How To Play UK 90 Ball Bingo
Playing bingo is easy and great fun, after a few practice goes you will be playing like a pro.
Bingo traditionally in the UK is played in bingo halls, each player marks off the numbers from (1-90) called out by the bingo caller on their bingo tickets, using a bingo dauber, until there is a winner.
(Please note USA bingo is played with 75 balls which some online UK bingo sites do offer. We will cover this later)
A winner is the first player to mark off all their numbers on a ticket according to the designated winning pattern.
Online Bingo is played in exactly the same way, except since its online there are more games taking place and it is 24 hour play.
Online Bingo Ticket Each individual grid of numbers is referred to as a Ticket. Tickets are 3 rows by 9 columns. Each row contains 5 numbers and 4 blank spaces.
The strips
Six consecutively numbered tickets on the same card are referred to as Strips. Each Strip contains all 90 numbers distributed throughout the tickets, therefore, the player who buys a Strip will cross off a number at each call.
Winning patterns and prizes
Normally, the three winning patterns are firstly One Line, then Two Lines and then onto a full house Full House
To claim One Line, you need to mark off all the numbers on a single horizontal line on any one of your tickets.
To claim Two Lines, you must mark off all the numbers on two lines of a same ticket.
You have a Full House when you mark off all numbers on anyone of your tickets.
Prizes for each winning pattern generally depending on the number of players and the cost of each individual ticket.
