Bingo Cards Ideas

Bingo cards are used for playing Bingo in special Bingo halls or clubs where people can not only play but also have a drink, eat, meet new people and have an excellent rest with friends or relatives. Bingo cards are used both for UK Bingo and US Bingo. But they are very different.

US Bingo cards are of square form and have 5 columns and 5 rows. Each card contains Bingo numbers between 1 and 75. The center place on the card is free of numbers and words "free space" are printed on it. Totally US Bingo cards contain 25 numbers together with "free space" which is considered filled automatically. Bingo balls have not only numbers but also one of 5 letters. Each column is also labeled by one of the letters of the word B-I-N-G-O. Over the first column - letter B, numbers from 1 to 15 correspond to it, over the second - I and numbers from 15 to 31, then letters N, G and O, actually making a word Bingo. In this version of Bingo games usually it is required to fill any form on a card, for example, the hat form (such cylinder with fields), the plane or simply any lines. And often the figures also created with turn on 90, 180 or 270 degrees, and also symmetric concerning vertical or horizontal axes of symmetry are accepted.

UK Bingo cards are  rectangular and have 3 rows and 5 columns. In the first column can be numbers from 1 to 10, in the second - from 11 to 21 and so on. Totally in the card 15 random numbers in the range from 1 to 90 are filled. The game usually goes in three stages, the first intermediate winner is that one who will fill one any row, the second winner - who will fill 2 rows, the main winner - who will fill the whole card.Usually prize-winning money is shared as follows:  15 % for one line, 30 % - for two and 55 % - for the whole card. If some players have collected the necessary combination simultaneously, prize-winning are shared between them fifty-fifty.

Internet Bingo gives a possibility to play these two variants and many other games online and the computer will help you to fill Bingo cards automatically.