US loved 75 ball bingo and the much loved UK 90 ball game. It is a pattern game, and this makes it a little more interesting, so your numbers are spread over a specific patter. The classic “X” is used, as are horizontal, vertical, four corners, other letter patterns. The nice thing about using a grid, is that patterns may be used to adapt to specific promotions or themed games.
75 ball bingo is played in the UK, but this is the game of choice for US and Canadian players. The game has entrenched itself in UK bingo culture more than likely because of broad exposure to it by online players. Most UK online bingo sites offer this game and many players enjoy it because it offers a lot of variety in terms of the patterns which are used.
These patterns in 75 ball bingo can be specifically designed to support themed promotions, and you may see a cruise ship pattern being used if there is a cruise on offer for example. The reason why patterns adapt to the game so well is because the bingo card used is a five by five grid.
This means there are five columns running horizontally and five vertically creating a square grid. The top row contains the words B I N G O and when numbered balls are called they are called thus: B4, O73, etcetera. Certain numbers are allocated to each of these columns – 1-15 under the “B” column, 16-30 under the I column and so on.
The name of the game reflects the amount of numbers in the game, so 75 numbers are used, from 1 – 75. The card has a blank square in the centre and this is a free space, if the free space is included in the pattern, it is automatically marked off for all payers and does not need to be called.
The numbers are generated by a random number generator and when they are called, they are marked off the card. The person who wins the 75 ball bingo game is the player who marks off all of the numbers on the card first and calls bingo.
The beauty of playing [TAG-TEC]75 ball bingo[/TAG-TEC] online is that they numbers are automatically daubed (marked off) for the player. This feature is available at a online bingo sites and is called “auto-daub”. There are some sites which allow the player to switch this feature off, and experienced players may choose to do this and mark the numbers off themselves using their mouse.
It is highly recommended that beginners of 75 ball bingo don’t do this until they get the hang of the game, because the game progresses quite quickly and generally speaking players have more than one ticket in a game. Sometimes players are allowed to purchase as many as 96 tickets into one game, can you imaging trying to mark off all the numbers on that amount of tickets manually? I can’t!
If you want to play online bingo from the comfort of your very own home, you must have a go at 90 ball bingo. If you are a UK resident, you will more than likely have come across this form of the game at some time in your life. If not, they it is easy to understand and even easier for me to explain. First some background. Online bingo has fast become one of the most popularly played games on the internet. The reason why this is so, is because it is 1. Easy to play, 2. A very social game and 3. You can win great prizes. 90 ball bingo is played with cards or tickets which contain a 27 square grid comprising 3 rows and 6 columns. The grid is printed with numbers in 15 of the squares, all randomly chosen. You don’t really get to choose, and why would you want to in a random number game? You register an online account, claim your free bingo money and play by buying your tickets with a click of the button. Tickets come in strips of 6, but you don’t have to buy 6 tickets unless this is the minimum buy-in, in a particular game. Then it is eyes-doe, time for the game.
But with online bingo you don’t have to go “eyes-down” to mark off the numbers on your card, this is automatically handled by the computer. So while the numbers are called randomly from a selection of 90, you watch to see if you win, or you start chatting and make some new friends, or play one of the many side-games on offer. These comprise of slots, and instant wins such as scratchies. At some online bingo sites you are even able to play roulette, blackjack or video poker as side games.
Well while you are doing something else or watching the game if you like, your tickets are automatically marked off and, if you get one line of numbers in a row, you win the third prize. If you win two lines of numbers in a row, you win second prize and if you win with every number on your card being called first you get the full house. If you win all three, you win all three prizes and this has been known to happen. Voila! 90 ball bingo.
