90 Ball Bingo
90-Ball Bingo is a bingo game traditionally played in the United Kingdom and in Australia. The game is similar to 75-Bingo, except played with 90 balls, where players purchase Cards/Tickets, then mark the numbers that are called in the hopes to be the first player who correctly completes the winning pattern.
However, the basic foundations of the two games are the much same although there are many differences. In the 90-Ball Bingo cards have three rows and nine columns. Five squares in each row contain numbers ranging from 1 to 90 and the rest are blank.
The winning patterns are always the same because there are usually three patterns in 90 ball bingo games. Each bingo game usually has three patterns and each of the three patterns has a prize associated with it. The patterns include:
- Single Line Across (Line) - The first player to correctly cross off any horizontal Line
- Two Lines Across (Two Lines) - The first player to correctly cross off any two horizontal Lines
- Full House - The first player to correctly cross off all three Lines
90-Ball Bingo is almost always played with Strips of six Tickets. The Strip contains all 90 numbers distributed throughout the 6 Tickets in a Dab-All format. If a Strip (6 Tickets) is played in one bingo game then every possible number from 1 -90 is covered and therefore, a number will be marked at each bingo call.