75 Ball Bingo or 90 Ball Bingo – What Has Happened to Tradition?

by Hollie Sanders

Bingo playing pundits have long debated which bingo is best, 75 ball or 90 ball bingo? Traditionally 75 ball bingo isn’t played in the UK, but it is played everywhere else. I suppose that everywhere else would be a reference to the colonies.

75 ball bingo is different in that it is pattern related whereas 90 ball bingo is constructed of three lines that gives a full house. Some UK bingo sites are beginning to put tradition behind them and are introducing the 75 ball game and horror of horrors there are even sites that provide their players with 75 ball bingo only.

I have heard it said that 75 ball bingo gives a lot more variety and more opportunity to strategise on the game, but my personal preference is to play the traditional game, I am all for tradition, give me fish and chips, walls ice-ream, the Royalty, holidays at Blackpool and Skegness and 90 ball bingo. My Mum played 90 ball bingo, my Nan played 90 ball bingo and I see no reason why I should change a tradition that has been passed down from generation to generation. I will be sticking with my 90 ball game now and into the future, handing the skill down with pride to my children and their children.