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Bingo Tickets ( 1 - 90 Bingo)

If you're unfamiliar with bingo, you might want first to read Bingo: The Basics - click here

Different formats for 1 - 90 bingo tickets:

• Bingo Singles - also known as "flyers" - are tickets on individual sheets.  All the sheets in a pack have the same coloured border, and are from a series of 12,000 tickets without any duplicate combinations of numbers.
• Bingo Booklets - are bingo singles gummed together to form a booklet, with all the tickets you need for a set number of games - for example, a five game booklet.  Each of the tickets within the booklet has a different coloured border, and is from a separate series.

When you buy bingo tickets from bingo suppliers - bingo singles or bingo booklets - you may also be offered a choice of "12 to view" or "6 to view".  All bingo tickets are sold in perforated strips:

"12 to view" means there are 12 singles tickets or bingo booklets on the strip

"6 to view" means there are 6 singles tickets or bingo booklets on the strip

Choosing the Right Format

Choosing the right format really comes down to practicalities:

• using tickets with different coloured borders for each game - each game played from a different series - is an easy way of making sure you won't get two people calling bingo at the same time
• it's usually far simpler - much less fuss and delay between games - to hand out all the bingo tickets for all the games before you start playing
• booklets are easier for players to manage than a sheaf of singles

As a general guideline:

• Bingo Booklets are best if you are going to play several games of bingo
• Bingo Singles are good for a final special prize game - or to have in readiness in case there's time left over, and players want an extra game
• if you're likely to play more than one game with bingo singles - say you want two special prize games - use different packs of singles each with different coloured borders

Choosing between "12 to view" and "6 to view" is also about practicalities - as there's barely any difference in price:

• with "12 to view", you'll have to tear the strip in half to give out strips of 6 tickets or booklets
• with "6 to view", the strip of 6 tickets or booklets is ready-made

Choosing the Right Bingo Booklet

There are bingo booklets with different numbers of games - for example, 4 game, 5 game, 6 game, and 10 game booklets.

So choosing the right booklet is simply a quiestion of deciding how many games you want to play.  As a very general guideline:

• a 5 or 6 game booklet is a good choice if you don't want to play bingo for too long - say, if there are other entertainments at your fundraising event
• a 10 game booklet is a good choice if you want to play bingo for most of the afternoon or evening.  You could instead choose separate booklets to use before and after a refreshment break - for example, a 6 game booklet and a 4 game booklet.  But a 10 game booklet does work out cheaper

Deciding What Quantity to Buy

There's a minimum quantity of bingo booklets - and of bingo singles - that you can buy:

• a pack of bingo booklets with 750 booklets in the pack
• a pad of bingo singles with 750 tickets on the pad (though some bingo suppliers only sell bingo singles in packs of 6000 tickets)

The reason for these minumum quantities is to keep intact each series of bingo tickets with no duplicate combinations of numbers.

When you are working out how many booklets or singles you need, remember that it's usual for players to play with a strip of 6 tickets - so it's the number of strips of 6 that's significant.  This is shown in the table below;

 

Bingo Booklets
Number of packs (6 to view)	Number of Booklets	Number of strips of 6
1	750	125
2	1500	250
3	2250	375
4	3000	500

Bingo Singles
Number of pads (6 to view)	Number of Singles	Number of strips of 6
1	750	125
2	1500	250
3	2250	375
4	3000	500
5	3750	625

As a general guide, you might reckon that 1 pack of 750 bingo booklets would be about right for:

• a fundraising event which you can expect no more than 100 people to attend
• weekly social events for 6 weeks with 20 people playing

If you're going to play bingo regularly, don't forget that you get better prices the more booklets or singles that you buy.  So it's worth stocking up.

Storing Bingo Tickets

It's important that you store bingo tickets - bingo booklets and bingo singles - so that you don't mix tickets from different series, with the risk of duplicate combinations of numbers:

• keep a new order of tickets quite separate from any you have left over
• don't give out a mixture of left-over tickets and tickets from a new order

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