75 Ball Bingo Rules

How to Play 75 Ball Bingo

75 ball bingo is the yankies favourite!  Although it’s predominantly played in the US and Canada, you’ll normally find a myriad of 75 ball rooms at UK bingo sites.  75 ball bingo can be played in a massive variety of rules and formats. Double-action cards, for instance, contain 2 numbers per square and U+Pick’Em Bingo lets users choose and place their own numbers on the card like a lottery game.  In fact, the US version of bingo is was developed loosely on the old style French “Lotto”.

In 75 ball bingo, players are given 5×5 bingo cards with 25 squares in total.  The most distinguishable part of the 75 ball bingo card is the FREE square directly in the middle. The letters B-I-N-G-O are printed above each of the 5 vertical columns.  The squares are filled with numbers between 1 and 75; the first column contains the numbers 1 to 15, the second column (“I”) contains 16 to 30… until the last column which contains the final numbers 61 to 75.  In niche 75 ball versions, the numbers 1-75 can appear in any random order across the card, however under normal circumstances, the same rules above apply.  In total, there are about 5.52*10²⁶ unique cards that can be produced in 75 ball bingo for each game.

How to Win 75 Ball Bingo

The object of the game is to mark the numbers as they are called at by the teller that forms a pre-agreed Bingo pattern which is announced at the start of the game.  There are over a hundred different patterns that can be agreed upon including traditional 1 line or 2 lines (crossing 5 horizontal or vertical numbers) or Full House and Coverall jackpot.  There are a number of unique patters too like Hangman, Cornered or the number 8 figure.  The maximum number of balls that can be called out before winning 75 ball bingo is 19.

75 Bingo Terms

Here are a number of terms that are used in 75 ball bingo games:

Waiting/Cased/Set – A player who only needs one more ball to win the bingo pattern.

Breaking the Bubble – The bubble is the minimum number of balls that can be called out before any player can win.

Jumping the Gun – Someone who accidentally calls out Bingo before they’ve won.

Standard – All numbers ending in the 2^nd digit of the first number.  For example, if 22 is called out you can dauber B2 and I2…