No one could live long enough to print every possible bingo card. How is this possible? In bingo there are seventy-five numbers broken up into five groups of fifteen numbers each, B-1 thru 15, I-16 thru 30, N-31 thru 45, G-46 thru 60, and O-61 thru 75. The game card has five columns corresponding to the letters B-I-N-G-O. The player’s card has twenty four numbers, five numbers pre-printed in four of the columns under the B-I-G-O and four numbers under the N.
Calculating the total number of possible combinations yields the result that there exists 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000,000. (That’s 552-million-billion-billion or 0.5 quadrillion) possible game cards. There would be 111,007,923,832,371,000 sets of game cards with 4,976,640,000 cards (almost 55 billion) in each set. Every card in each set would have the same twenty four numbers, but in a different arrangement on each card.
If we presume that there are six billion people in the world today, it means that there are 92,074,412,343,521,400 cards for each and every person in the world. If you could print a million game cards per second, it would take 17,505,972,382,599.7 years to print every possible BINGO game card.
If you put four cards on a standard 8-1/2 X 11 sheet of paper, and if you spread all of the cards out over the surface of the earth, they would cover the earth to a depth of over 800 miles. If there were one million game cards per inch of height, and all of the possible cards were put in one stack, the stack would extend for 1485 light-years. (A light year is 6-trillion miles.) Alpha Centuri, our nearest star beyond the Sun, is only 4 light-years away.
Here’s some more proof.
You can have 120 different arrangements of five numbers under each of the four columns under the B, I, G, and O. You can have 24 different arrangements of the four numbers under the N. So, 120 times, 120 times, times 24, times 120, times 120 equals 4,976,640,000. That’s the number of bingo game cards that could exist, all with the same twenty-four numbers, but just in a different arrangement on each card.
Doing the arithmetic then, there are 111,007,923,832,371,000 possible unique BINGO combinations where no two cards would have the same twenty four numbers. (That’s 111-million-million.)
There are so many ways in which you can play a Bingo game. Of course, the way you approach the game will definitely affect the outcome, that is whether you win the game. In a nutshell, it boils down too the fact that you will need to catch the right card that will award you the prize.
Let me share with you 5 of these winning tips that I personally find it to be useful.
1) You can search out some cards containing your lucky numbers or birthdates. It can also be a combination of both or other preferred numbers that you might have.
2) You can work on a system which uses numbers that appear more frequently. This is based on the theory that if the numbers are “hot”, they are most likely to appear again. You can also choose the opposite method where you uses numbers which are outdated and thus more likely to appear. However, both methods require you to do some homework.
3) You may want to work on a system that combines the best of both worlds. In other words, you will look out for cards that combine hot numbers with outdated ones. This combination might turn out to be an easy winner in some cases.
4) You may simply choose to randomly choose a card and allow destiny to decide this will be your lucky day. There are countless cases where a player simply play a single card and win on their first try.
Whatever method you use, bingo is a great way to enjoy yourself and you will find it to be addictive in no time. However, you must be alert as the game is in play so that you miss out any winning numbers and the chance to bring home the big prize. Enjoy
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