How to play 90-Ball Bingo

Bingo is a game of chance in which numbered balls are drawn at random and called, and the first player to complete the pattern on a card and claim it wins.

Play tickets of three rows for one line, two lines and a full house.

About 90-Ball Bingo

90-ball bingo is played on tickets of three rows and nine columns. Each row holds five numbers, and each column holds its own range: 1 to 9 in the first, 10 to 19 in the second and so on, up to 80 to 90 in the last.

Your tickets come from one strip of six, so no two of them share a number, and six tickets cover all 90 numbers.

A game goes through three stages on the same balls: one line, then two lines on the same ticket, then a full house of all 15 numbers. A ticket that completes the next stage on the ball that closes a stage can claim it straight away. The line stages are announced as they are won, but only the full house decides the game.

Every ticket has at least one number in each of its nine columns and never more than two, and a column's numbers run from smallest at the top to largest at the bottom. Each row has five numbers and four blank squares.

Play all six tickets and every ball called is on exactly one of them. With fewer tickets, some balls are on none of yours.

The goal of Bingo

The caller draws numbered balls one at a time, and you mark the called numbers on your cards. Complete the pattern being played and press Bingo on the ball that completes it.

How to set up Bingo

Playing alone, you sit in a hall of four with three computer players. Choose how many cards to play: one to four in 75-ball bingo, or one to six tickets in 90-ball bingo. The computer players play as many as you do, so more cards give you more to watch, not better odds.

A ball is called every six seconds on Relaxed, every four on Normal and every two and a half on Fast. A three second countdown comes before the first ball.

Bingo rules

Tap a number on your card to mark it once it has been called. A number that has not been called cannot be marked. Set marking to automatic and every called number is marked for you, but you still press Bingo yourself.

Your marks are only there to help you. When you press Bingo, your cards are checked against the numbers called, not against your marks, so a number you forgot to mark still counts.

A claim counts only on the ball that completed your card. Once the next ball is called you have one more second to claim; after that the bingo is missed, and that card cannot claim it again. On Line or One line, a later ball can still complete a different line on the same card.

Pressing Bingo when none of your cards has the pattern is a false claim. Your Bingo button is then locked until three more balls have been called.

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