Playing Bingo Is For Everyone!
When a census was taken at a Home for the Abandoned and Rejected Elderly to determine the best amusement game they favored, Bingo was the number one choice. Why? Because it is fun and easy .
Yes, it's a relaxing game. It transform their dull days into something useful. You cannot discount the elderly with impaired vision or the hearing impaired to play bingo. Handicaps are set aside and used to its optimum usefulness. Bingo is reminiscent of their childhood and teenage life when bingo was held at almost every party or get together accompanied with prizes - valuables and money.
It is a game of chance and luck. It meant filling the bingo card with number called under a specific letter of the word BINGO. For example, when the dealer shakes a wicker jar with all the chip numbers inside and takes out a number and reads it as B4. The player looks at his card and checks whether is the the number 4 in the column of B. Then he places a stone or shell to match that particular number. The caller shakes out another number and the players again check whether his card contains the number 35 under the column NN, And it goes on until all numbers are picked at random are horizontally arranged.
The player who complete this successfully must shout Bingo to declare that he won the Horizontal bingo game. Sometimes, in the excitement of the game, a player makes a wrong bingo to the joy of the other players who are still close to winning a bingo. The game continues until a player has made a good bingo.
Some of the bingo games are the Vertical, the Horizontal, the Diagonal, the Big Square, the Small Square and the Blackout. The Blackout bingo is the most awaited since it rewards the player the biggest award of money or a very enticing oodles of trips, cars, and appliances, Blackout bingo requires the player to fill out the entire card with the numbers called at random.
A shout that says "Bingo" must be declare by a player but all the other players are advised to hold on to their cards until a good bingo is announced. Mistakes do happen. When it is a good bingo the players clear the card and get ready for the next game.
The cards are bought for a price. Each player can buy one or two cards and play them simultaneously to have a bigger chance of winning. The numbers on the cards are arranged at random. No one can tell which card will give a good bingo. Pick a card and feel lucky for there are as many arrangements available. Players choose the cards where they feel lucky.
Children that can read the letters B-I-N-G-O and can identify and recognize numbers are welcome. Parents encourage their children to play thus increasing the family odds of winning.
Especially when the price is right . How about a free trip to Hongkong or to the U.S as a grand prize?
The game can go on the whole night until a player tires or the hall closes, or at informal home gatherings when the caller is afflicted with a sore throat or it's LIGHTS OUT.