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80 Ball Bingo

Posted on August 30 by Bingo Surfer in bingo No Comments
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80 ball bingo is the newest arrival on the world of online bingo and is meant to offer a compromise for players who consider 90 balls too many or 75 balls too few. With 80 ball bingo, a player who is already experienced playing either 75 ball or 90 ball bingo will find it very easy to learn as there are only a few minor variations.

One variation with 80 ball bingo is the terminology. The bingo cards used in 80 ball bingo are called shutter boards. 80 bingo tickets are arranged in four rows and four columns. The columns have differentiating colors – red, yellow, blue and silver. The 80 ball bingo board consists of 5 rows and 16 columns therefore giving a total of 80 possible numbers. The 80 numbers are then split into 4 separate groups of 20 numbers each and each group is marked by a different color. Numbers 1 to 20 are marked red, numbers 21 to 40 yellow, numbers 41 to 60 blue and numbers 61 to 80 silver. Whenever a number is called, it is shaded on bingo tickets.

How to play 80 ball bingo

The first step in playing 80 ball bingo is to purchase cards. Buying cards is easy – you simply click on the cards you wish to buy. Once you click on selected cards, the cards light up and the words “ticket selected” appear. Selected cards must be purchased and a player buys them by simply clicking on “buy tickets”. On clicking the “buy tickets” button, selected cards change color and the words “ticket bought” appear. Armed with cards, you are ready to play 80 ball bingo.

80 ball bingo can be played in a variety of patterns such as the vertical bingo, the diagonal bingo and the horizontal bingo among others. Where the stipulation is that you need a diagonal bingo to win, you should form a diagonal line across your bingo card – this line could go from the top left hand corner to the bottom right hand corner and vice versa, and includes the middle square. When a vertical bingo is needed to win, the player will be required to have five numbers aligned vertically – that is from top to bottom – on the bingo card. Getting a vertical bingo is easy as a player only needs to get four numbers down the middle and then use the free bingo space for the fifth number. The other playing patterns in 80 ball bingo follow this same pattern with only a variation in the alignment of the numbers.

As an online game, 80 ball bingo can be played at any time, 24/7. The game is extremely easy to learn and has all the excitement and adrenalin rush that bingo naturally brings. In playing 80 ball bingo, you get a chance to play with players from all over the world and also stand a great chance of making some money. Instructions on 80 ball bingo are available online should anything remain unclear to the interested player.

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Did you know that …

... there are two types of bingo played around the world?

North America plays 75-ball bingo on a 5x5 card with the centre square usually marked 'free'. In the UK, parts of Europe, Australia and parts of South America they play a 90-ball game, marked on a 9x3 card. Both types of bingo are prominent online.

Unlike balls used in regular bingo halls, online bingo sites use a random number generator. The online bingo play works almost exactly like playing online poker or online casino games with everything being virtual. Most bingo halls also offer links to online poker and casino offerings. One notable feature of online bingo is the chat functionality that gives the opportunity to interact with other players.

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If you are going to try online bingo for the first time look for the best no deposit bingo and free bingo sites. Experience the game with the calm deriving from the awareness that you are not risking your own money, nevertheless you can win some good bucks.

Progressive jackpot bingo games offer high value cash prizes. The jackpot is accumulated over a period of time, often taken from payments made to play smaller games. Usually as each new card pattern emerges, the pattern will have a number defining the amount of calls needed to claim the Jackpot. If players obtain a Bingo in this amount of calls or less then they will win the Progressive Jackpot. But rules are different for the different online bingo halls, so check before playing.

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