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Free bingo is played in halls. Free bingo rules and payouts and play variations vary from place to place. Free bingo brochures detailing particular free bingo games, rules and payouts are usually available at each respective location.
Basically, free bingo players buy free bingo cards with numbers on them in a 5 x 5 grid corresponding to the five letters in the word B-I-N-G-O. Numbers such as B-2 or 0-68 are then drawn at random (out of a possible 75 in American Free bingo, and 90 in British and Australian Free bingo) until one free bingo player completes a Free bingo pattern, such as a line with five numbers in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal row on one of their free bingo cards and wins the prize. There are many possible patterns to play for.
A free bingo card contains 24 numbered spaces and one free space (blank), with which you play FREE BINGO. The numbers are assigned at random on each free bingo card and are arranged in five columns of five numbers each by five rows (5 x 5 = 25 in total including the blank square).
The numbers in the B column are between 1 and 15, in the I column between 16 and 30, in the N column (containing four numbers and the free space) between 31 and 45, in the G column between 46 and 60, and in the O column between 61 and 75.
Free bingo players have thousands of unique (unduplicated) free bingo cards to choose from. Some manufacturers print unduplicated series of 6,000 free bingo cards. There are also series of 9,000 free bingo cards available. Hard free bingo cards and Flimsy free bingo cards have a series number printed on them. For example, free bingo card number 1252 will always have the same numbers in the same spaces.
Free bingo in the United Kingdom and Australia
In the U.K. Free bingo is played mainly in large free bingo halls with free bingo cash prizes, the larger commercial concerns are linked up with other free bingo halls during one particular free bingo game in the evening and large free bingo cash sums can be won on these.
It is also played in nearly every seaside town in the U.K. on screens in front of the free bingo player who pulls a slide across to cover the number called, but, presumably because of our gambling laws, there are no free bingo cash prizes, just various items like cuddly toys.
The other times Free bingo is played, again for prizes, not free bingo cash, is in a myriad of local halls or schools around the country, usually as a fund raiser for various concerns like an old people’s Day Centre. Here the prizes are donated by shopkeepers and businesses in the town and surrounding area and the atmosphere at these Free bingo free bingo games is usually very relaxed and a fun evening out where everyone is welcome, even children.
The prizes vary for these free bingo games but on average a prize for any one line is worth about £1.00 - £2.50 (depending on who is organising the free bingo evening), any 2 lines would be worth about £2 - £5 and a full house (all the numbers on a free bingo card) worth £5 - £10. They could be boxes of chocolates, bottles of wine, a grocery hamper, a voucher from a local butcher for meat or a cream tea for two at a local tea-shop or even 2 free passes to a swimming pool. Anything really.
U.K. (and Australian) free bingo free bingo cards have three lines and nine columns (see picture above) and usually come in Books; single or multiple. A single book would contain ten 10 pages (10 free bingo cards) each of a different colour: Gold, Lime, Violet, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Orange, Blue, Red and White.
A multiple book has 6 single books. Each page in a multiple book has 6 free bingo cards of the same colour. The 6 free bingo cards on a page are joined with perforated edges and can be pulled apart. Experienced free bingo players will play all 6 books and inexperienced free bingo players or young children may only play 1 book, or even a single free bingo card.
As well as books, there are also single sheets of free bingo free bingo cards sold with the 6 sections on (six free bingo cards) and these are called Flyers. Again you can buy just one section or 6 to suit your pocket or your experience. The flyers cost more per free bingo game than on the books but the prizes are usually worth a bit more.
In the large towns and cities Free bingo is fairly ig business and people play in deadly earnest, hoping to win that elusive jackpot. In small towns and villages it’s much more of a social occasion with amateur callers and a lot lighter atmosphere.
Australia uses the same free bingo free bingo cards as in the U.K. In Sydney and Melbourne the callers are incredibly fast. In Perth they call a lot slower.
Number calling
The numbers are announced quickly by the Caller, so you must pay careful attention to the numbers that are called and mark them quickly and accurately on your free bingo card(s).
The caller keeps calling numbers until one or more free bingo players claim FREE BINGO. Then the free bingo game stops and the numbers are verified. If there is a winner, the prize is awarded and a new free bingo game begins with new free bingo cards. If there is more than one winner, the prize is split among all the winners.
In Las Vegas many variations including Letter X, Six Pack and Coverall Free bingo are offered. Additionally, some places offer special progressive payouts as high as $10,000.
Online Free bingo
When playing online, your free bingo free bingo cards are randomly selected for you. Most online free bingo games give you 3 or 4 free bingo cards. Other free bingo games let you take more.
Every online free bingo game has a caller or a display board for the free bingo numbers. The free bingo game pattern is also displayed. Some free bingo games automatically mark the numbers on your free bingo card for you. | 
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