Bingo A typical housie, bingo, ticket
contains fifteen numbers, arranged in nine columns by three rows
and each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column
contains either one, two, or three, numbers.
The first column
contains numbers from 1 to 9, The second column numbers from
10 to 19, The third 20 to 29 and so on up until the last column,
which contains numbers from 80 to 90 (the 90 being placed in this
column as well). The game is presided over by a caller, whose
job it is to call out the numbers and validate winning tickets and
he will also announce the prize or prizes for each game before starting.
The caller will then usually say "Eyes down" to indicate that he
is about to start. The caller begins to call numbers as they are
randomly selected, either by an electronic Random Number Generator
(RNG) or by using balls in a mechanical draw machine. Calling takes
the format of simple repetition in the framework, "Two and
three, twenty three."
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A typical "dabber" or "dauber", used for both
bingo and housie tickets. The different winning combinations are:
Line = covering a horizontal line of five numbers on the ticket.
Two Lines = covering any two lines on the same ticket. Full
House = covering all fifteen numbers on the ticket.
In the
UK it is most common for a line game to be followed directly by
a two line game and a full house game. In the UK's National
Bingo Game only a full house game is ever played. The record payout
for the national bingo game was £950,000 and was won by a customer
from Gala Sheffield Parkway. In all cases, the last number called
must be in the winning sequence. If you do not stop the game in
time and the caller starts the next number, your claim will be deemed
invalid! When players first come to the venue they can buy a
book of tickets. Players generally play between one and six books.
Players in the UK usually buy books of 6 tickets containing all
possible numbers in different combinations.
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As each number is called players check to see
if that number appears on their tickets. If it does, they will mark
it with a special marker called a dabber or a dauber. When all the
numbers required to win a prize have been marked off, the player
calls out "Line" or "House" depending on the prize.
An Auto-Validate
system is often used in large clubs where a 1 to 8 digit security
code is read out by a member of staff and checked against the entry
for that ticket on the system. This saves the club from reading
out every number on the ticket. In smaller clubs each number
in the winning combination must be read out. The caller will check
to see if each number has been called, and if it has, he will say
something similar to "House correct - please pay out". There
will often be an interval halfway through the game.
Chris
Lamb, manager from Gala bingo Nottingham Castle, says "Electronic
gaming is now taking another step forward with the introduction
of P.E.T (programable electronic tickets), that allows customers
to play many more tickets on a small handheld terminal, connected
to the caller via wi-fi."
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