I had last played bingo in kindergarten, so I was a bit unsure of the rules of the game.
If you, like I was, are not familiar with bingo, here’s a quick primer.
For starters, the bingo played at Upanga Club is the version of the game played in the Commonwealth—not American bingo.
In essence, each player has a card with the numbers 1 to 90 on it, arranged in six 9×3 grids (these grids have empty boxes but all the numbers 1 to 90 appear once on each card).
A caller then calls out random numbers between 1 and 90, and the players mark off these numbers on their cards as they are called out.
When the marked numbers form a specific configuration, such as having all the numbers in one line of the card marked off, or the numbers in an entire 9×3 grid marked off, the player then calls bingo.
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The first person to achieve the specific configuration mentioned at the beginning of the round wins a prize.
That’s basically it but you can find more details here.
With my bingo card in hand (along with a clipboard and pen provided by the club), I was all set for my first round of “Indian” bingo.
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