Bingo

Bingo

A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner.

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pattern betting

Games; Bingo

Pattern betting is marking patterns of numbers in a row to make a straight line or other design on a lotto ticket. These should be avoided as they are played heavily and would pay out little if won ...

last digit

Games; Bingo

Numbers with the same last digit. Example 20, 30, 40.

average skips

Games; Bingo

Average skips tells the average number of drawings skipped between hits for each lotto numbers. Average skips are calculated by taking the sum of all the skips for a lotto number and dividing by the ...

bell curve

Games; Bingo

A bell curve is the normal distribution, also called Gaussian distribution. The Bell curve is an extremely important probability distribution in many fields. It is often called the bell curve because ...

bias

Games; Bingo

A bias is something that has gone on too long or has gone too far out of line from the norm in lotto. To identify a bias, you must know what is the norm (the expected or the average), to have a point ...