Category : Player Tips

Speed Up 90 Ball Bingo – Learn the Numbers

In any game of bingo, you know that the person who gets there first wins the prize. While the numbers called will always be somewhere on your screen, by the time you look down to see what numbers have been called and daub them on the appropriate tickets, someone else could have already called the bingo. When playing 90 ball bingo it is even more important to keep up with the numbers because there are six tickets you will be playing with! They are lined up in a strip of six and each ticket will be 3 rows by 9 columns. Each row will have 5 numbers on it and when you have daubed a complete line, it’s a bingo. Stage two is two lines and stage three is all three lines on the same ticket, commonly referred to as a full house.

To speed up the game, learn where you can find your numbers! Column one will have numbers 1 through 9, while column two will have 10 through 19. The third column is 20 through 29, the fourth 30 through 39, the fifth 40 through 49, the sixth 50 through 59, the seventh 60 through 69 and the eighth has 70 through 79. Finally, since there are 90 numbers, the last column has eleven numbers running from 80 to 90. By learning which column the numbers fall in, when they are called you can quickly spot them on the appropriate ticket to daub them quickly. If you want to win the game, speed is of the essence!

How 90 Ball Bingo is Won

Playing 90 ball bingo is so much fun because you can potentially win up to three times in one game! As the strips are set up, there are 6 tickets per strip with each ticket having 3 rows and 9 columns. The important thing to remember when playing 90 ball bingo is that each line (row) will have exactly 5 numbers filled in spread out across those 9 columns. That is all you will really be concerned with.

The game is played in three distinct stages. The first stage is where balls are called and the player who is able to daub all numbers across any single line first wins that round. There is always a potential for two or more players to get 5 numbers in a line all at the same time. When this occurs, they split the prize for that round. The game continues until someone is able to daub all the numbers on 2 lines in the same ticket. Again, more than one player can daub in two lines simultaneously, which means the prize will be divided among them.

To win the jackpot in 90 ball bingo, a player would have to daub three complete lines on the same ticket. This is referred to as a full house. There have been times when more than one player could call the full house (3 lines on the same ticket) at the same time, but that is very infrequent. The first player to get a full house needs to call it immediately because the game will continue until it has been called. Each successive stage increases the jackpot until full house is won.