Each player must be armed with at least one game card to play Party Bingo, though many players, serious Party Bingo fanatics, play multiple cards, as many as 20 or more for one game.

Party Bingo cards are either purchased individually for each game, included as part of the admission price, or even sold as part of a package covering many games. Whatever the procedure, the player’s Party Bingo card or cards contains the numbers which may or may not turn out to be winners.

Before the game begins, the caller announces the type of PartyBingo game that will be played. There are many types of Party Bingo games available, from the standard one line types, to games as creative as the promoters or callers pull from their imagination or experience. We’ll take a look at some of these types later. party bingo bonus code

The Object of the Game

Players win in Party Bingo by completing a pre­scribed pattern on their card. Before any balls are drawn, the call will announce the pattern in force for the game and that pattern is the one that needs to be completed for a winner.

The patterns change from game to game, thus each new game may require a new pattern to be played.

Unlike keno, where players pick there own numbers and the game is played out until 80 num­bers are drawn, in Party Bingo, players numbers are predetermined by the cards they receive and the game is over as soon as there is a winning Party Bingo or Party Bingos. Also, unlike keno, there is always a winner in Party Bingo and often more than one.

Standard Party Bingo Winners

Let’s look at the basic patterns that form Party Bingos in a standard game: diagonal, horizontal, vertical and coverall Party Bingos.

These standard Party Bingos all use the middle square in the “N” column, the free square, as part of the winning pattern.

The Four Basic Winning Party Bingos

We’ll begin by showing the four basic winning patterns used in Party Bingo: the horizontal, vertical, diagonal, and coverall patterns.

Horizontal Party Bingo

A standard Party Bingo formed by five numbers in a straight horizontal line.

Horizontal Party Bingo

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Vertical Party Bingo

A standard Party Bingo formed by five numbers in a straight vertical line.

Vertical Party Bingo

Diagonal Party Bingo

A standard Party Bingo formed by five numbers formed in a straight horizontal line which includes the middle “free” square.

Diagonal Party Bingo

Coverall or Blackout Party Bingo

This one takes more work than the others for you need to catch all the numbers on your card to win the blackout or coverall Party Bingo.

Coverall or Blackout Party Bingo

There are many more patterns used in Party Bingo games, and we’ll look at some of those in our upcoming examples, as well as later on in the book. Now, let’s turn our attention to how the game is played.