2009 Dec 19

What is Bingo?
Bingo is a card game that is played with a deck of 52 cards. Each player is dealt with X cards and the dealer deals with Y cards. It can be either held upright or face down to the player.
How to Play Bingo?
Betting round starts with the dealer turning over one of the centre cards so as to start the game. Any card that has an equal value is compared to the center card maybe shown and discarded. The discarded card may be kept aside with the face of the card facing the dealer or the player. A player wins if he gets rid of all the cards from his hand. He says bingo and then claims the bet amount. In contrary, if no player loses all the cards even after all the center cards have been revealed, then the winner is decided by the dealer by adding the rank values of each of the players respectively. For the value part of it, jacks are treated as 11, queens as 12, kings as 13 and aces as 1 or 15 depending upon the agreed condition of the players before the start of the game.


Bingo in U.S.
According to US Bingo concept, it is a game of chance that is played against numbers by comparing it with numbers that match a series of them printed on a 5*5 card. They may be printed as cards or electronic or as papers.
Common Conditions for Winning
Players win if the number pattern on their cards matches the series of number pattern that is being called out. In some cases, two or more persons can get the same pattern done at the same time. So the prize in this case is given to the person who shouts “Bingo” first. This game is played and prizes are awarded based on the shout of “Bingo”. Every Bingo shout is later officially checked before handing over the prizes.
Scrabble (A board game form of Bingo)
Scrabble is also a bingo board game where tiles are placed against squares containing points. Each letter has a specific value and a blank letter is also included which the player can assume it for any letter. Each letter has some points. When a player places a tile on a square containing points, then the total points for that are calculated by multiplying the value of the tile letter and the value of the square. Variations of the board square are also available such as double letter word which means that the value of the letter will be multiplied with double the point on the board’s square.

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