The Game of BingoIf you're serious about becoming a systematic winner at the game of Bingo, here is information that will put you on the right track. What we know as Bingo is a form of lottery that originated in Italy way back in the 16th century. The game migrated to France in the late 1700s in a form similar to the game we know today. No one knows for certain how and when this game came to North America. A toy manufacturere named Ed Lowe observed a version of the game played in Jacksonville, Ga., in 1929. Lowe returned to his home in New York, where he refined the game and gave it the name "Beano", which later became Bingo. In the 1930s a chain of successful "Beano" parlors opened in California. That operation was moved to Reno, Nevada where, in 1946, it evolved into Harrah's casino. When Harrah's opened it was dubbed "The House That Bingo Built." The poplarity quickly spread all over the country with thousands of games being played every week. Ever since the game can be found just about anywhere, it has also become hugely popular on the Internet.
Every Bingo game has a winning card, so a player's chances of winning depend on the number of cards in the game and how many cards he is playing. For example, if a player has 6 cards in a game where a total of 600 cards are being played, the chances of winning for that player is 1 in 100. It is primarily a game of luck, but there are ways to bend the odds in your favor and become a more consistent winner. Here's how you can swing the odds a little more in your direction: Extensive study of thousands of games has led to the conclusion that every Bingo game follows definite patterns. By utilizing these patterns, you have a better chance of beating the odds. The heart of any winning system is card selection. There are 24 numbers printed on every card and there are 25 squares; the center square being an un-numbered free space. If you were to select three cards you would have a total of 72 numbered locations. If these cards are chosen at random you might get only 40 to 50 unique numbers with the other 20 or 30 as duplicates of what you have on the other cards. This lessens your odds. You should attempt to have cards with as many total unique numbers among the sum of the cards as is possible. Another advantage of applying this strategy is that it makes it easier for the player to keep track of covering the numbers on the cards as each number called will have no more than one card slot on the players cards. Further, players should not choose playing cards which boasts so-called lucky numbers such as 7 or 11. The odds confirm that a 7 or 11 are resident on only about 20% of the winning cards. Therefore; only playing with cards with one of these numbers definitely cuts down on the percentage.  |
