How to Play 75 Ball Bingo
Playing 75 ball bingo can seem like a simple game to get to grips with, and it is certainly quite easy to understand the rules. But the game-play itself can be quite subtle and simultaneously demanding. This has kept many hardened bingo vets playing for years now, whilst still maintaining the excitement and challenge of those first few games.
This version of bingo is the one that is most popular in the US, and it is so called, unsurprisingly, because there are 75 numbers to watch out for. Obviously, in the real world down the bingo hall, that would mean 75 balls to be drawn, but these days it's the on-line version that is picking the numbers for you to dab.
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24 of these numbers are randomly selected and printed out on the bingo cards that you play with. The aim of the game is to cross off, or 'dab', each number on your card as it's called. The way these numbers are arranged in 75 ball game cards is as follows. First the card is split into 5 rows and 5 columns, producing a 5x5 grid of 25 squares. The middle square is blanked (quite often marked with a star), so giving you 24 numbers for each card.
Each column can potentially contain its own set of 15 numbers in its 5 squares – and those sets are ordered. That sounds more complicated than it actually is - it just means that the first column could have any 5 numbers drawn from 1 to 15, the second column any 5 numbers from 6 to 30, and so on up to 75.
To help pick out the numbers, as they are called, each column has its own letter associated with it – coming from the name BINGO. So the first column is B, and the last column is O. Then, as each number is drawn, the letter associated with that column is also named at the same time. So if a 33 is drawn, and it will be read out, or printed to screen, as N33. That speeds up the process of dabbing.
To win the 75 ball game, you need to complete a pattern. That could be anything from a crown to a champagne glass to a hangman. If all of those colored squares, making the pattern on your card, are dabbed out on one of your cards- you are the winner of that game. Prizes are given to the first person to call that pattern- and jackpots can be awarded to those getting a coverall (the whole card covered) in the lowest number of draws.
The challenge comes when you play with more than 1 bingo card. Three is commonplace, 5 not unusual, and more can really stretch your mental abilities, memory and speed of dabbing. And the more cards you have, the greater the chance of hitting one of those elusive jackpots. So, 75 ball bingo is a game that grows with you as you get better at playing.
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