Draw a box for bingo game

By default, the number of values is 75, because the most popular bingo game is with numbers from 1 to The numbers in the table were found by calculating an average of all the results for each parameter. The number of winners indicated in the graph represents the average number of bingo lines 5 consecutive squares obtained among all the cards of a game.

Keep in mind that this tool is giving you average results and you can end up with slightly higher or lower numbers than the result you will get in the bingo card simulator. The only parameter you need to set when you use the bingo calculator is the number of cards in the game. The statistics on the table will update themselves automatically. You can start analyzing the results to find which number of values you need to select during your project creation.

When you create a bingo project, you set how many total values will be in the bingo card squares. The relation between the number of total values and the number of winners can be seen in the bingo calculator for 25 to total values. As you can see in the example below, you can plan to get about 25 winning lines by modifying the number of total values on the cards.

If you play a game with 50 total values in your bingo and you have players cards , you will need to play about 24 random values to get an average of 25 winning lines.

If you play a standard bingo game numbers from 1 to 75 and you have players cards , you will need to play about 35 random values to get an average of 25 winning lines.

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We cannot be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to transmit information to us by such means. A portion of the disclosure of this patent document contains material that is subject to copyright protection.

The copyright owner has no objection to the facsimile reproduction by anyone of the patent document or the patent disclosure, as it appears in the Patent and Trademark Office patent files or records, but otherwise reserves all copyright rights whatsoever. This invention pertains generally to gaming systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for playing multiple, different parallel bingo games over a very broad physical area using single centralized draws.

Each ball in the cage or enclosure is marked with a letter and number i. The balls discussed above are numbered in the same fashion i.

Players, sitting in front of the ball caller, mark a square on their bingo cards in accordance with the called balls. Typically, players use a dauber a larger colored ink marker , thus the action of a player marking their cards is called daubing. Players are responsible for recognizing when they have won one of several pre-designated winning patterns. The first player to get the overall winning pattern on one of their cards is the winner of that game, and the game ends.

An example of a winning pattern might be 5 adjacent squares in a row or column. Player purchase new cards and a new game begins. Bingo games have been automated in several ways over the years.

Another is the use of a handheld device which enable players to buy bingo cards, have them be displayed on a screen, and electronically daub the squares corresponding to drawn balls.

Finally, there are bingo game that are run entirely electronically, with a bank of machines in a casino or bingo hall connected to a common Floor Game Controller or Remote Game Controller. Players indicate which game they want to play choices are typically made based on the amount bet , and when there are enough players the game begins.

The balls are drawn electronically, and the drawn balls shown on each player's machine. The player typically pushes a button to electronically daub their cards as balls are drawn. The first player to daub manually or automatically the game-ending pattern wins, and a next game is ready to play.

The problem with existing bingo games, including manual, semi-manual, and existing electronic implementations, is that they do not enable a bingo game to be played across wide physical areas. This limits the number of players playing any one game and consequently limits the prize amounts.

In addition, there is a limitation of playing a single bingo game from each set of drawn balls. There is a need to provide a significantly larger coverage for individual bingo games, enabling more players to participate and larger prize amounts to be awarded.

The invention provides a method and apparatus enabling a single centralized system to play multiple simultaneous different bingo games using a single ball draw over an extraordinarily large area i. The central bingo system distributes master ball draws to the CBGCs, and allocates electronic bingo card ranges to CBGCs from a superset of non-repeating cards. The CBGCs will typically be reasonably close to the central bingo system and connected by a LAN, will use the first n balls of the master draw as required by the game they control, will distribute the n balls to each BGC which may be a significant physical distance from the CBGC to which it is operably networked, e.

The BGCs will distribute n balls to each player terminal or bingo electronic aid attached to it, will distribute groups of cards to bingo electronic aids, will activates cards for play as players elect to play, will play cards to detect possible bingo winning events comprised of predetermined patterns on bingo cards, will have the capability of alerting its CBGC of a potential bingo winning event , and will receive from a player the player's signal or indicia that the player has recognized the winning event and has caused the machine to recognize it, and in such cases where that is required i.

Persons of ordinary skill in the art will realize that the following description of the present invention is illustrative only and not in any way limiting. Other embodiments of the invention will readily suggest themselves to such skilled persons having the benefit of this disclosure.

Referring to the drawings, for illustrative purposes embodiments of the invention is are embodied in FIGS. It will be appreciated that the apparatus may vary as to configuration and as to details of the parts, and that the method may vary as to details and the order of the acts, without departing from the inventive concepts disclosed herein.

The current invention comprises a networked bingo gaming infrastructure that enables a single central bingo gaming machine or machines to run a plurality of bingo games which may be at a plurality of physically disparate sites, using one or more ball draws for all games, specified subsets of games, or for each game.

The present invention also enables the creation of alternative displays of a winning bingo event, where the results of a bingo win or other bingo game state are shown in a manner that has the visual appearance of a sports event, a gaming machine, or other interesting representation.

An infrastructure in accordance with an embodiment of the invention is shown in FIG. There is a ball drawing device , which may be a mechanical device operated be a person who has input means into the Central Bingo System such as a PC with a network card and a keyboard where the person types in the drawn ball numbers , an automated ball draw device having the needed electronic support to be in operable communication with Central Bingo System CBS , or a fully automated system which generates ball drawings electronically with no actual physical balls present and is in operable electronic communication to CBS It may be the case that network and network are the same network, depending on the installation.

CBS also has the software needed to run bingo games as described herein, the software being operably disposed within the CBS. The BGCs are located at remote sites from its assigned CBGC, covering any physical distance and in operable communications over network The present invention fully contemplates the ability to use any networked connection, with another preferred embodiment being an ethernet-based LAN.

There is at least one ball draw to play one or more bingo games, which may be carried out in ball drawing device or internally at CBS At least one set of bingo cards is also created in this case, electronic representations of bingo cards , where each card set is further divided into decks, with decks being kept stored electronically and distributed by CBS may also be the case that the software used to generate the bingo card sets, and then divide them into decks, also runs on CBS In one preferred embodiment, one deck at a time will be electronically sent they may be simply assigned and then drawn from, but this would only be an embodiment for less physically disparate installations to a designated CBGC.

The decks are selected by either a random method, a predetermined method, or by the type of bingo games that are being played by the individual bingo game machines controlled by each CBGC. BGCs enable individual cards to be played by individual bingo electronic aids BEAs , where there may be more than one card allocated at a time to an individual machine to be played by a player, depending on the bingo game being played and the amount the player has purchased. Reference has been made to different bingo games.

In any case, different games may require a different number of balls to be drawn. Note that the ball draws may be handled differently to conform to jurisdictional requirements. In that case, since the mere existence of a winning card is not enough to determine a winner, the entire ball sequence will be generated.

If the BEAs are auto-daubing daub the squares on a card corresponding to drawn balls without player intervention , then the ball draw sequence can stop as soon as it is determined there is a winning card. All such variations are fully contemplated by the present invention.