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Business Aspects of Housie

Posted by Nicolae on November 1st, 2008 under Business, Gambling industry, Housie
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In New Zealand and Australia, housie is often used a fundraiser by churches, sports teams, and other groups, and raffles are sold before the game.
Bingo, as housie is known as in the UK (not to be confused with the similar US game Bingo), is an expanding and highly profitable business, with many [...]

Description of the housie game

Posted by Nicolae on October 19th, 2008 under Bingo, Housie, Rules
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A typical housie/bingo ticket is shown to the right. It contains fifteen numbers, arranged in nine columns by three rows. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column contains either one, two, or very rarely three, numbers:

The first column contains numbers from 1 to 9,
The second column numbers from [...]

Housie

Posted by Nicolae on October 3rd, 2008 under Bingo, Housie, games
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Housie is a gambling game played in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, where it is called Bingo. Players mark off numbers on a ticket as they are randomly called out, in order to achieve a winning combination.It is not to be confused with the similar American game Bingo, as the tickets [...]

Buzzword bingo

Posted by Nicolae on September 17th, 2008 under Bingo, Bingo Guide, Rules
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Buzzword bingo is a game sometimes played in relaxed team meetings. The rules resemble those of bingo and housie, but instead of a matrix of numbers, each player’s card is a matrix of buzzwords. When a player hears one of his buzzwords spoken in the meeting, he crosses it off his card. [...]

Flimsies

Posted by Nicolae on September 2nd, 2008 under Bingo, Bingo card, games
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Flimsies are a type of bingo cards printed on thin sheets of paper. They are typically printed with three cards on a single sheet, but also come in other formats:

One card per sheet
Two cards per sheet
Four cards per sheet
Six cards per sheet
Nine cards per sheet

Flimsies costs $1-$2 per sheet and a win on [...]

Bingo card

Posted by Nicolae on August 14th, 2008 under Bingo card, Rules, games
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Bingo cards are used to play various bingo games, including U.S. style bingo and U.K. style Housie. Cards are usually made of cardboard or non-reusable paper, but more and more bingo halls are beginning to use computerized cards. Bingo cards are printed in various styles (see below) with randomized bingo numbers. [...]

The card game of bingo

Posted by Nicolae on July 8th, 2008 under Bingo, Bingo Guide, games
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Bingo is a gambling card game named by analogy to the game bingo. Each player is dealt X cards and Y cards are dealt face down in common. The value of each hand is the sum of the values of each card, where the cards have blackjack values. The cards on the [...]

Bingo in US

Posted by Nicolae on June 23rd, 2008 under Bingo, Bingo Guide
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Bingo is a game of chance where randomly-selected numbers are drawn and players match those numbers to those appearing on 5×5 matrices which are printed or electronically represented and are known as “cards.” The first person to have a card where the drawn numbers form a specified pattern is the winner [...]