bingo is a free multiplayer verision of the chance game bingo.
a game commonly used for low-stakes gambling, in which numbered balls or slips are drawn at random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards, called Bingo cards, which have square arrangement of such numbers. Each card has a different arrangement of the numbers, and the first player to cover all numbers in one row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) is the winner, usually announcing that fact by a cry of "Bingo!"
The original name for keno. Although keno and bingo are very different today, both use similar balls to represent numbers drawn.
The name of the game / the winning shout
A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a specified pattern of numbers (such as a row) wins.
a full row covered across, down, or diagonally
a single row (horizontal, vertical or diagonal)
When a player has all the numbers required for the game or "pattern" being played. This is when you may yell "BINGO!" At this time, all the other players who were "on" murmur "Oh, shucks!" The Bingo Today newspaper has launched a national campaign to rename the game "Oh, shucks." To date there has little support for this revolutionary idea. If they can call the game "Beano" in Massachusetts, why can't we call it "Oh, shucks" in the State of Washington
a game of chance where players are awarded a prize or prizes for being the first to complete a specified arrangement of numbers on bingo paper, based on numbers selected at random.
A game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards (syn: lotto, beano, keno) - A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner.
A game of chance played with cards having numbered squares corresponding to numbered balls drawn at random and won by covering five such squares in a row.
A game played with cards (5 x 5), where a person wins the game if he makes a match.
A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner. Bingo, since it was played in different countries and during different occasions, has come out with rather strange and bewildering terms that are commonly used now. Some of the most common terms that are used in Bingo are
Bingo is a prize game played in halls. Basically, players buy cards with numbers on them in a 5 x 5 grid corresponding to the five letters in the word B-I-N-G-O. Numbers such as B-2 or 0-68 are then drawn at random (out of a possible 75 in American Bingo, and 90 in British and Australian Bingo) until one player completes a 'Bingo' line with five numbers in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal row on one of their cards and wins the prize. Bingo rules and payouts and play variations vary from place to place.
A game of chance played for prizes, including monetary prizes, with cards bearing numbers or other designations in which the holder of the card covers such numbers or designations when objects, similarly numbered or designated, are drawn or electronically determined, and in which the game is won by the first person covering a previously designated arrangement of numbers or designations of the cards, including (if played in the same location) pull-tabs, lotto, punch boards, tip jars, instant bingo, and other games similar to bingo.
beano [colloq.] (esp. bingo using beans as markers)
A game of chance where the players use a board that is divided up into squares. The squares are all numbered, and the numbers are picked randomly from a container of some kind. The first person to match the numbers picked on their game card in a row, across, horizontally, or diagonally wins.
A prize game in which players purchase cards with numbers on them in a 5x5 grid corresponding to the letters in the word BINGO. Numbers are called at random, and the first player to complete the word BINGO in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal line wins a prize.
what you shout when you have won, or the Bingo site flashes up to say there is a winner. The game is now over.
Bingo is a gambling card game named by analogy to the game bingo. Each player is dealt X cards and Y cards are dealt face down in common. The value of each hand is the sum of the values of each card, where the cards have blackjack values.
Housie is a gambling game played in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, where it is called Bingo. Players mark off numbers on a ticket as they are randomly called out, in order to achieve a winning combination.