UK Bingo Cards

UK bingo cards are available in a set of six tear-apart 'tickets' called strips bound together in a booklet. Each bingo ticket contains a rectangular grid of 27 blocks – 9 columns and 3 rows. Typically a ticket has 15 numbers with each row comprising for 5 random numbers and four blank spaces. These tickets or cards are used in the UK style 90 ball bingo games. Players usually buy UK bingo cards in a strip of 6 tickets. All the numbers from 1 through 90 are randomly distributed throughout the 6 tickets. A single strip of six cards is also known as a 'flyer'.

On each UK bingo card, numbers are arranged in columns. Below is the structure of a typical UK bingo card -

Column 1 contains numbers 1 - 9
Column 2 contains numbers 10 - 19
Column 3 contains numbers 20 - 29
Column 4 contains numbers 30 - 39
Column 5 contains numbers 40 - 49
Column 6 contains numbers 50 - 59
Column 7 contains numbers 60 - 69
Column 8 contains numbers 70 - 79
Column 9 contains numbers 80 - 90


How to play bingo using UK bingo cards?

UK bingo cards are used in the very popular 90 ball bingo games. In this version of bingo, 90 bingo numbers are used. The aim of the game is to complete a line of five numbers. There is three ways to win this game. The first winner is the first player to complete a single line, the second winner is the first player to complete two lines, the third winner is the first person to complete a full house. In the traditional games, players use a marker to daub each number on their UK bingo card as they are called.

UK bingo cards are also called housie cards and are a lot different from the US bingo cards, which contains a grid of 5 columns and 5 rows containing 24 numbers and one free square.