The good The game is very easy to pick up. Almost anyone who understands numbers, can play this game. It is therefore great for children's parties. Also, everyone has an equal chance to win. The game can be exiting. I hear my mother often talking how she is only one number away from the price. You can make the case that this game is gambling light: the thrill of winning prices by chance but since a game takes a whole evening, it is too slow for an addiction. Also, you typically only pay a modest entree fee. The bad When I look at this game, as an avid gamer: I don't see much. There is no tactic, as a player you have zero influence over the outcome. the game is 100% luck. It would call it a ritual to postpone the outcome. For gameplay outcome, it would make no difference to put the names of all contenders in a back and draw one. The whole game would be settled in minutes instead of a lengthy seating. thoughts When my mother talks about this game, she hardly talks about the game. She does talk about people at the table and how pleasant it is to see them. Guess that is the proper use of this game, the ultimate light game that is so light it can serve as a filler at social gatherings. Almost everyone can join. A game for people that dislike putting effort into gaming? Also, I think this game is gambling light. You get the rush of perhaps winning a prize. But there is hardly a risk of addiction and the modest entry prise is hardly a drain on someone's income. Rating How do I rate this game? Personally: I really dislike it. It's only luck, no tactics of strategy. As an almost game-snob, I lift my nose up and would almost deem this game below any contempt. But when I go beyond that, I must think back to the time I lived in the centre of a small Dutch town. Every Wednesday, lots of busses came and unloaded people to play 'Kien', a variant of this game. The whole TownCenter was filled with players. No game in the top-10 does this. Even the evergreens like Catan, Monopoly or Scrabble do not come close. Only sports can match this, with spectators. But when I look at active players, even sports cannot match the success of this game. Even the title of the game became a mainstream exclamation and expression. Despite my geek prejudice: one cannot argue with this much success. Bingo is the best game ever.
[+] Dice rolls
It is similar to the betting game above, but played with two 52-card packs shuffled together and suitable for a larger number of players. A player who discards all five cards calls 'bingo!' And wins the whole pot. If no one has declared 'bingo!' Members of Duke Ellington's band recall playing Tonk frequently. Musician Billy Strayhorn supposedly composed a song about the game. While Tonk may not be as well known as other card games, it is still widely played today. The game is considered a nickel card game and plays much like the way knock rummy card games are played.
Bingo (also bango[1]) is a card game named by analogy to the game bingo. The game is played with a bridge deck of 52 cards.[2][3]
Gameplay[edit]
The dealer gives each player a number of cards (typically five), which are held in the hand or placed face-down in front of the player. The dealer places the same number of cards face-down in the center of the table.
A round of play consists of betting, followed by the dealer turning over one of the center cards, so that it is facing-up. Any card in a player's hand that has the same rank value as the rank of the center card just turned are now revealed and discarded. The discards can be placed face-up in front of the player.
Betting rounds continue until a player has all of the cards knocked from their hand. In analogy to regular bingo, the first player to realize their hand is empty says 'bingo' and claims the pot. If no player is knocked out after all the center cards have been revealed, then all of the players reveal their remaining cards. A winner can be determined by adding the rank values of cards remaining in the hand.
In determining value, jacks are valued at 11, queens, at 12, kings at 13, and aces at either 1 or 15, depending on whether the players have agreed that high rank wins or low rank wins. The game can also be played with cards having blackjack value, with all face cards given value of 10 and the ace having value of either 1 or 11.
Variations[edit]
In 'Sixty Six Bingo' each player gets six cards and there are six common cards. Instead of betting each round, there are betting rounds before any common cards are turned over, after the first two cards are turned over, after the third and fourth cards are turned over and after the fifth and sixth cards are turned over. If no player claims the pot by being knocked out, then the pot is split between high hand and low hand. If a player's remaining cards include an ace, then it is possible to be both high hand and low hand.
Another variation gives each player five cards face down, and ten common cards are to be placed in the center of the table, face down. The dealer will turn over the first common card and call it out. If a player has the same rank in their hand, they will then discard. The dealer will continue to call out each card until all of the common cards have been turned face up. The player that is able to discard all five cards, calls bingo and wins the hand.
References[edit]
^Group, Diagram (20 March 2019). 'Little Giant Encyclopedia: Card Games'. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. – via Google Books.
^Morehead, Albert H., ed. (1996). The Official Rules of Card Games. Random House. p. 93. ISBN0449911586.
^Gibson, Walter B. (2013). Hoyle's Modern Encyclopedia of Card Games: Rules of All the Basic Games and Popular Variations. Crown Publishing Group. p. 22. ISBN0307486095.
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