American Bingo

    American Bingo is a paper game played with two or more players on a 5x5 grid of paper. The first player to collect all five horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines on the paper wins. Originally popular in the United States and Canada, it is now also popular in other regions.

    There are also other variations of the game, or it can be played as a group game.

    How to play

    In Taiwan, for example, two people play the game with two people. Two people randomly fill in the numbers from 1 to 25 on their respective papers, and then the two people take turns to specify the numbers and mark the numbers on the paper that they or the other person has specified, if there are five numbers marked on the same vertical or horizontal line, or five numbers marked on a diagonal line, that is, the set of a line is full, and if the set of five lines is already full, then it is possible to yell If five lines have been set, you can call “Bingo” and that person wins.

    If more than one person to play this game, each person's respective paper randomly filled with numbers from 1 to 25, hosted by a person, not in order to read the numbers from 1 to 25 (but can not be repeated), the set of five lines can be shouted “bingo”, the person wins.

    Now there are also some ready-made American-style bingo cards, pre-printed with numbers, each different, randomized at the time of purchase.

    Group Games

    Bingo can be derived as a group game, a warm-up game to get to know each other, usually for 25 or more people.

    The game still uses paper with 5x5 squares, but there are conditions listed on each of the 25 squares, for example, one square is “girls” and one is “people wearing pants”, so everyone needs to find 25 people who meet the conditions in the 25 squares and ask them to sign. After everyone has finished, the host will randomly read out the names of the people present, the names are listed on the paper can be marked in that grid, the set of five lines can be shouted “bingo”, this person wins.

    This game can also be simplified, 25 grids are not listed above the conditions, by everyone randomly find 25 people to sign.