Bingo Strategy

When playing bingo, everyone is looking for a strategy that will put them ahead of other players. While it may sound simple to listen for numbers, mark them on a card, and call bingo if you have the pattern, that is not always the case. Many no deposit bingo clubs have come up with tons of patterns and ways to play. They do this while trying to keep the game interesting. How much fun could it be to sit through hundreds of games simply looking for a straight line?

There are, however, a few problems with these new patterns. Many of these new ways to bingo have different names or variations. While you may call a pattern a "T" others may refer to it as a "cross". You have to make sure you are familiar with the terminology being used. At the same time, make sure you know what the term means where you are playing. A "T" at one club may be one line down the middle and another across the top. However, down the road it might be a vertical and horizontal middle line resembling a lower case "t".

There are also variations such as crazy "T". In this case you may be able to form a "T" in any direction, For example, upside down, or at a ninety degree left or right turn. This can also become very confusing with the different shapes. Some clubs use snake, flag, postage stamp, and many other patterns. Then they twist them around by adding crazy to the title. These can confuse novice players when trying to manage multiple cards. While most clubs have a program or sign on the board overhead to display the pattern, it can still be no walk in the park.

Another issue to be aware of is the type of game you are playing. There are games that start out with a single line, progresses to a pattern, and are finally finished by a complete blackout. In these situations there can be a winner for each style all in one game. If you are really lucky, you could end up wining multiple times off one card in one game, though this is not the normal way it has been done. The best strategies you can have to play bingo online, is know what re playing and how you can win. Then you just sit back and mark the numbers.

Being that bingo is a game of chance, and the numbered balls are drawn randomly, most people dispel the possibility of bingo having a strategy. Turns out that the very statement that people use to dispel the possibility is the reason a strategy exists.

Say of the 75 numbers to be chosen, the first called is number 16. What this does is slightly reduce the odds that another ball ending in 6 will be drawn again. Similarly, the odds are greater that a higher number will be pulled next, as well as an odd number. The premise is that as the sample size (balls that have been pulled) increases and approaches the size of the population (all balls 1-75) the attributes of the sample will more closely reflect the attributes of the population. For instance, the average of all numbers 1-75 is 38, so the average of numbers pulled should approach 38 with each new number.

What this boils down to is card choice. As each new ball is pulled you will begin to notice the numbers are evenly spread among:

1) Numbers ending in 0-9

2) Odd and even numbers

3) High and low numbers

However, there is a degree of variability that you can not eliminate. This variability usually begins to show up after about 6 numbers are chosen. The first 6 numbers will probably all end in with a different digit, but around the 7th pick a duplicate will appear (like 24 and 54). This variation cannot be explained or predicted.

All of the complicated calculation that goes into this can be easily simplified. In choosing a card, look along horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines for a good balance of high/low, odd/even and ending digits. Pay careful attention to the lines that only require 4 matching numbers to win.

You cannot predict the numbers that will be called, but you can choose a card that is compatible with the laws of probability.