About Bingo

The game of Bingo is played in halls all over the country. Bingo rules and payouts and variations vary from place to place. You can find Bingo brochures detailing game types, rules and payouts available at each particular location.

Essentially, players purchase Bingo cards with numbers on them in a 5 x 5 grid corresponding to the five letters in the word B-I-N-G-O. Numbers such as B-2 or 0-68 are then drawn at random (out of a possible 75 in American Bingo, and 90 in British and Australian Bingo) until one player completes a ' Bingo ' pattern, such as a line with five numbers in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal row on one of their cards and wins the prize . There are many possible patterns to play for.

A Bingo Card contains 24 numbered spaces and one free space (blank), with which you play BINGO. The numbers are assigned at random on each card and are arranged in five columns of five numbers each by five rows (5 x 5 = 25 in total including the blank square).

The numbers in the B column are between 1 and 15, column I, between 16 and 30, column N, between 31 and 45, column G, between 46 and 60, and column O, between 61 and 75.