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It has been proposed the this article be merged with Housie in Bingo. Please discuss here. (Please avoid confusing discussion by making comments about the merger only at Talk:Bingo (disambiguation). Madeinsane 00:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
These bingo rules are not the same as the bingo rules I am familiar with. Where I come from:
The rules listed above appear to be the most common rules in the United States.
I added something about what I called North American rules, but which are really the rules in southern Ontario, which are the only rules I know, so if anyone knows better than me about American rules, please fix that part up. Trontonian 17:49, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Mexican bingo is referred to as chalupa, and uses the same basic rules as for American bingo. However, the playing card is a 4X4 array, with images of simple items used instead of numbers. Images are such as "El Catrin" (The Gentleman), La Botella (The Bottle), El Alacran (The Scorpion), etc. Images are called from a deck of card which contains 56 different images. This simpler set of possibilities allows for a quicker pace. Typically the winner of the round has the option of calling the cards for the next round.
I've added a little about mechanised bingo and more about the rules of bingo. It would take a readjustment of the page to include all the major rules for bingo. Also I am only adding what I know from Working in the Bingo industry as a main stage caller, so all of my info is from UK bingo. If you want to know more or have any articles about bingo you want adding to just let me know.
Arlechinio 00:10, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
For Bingo calls, I seem to recall one '__ dozen'. Obviously if I could recal how many dozen, I would know which number...-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:2100:6b1:adaf:dd01:5036:2fcb ( talk) 07:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Has the kill-joy PC brigade in the UK banned sayings, like "two fat ladies" for the number 88?-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.198.157 ( talk) 19:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
I realize that they are similar games, but should "housie" slang be in the housie article instead?
Is there online bingo in the U. S. or Canada? I left the bit about it in because I don;t know. I removed the references to Scandinavian games, though, because they're obviously not relevant. John FitzGerald 01:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Where and when did it originate? Andycjp 08:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
is it useful to have an etymology for the term? I came to this article to check if my hunch was correct. I mean, I have no sources or anything, but it seems to me that "bingo" comes from the Latin vinco, "I win". seems that Bs and Vs are pretty similar.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.251.230.51 ( talk) 16:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Is this bit really necessary? It is at the least uncited, and at the worst a dumb joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.111.80.64 ( talk) 23:42, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I am removing it and placing it here if anyone can cite it. In any case, it doesn't belong in the lead. Jbower47 ( talk) 18:21, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
On 23 March 2011, Johnuniq removed the following link from the External links section:
Johnuniq's stated reason in the edit summary of his edit was "per WP:EL"
I looked at WP:EL and don't see why the deleted link was deemed to be something that should be deleted. Could somebody explain this? Wideangle ( talk) 19:27, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
On 24 June 2011, 129.125.101.92 removed the "Defensive omnivore bingo" item from the External links section with the comment "omnivore bingo has nothing to do with the number game this page discusses". My response is that Defensive omnivore bingo is as closely related to standard bingo as the items listed in the "Variations" and "Other forms" sections. I am therefore restoring "Defensive omnivore bingo" to the External links section. Wideangle ( talk) 23:53, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
cm se juega eso??? nose cn quien juego ayuda xfa — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.8.123.85 ( talk) 04:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
The page header contains information about the invention of the game in 1929 and it goes straight to... Zynga. I guess there are a GREAT number of versions of the game that are far more relevant than this one. This reference to a version of the game by a social network game company seems useless to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.177.173.92 ( talk) 01:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
A lot of things are useful. I think the question here was ethics. Many online game companies make Bingo. I found the reference offensive when I came to the page, so simply removed it. If you're looking for manufacturers of a game that's 500 y/o, that's what Google is for. Calling a spade a spade, and a conflict of interest just that- a COI. Ninavizz 08:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninavizz ( talk • contribs)
In Nova Scotia there is a drive-in movie theater that has a fun variation. Same rules, but you tune your radio to the frequency of the theater (as if you were going to watch a movie) and they call the numbers over the radio. You shout bingo by honking your car horn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.238.86.148 ( talk) 16:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
This page is one of a set of pages that need more references. It is a nice page but no references just a lot of possible half-truths. Started to add references and references are removed. Just going backwards in time? Add references or find better ones, don't remove references blindly. 15-20 sections and 5-6 references. How does anyone know this is not a lot of bs? One reference seems to be better than none. You need to start somewhere....Moving On... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.102.226.45 ( talk) 00:06, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Class II machines are typical called Bingo machines because of the software structure, but these games look like a regular slot machine. Where Electronic Bingo or Video Bingo should refer to an electronic video bingo game, where you can play bingo electronically. Maybe there is a better way to post this. -- Edelg003 ( talk) 22:24, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
"He went on to copyright 'Bingo'" ... what is this claim supposed to mean? Nobody copyrighted the word "Bingo". A word can't be copyrighted. This appears to be an unsupported claim, and it doesn't correspond with the fact that "Bingo" cannot be copyrighted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 ( talk) 16:21, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Mom (an inveterate Bingo player) asked me how the game came about, and what the actual chances of winning are for various games. I recommended Wikipedia, and she found the article disappointing, a sentiment with which I agree. So, a few open questions:
Why 25 spaces? In particular, why five columns of five numbers? Why the central "free" spot?
The statistics ought to be laid out more completely, rather than just dumping some (unexplained) stats math & a Really Big Number on readers. Spell it out in English! How many five-number sets are possible in each column? How many variations of each set are possible? Similarly, how many collections of 24 numbers could in theory exist without repetition? and how many variations can appear of those same 24 numbers?
It boggles me somewhat that carnivals could have produced these cards themselves back in the 1920s. At the same time, in modern times I can't imagine how it is that these randomized layouts of randomly selected numbers can be so readily printed.
John Scarne addressed Bingo cheating. How is card production audited? Are there laws that regulate this? What sorts of controls are used on the cards to prevent someone from smuggling in their own cards?
There are parlors that don't "read back" the numbers to verify a winning combination, instead calling out (as in the U.K. version) a security code printed on the particular card that somehow validates that the card does indeed contain the numbers that have been called to achieve that combination. How the heck (briefly) does THAT work?
Some years back,
Paul Harvey presented a long
The Rest of the Story segment where he talked about a wealthy man who hired a renowned mathematician to produce these randomized collections of numbers, one after the other, and worked him hard for years, paying very well but eventually driving the mathematician into a lunatic asylum. Given the gazillions of possible cards, this seems somewhat unlikely but it stuck in my head & is possibly still floating around somewhere as an
urban legend, particularly if it was included in either of the volumes collecting Harvey's
tall tales.
Weeb Dingle (
talk)
18:17, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
What do the numbers at the top of the bingo game mean and what do you do with them
Dee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:2100:6B1:ADAF:DD01:5036:2FCB ( talk) 07:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
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It has been proposed the this article be merged with Housie in Bingo. Please discuss here. (Please avoid confusing discussion by making comments about the merger only at Talk:Bingo (disambiguation). Madeinsane 00:52, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
These bingo rules are not the same as the bingo rules I am familiar with. Where I come from:
The rules listed above appear to be the most common rules in the United States.
I added something about what I called North American rules, but which are really the rules in southern Ontario, which are the only rules I know, so if anyone knows better than me about American rules, please fix that part up. Trontonian 17:49, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Mexican bingo is referred to as chalupa, and uses the same basic rules as for American bingo. However, the playing card is a 4X4 array, with images of simple items used instead of numbers. Images are such as "El Catrin" (The Gentleman), La Botella (The Bottle), El Alacran (The Scorpion), etc. Images are called from a deck of card which contains 56 different images. This simpler set of possibilities allows for a quicker pace. Typically the winner of the round has the option of calling the cards for the next round.
I've added a little about mechanised bingo and more about the rules of bingo. It would take a readjustment of the page to include all the major rules for bingo. Also I am only adding what I know from Working in the Bingo industry as a main stage caller, so all of my info is from UK bingo. If you want to know more or have any articles about bingo you want adding to just let me know.
Arlechinio 00:10, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
For Bingo calls, I seem to recall one '__ dozen'. Obviously if I could recal how many dozen, I would know which number...-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:2100:6b1:adaf:dd01:5036:2fcb ( talk) 07:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Has the kill-joy PC brigade in the UK banned sayings, like "two fat ladies" for the number 88?-— Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.198.157 ( talk) 19:53, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
I realize that they are similar games, but should "housie" slang be in the housie article instead?
Is there online bingo in the U. S. or Canada? I left the bit about it in because I don;t know. I removed the references to Scandinavian games, though, because they're obviously not relevant. John FitzGerald 01:32, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
Where and when did it originate? Andycjp 08:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
is it useful to have an etymology for the term? I came to this article to check if my hunch was correct. I mean, I have no sources or anything, but it seems to me that "bingo" comes from the Latin vinco, "I win". seems that Bs and Vs are pretty similar.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.251.230.51 ( talk) 16:28, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Is this bit really necessary? It is at the least uncited, and at the worst a dumb joke. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.111.80.64 ( talk) 23:42, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
I am removing it and placing it here if anyone can cite it. In any case, it doesn't belong in the lead. Jbower47 ( talk) 18:21, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
On 23 March 2011, Johnuniq removed the following link from the External links section:
Johnuniq's stated reason in the edit summary of his edit was "per WP:EL"
I looked at WP:EL and don't see why the deleted link was deemed to be something that should be deleted. Could somebody explain this? Wideangle ( talk) 19:27, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
On 24 June 2011, 129.125.101.92 removed the "Defensive omnivore bingo" item from the External links section with the comment "omnivore bingo has nothing to do with the number game this page discusses". My response is that Defensive omnivore bingo is as closely related to standard bingo as the items listed in the "Variations" and "Other forms" sections. I am therefore restoring "Defensive omnivore bingo" to the External links section. Wideangle ( talk) 23:53, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
cm se juega eso??? nose cn quien juego ayuda xfa — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.8.123.85 ( talk) 04:07, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
The page header contains information about the invention of the game in 1929 and it goes straight to... Zynga. I guess there are a GREAT number of versions of the game that are far more relevant than this one. This reference to a version of the game by a social network game company seems useless to me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.177.173.92 ( talk) 01:02, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
A lot of things are useful. I think the question here was ethics. Many online game companies make Bingo. I found the reference offensive when I came to the page, so simply removed it. If you're looking for manufacturers of a game that's 500 y/o, that's what Google is for. Calling a spade a spade, and a conflict of interest just that- a COI. Ninavizz 08:20, 13 March 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ninavizz ( talk • contribs)
In Nova Scotia there is a drive-in movie theater that has a fun variation. Same rules, but you tune your radio to the frequency of the theater (as if you were going to watch a movie) and they call the numbers over the radio. You shout bingo by honking your car horn. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.238.86.148 ( talk) 16:49, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
This page is one of a set of pages that need more references. It is a nice page but no references just a lot of possible half-truths. Started to add references and references are removed. Just going backwards in time? Add references or find better ones, don't remove references blindly. 15-20 sections and 5-6 references. How does anyone know this is not a lot of bs? One reference seems to be better than none. You need to start somewhere....Moving On... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.102.226.45 ( talk) 00:06, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Class II machines are typical called Bingo machines because of the software structure, but these games look like a regular slot machine. Where Electronic Bingo or Video Bingo should refer to an electronic video bingo game, where you can play bingo electronically. Maybe there is a better way to post this. -- Edelg003 ( talk) 22:24, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
"He went on to copyright 'Bingo'" ... what is this claim supposed to mean? Nobody copyrighted the word "Bingo". A word can't be copyrighted. This appears to be an unsupported claim, and it doesn't correspond with the fact that "Bingo" cannot be copyrighted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.68.134.1 ( talk) 16:21, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
Mom (an inveterate Bingo player) asked me how the game came about, and what the actual chances of winning are for various games. I recommended Wikipedia, and she found the article disappointing, a sentiment with which I agree. So, a few open questions:
Why 25 spaces? In particular, why five columns of five numbers? Why the central "free" spot?
The statistics ought to be laid out more completely, rather than just dumping some (unexplained) stats math & a Really Big Number on readers. Spell it out in English! How many five-number sets are possible in each column? How many variations of each set are possible? Similarly, how many collections of 24 numbers could in theory exist without repetition? and how many variations can appear of those same 24 numbers?
It boggles me somewhat that carnivals could have produced these cards themselves back in the 1920s. At the same time, in modern times I can't imagine how it is that these randomized layouts of randomly selected numbers can be so readily printed.
John Scarne addressed Bingo cheating. How is card production audited? Are there laws that regulate this? What sorts of controls are used on the cards to prevent someone from smuggling in their own cards?
There are parlors that don't "read back" the numbers to verify a winning combination, instead calling out (as in the U.K. version) a security code printed on the particular card that somehow validates that the card does indeed contain the numbers that have been called to achieve that combination. How the heck (briefly) does THAT work?
Some years back,
Paul Harvey presented a long
The Rest of the Story segment where he talked about a wealthy man who hired a renowned mathematician to produce these randomized collections of numbers, one after the other, and worked him hard for years, paying very well but eventually driving the mathematician into a lunatic asylum. Given the gazillions of possible cards, this seems somewhat unlikely but it stuck in my head & is possibly still floating around somewhere as an
urban legend, particularly if it was included in either of the volumes collecting Harvey's
tall tales.
Weeb Dingle (
talk)
18:17, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
What do the numbers at the top of the bingo game mean and what do you do with them
Dee — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:2100:6B1:ADAF:DD01:5036:2FCB ( talk) 07:24, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect
History of Bingo and has thus listed it
for discussion. This discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 27#History of Bingo until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
Steel1943 (
talk)
17:24, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect
Christmas bingo and has thus listed it
for discussion. This discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 27#Christmas bingo until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
Steel1943 (
talk)
17:26, 27 September 2022 (UTC)