New Player's Guide To Bingo

A bingo card is the basic unit of play in a bingo game. Printed on paper or generated by computer, all bingo cards contain five columns of five numbers between 1 and 75.

From left to right, each column is headed by a letter: B, I, N, G or O. The center spot (the third number down in the "N" column) is always given to the player, and often is marked "Free."

A generic bingo card could look like this:

B	I	N	G	O
14	16	44	59	62
3	20	34	55	70
11	30	free	46	74
8	24	40	50	67
5	17	36	54	72

All Bingo Zone bingo cards are generated randomly by the Bingo Zone server, or main computer, and are valid for one game only. At the start of a game, all players receive new bingo cards every game.

One more thing: A bingo card's "B" column may only contain numbers from 1 to 15; the "I" column may only contain 16 to 30; the "N" column 31 to 45, the "G" column 46 to 60, and the "O" column 61-75. In other words...

B = 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15
I = 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
N = 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45
G = 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60
O = 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75

Also: Bingo Lingo!