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Bingo Rules
How bingo works - each bingo player is given a card marked with a grid which has a unique combination of numbers and, in some countries, blank spaces. The winning pattern to be formed on the card is announced. On each turn, a non-player (known as the caller) randomly selects a numbered ball from a container and announces the number to all the players. The ball is then set aside so that it cannot be chosen again. Each player searches their card for the called number, and if found, they mark it. The main element of skill in tBingo is the ability to search one's card for the called number in the short time before the next number is called. Some bingo games can be exceptionally fast.
The caller continues to select and announce numbers until the first player that forms the agreed pattern (one line, two lines, full house) on their card and shouts out the name of the pattern or bingo. One of the most common patterns, called "house" in the U.K. and Australia and "full card" or "blackout" in Canada and the United States, simply consists of marking all the numbers on the card. Other common American and Canadian patterns are L, Y, single line, two lines, centre cross, inner square (4 × 4), roving square (3 × 3), and roving kite (a 3 × 3 diamond). On Canadian and American cards, lines can be made horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Inner and roving squares and kites must be completely filled; roving squares and kites may be made anywhere on the card. |
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