How to play bingo

At Maria bingo there are a huge amount of bingo games for you to play each day. You can choose to play the 90 ball British version of bingo, or the 70 ball US bingo. Here, we take you through the differences between the two games and explain how to play bingo.

How to play bingo – 90 ball

Each bingo ticket consists of 3 rows and 9 columns. Every row contains 5 numbered squares and 4 blank squares. In total each bingo ticket contains 15 numbers randomly selected from 1 to 90.

In 90 ball bingo you have three chances to win. First you play for one line, which is won when a bingo player marks all five numbers on any single horizontal row of a ticket.

The second chance comes when you play for two bingo lines, which is won by the first player to mark all the numbers on any two of the three rows on a ticket.

Finally, the third chance to win is the full house. The first bingo player to mark all 15 numbers on a ticket wins the full house. With each chance to win offering a gradually larger prize, the winner of the full house gets the biggest prize of all.

If you become the first player to win a full house within a certain number of draws, then you can win a jackpot. Every bingo game features the chance to win a jackpot, with a variety of jackpot prizes available that range from the small and easier to win, to more difficult jackpots with larger prizes.

How to play bingo – 75 ball

Once you’ve enjoyed playing 90 ball bingo, it’s time to learn how to play bingo like the Americans. In 75 ball bingo each ticket contains 5 vertical columns marked ‘B’, ‘I’, ‘N’, ‘G’ and ‘O’, and five horizontal rows, featuring a total of 25 numbers randomly selected between 1 and 75.

In 75 ball bingo there are five chances to be a winner. The first winner is the bingo player who marks off  a horizontal row, a vertical column or completes a diagonal line, in one of the 5x5 fields.

The game continues and the players will now play for two lines. Two horizontal rows must be completed in the same 5 x 5 field to win. When two lines have been completed, the players compete to complete three horizontal rows and then four.

Finally, the fifth chance to win is the full house, which is won by the first player to mark off all of the 25 numbers. As with 90 ball bingo, there are jackpot prizes available in every game.

Now you know how to play bingo the British and the American way, Maria is the place to play both games, with a huge number of prizes available every day.