Bingo is considered to be a game of chance. Bingo cards are significant for playing the game of Bingo. Gone are the days when Bingo was played with the help of plastic reusable kind of Bingo cards. With the incursion of online Bingo, the Electronic Bingo cards have taken over the traditional Bingo cards. However the halls where the traditional Bingo is played still makes use of the traditional paper Bingo cards. There are two types of Bingo- UK Bingo and US Bingo. The Bingo cards used in both the types differ from each other.
Bingo cards - UK Bingo
A Bingo card used in UK Bingo has 3 rows and 9 columns. Each row
has 5 numbers and 4 blank spaces in it. The first column has numbers from 1 to 9, the second column has numbers from 10 to 19, the third column has numbers from 20 to 29 and like this the list continues till the last column with numbers from 80 to 90.
A single ticket book has 10 cards in it with different colors like- Red, White, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Orange, Blue, Lime, God and Violet. A multiple book contains 6 single books in it. Each page of the multiple book has 6 cards having the same color in it. Each page of the book has numbers from 1 to 90 imprinted on it.
US Bingo
US Bingo has total 25 squares with 24 numbered spaces and one space in middle is kept free. Each US Bingo card has B-I-N-G-O written on the top of each column respectively. The numbers on the Bingo card vary between 1 to 75. The numbers from 1 to 15 are imprinted in the B column, numbers from 16-30 are imprinted on I column, numbers from 31 to 45 are imprinted on G column, the numbers from 46 to 60 are imprinted on O column. US Bingo cards have different patterns made on it like horizontal, vertical, diagonal lines which needs to be completed to win the game.
Online Bingo
The Electronic Bingo cards used in Online Bingo are of the same version as the cards used in traditional Bingo. Online Bingo gives an access to the players to play American Bingo with 75 balls and UK Bingo with 90 balls according to their choice.
