Online Bingo Rising in Popularity
- Filed under: Bingo
- Date: Dec 24,2009
Bingo is one of the most popular games to play online. Its appeal lies in the fact it is very easy to learn, and gives everyone the same chance of winning. Essentially, the game of bingo is based on random chance, with each participant being given a randomly-generated game card.
On this card are printed a series of numbers, usually in the range from 1 – 90. Then a piece of number-generating software is brought into play to choose numbers at random. Once these numbers have been chosen, the player marks them off on their own gamecard.
The object of the game is to be the first to mark off all of the numbers – thus winning a full “house”. At this point, the player will win the jackpot – or a share of the jackpot if there is more than 1 winner. Some of these jackpots can be quite high, especially if they have been “rolling” or accumulating over time.
The reason there can be more than 1 winner is the same for that of a lottery. Because the game cards are printed and distributed randomly, it’s quite possible that more than 1 game card will contain the right numbers that have been chosen, in the same manner as for a lottery game.
The difference is, though, in bingo you don’t have to get the numbers exactly as drawn. This is because the principle behind the game is that any 15 numbers from 90 are the ones that will win. When the numbers are chosen, then, it’s actually possible for there to be 89 numbers drawn with no winners until the 90th and final one.
Just to explain this further, if you imagine there are 90 possible numbers to be drawn. Then each game card has a random sequence from 1-90 printed on it. It could feasibly happen that the 15th number that everyone is after to complete their card is the last one to be drawn.
Obviously for this to happen, each player will have had to cross off different numbers – that is, a different set of 14 numbers – from the 89 that have been drawn. While this may seem a bit complex to think about, it makes sense from a mathematical viewpoint.
Now, I’m not suggesting that people play bingo because they’re interested in this type of mathematical reasoning, but the effect of this theory is one of the joys of bingo – that everyone has an equal chance of winning right up to the final number being called.
Jon Jackson is a bingo expert, working with a UK online bingosite, that has been established over 10 years, BingoPalace.
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