Understanding 90-Ball Bingo
90-Ball Bingo is the standard game of bingo in the United Kingdom and one of the most popular versions of it. The game entails a bingo caller pulling out balls numbered from 1 to 90 and calling out these numbers so that the players can check whether the numbers match the numbers on the tickets or cards they have bought for the game. Italy is believed to be the birthplace of bingo, where it originally began as a lottery, all the way back in the 16 th century. The game spread to France, where it underwent some modifications, and then to Germany, where it was used as an educational game. Bingo would reach the UK in the 1800s, but become especially popular the following century, during wartime and afterwards . By the time it reached the US in 1929, where it was a carnival game, people in nations across the world were playing bingo. Below is a look at how to play 90-ball bingo, the reasons it’s so popular in the UK and how the game transitioned from halls to be...