75 ball or 90 ball – which one will you play?

Typically all the online Bingo sites offer both 75 ball and 90 ball Bingo games. 90 ball Bingo is more popular is UK and is often referred at UK style Bingo. 75 ball Bingo is referred at US style Bingo because of its popularity in US.

The key difference between the two is – 75 ball Bingo has a bingo ticket with five by five square layout with a combination of numbers from 1 to 75 printed over it. Each of these numbers also have a corresponding letter from the word ‘Bingo’.

On the other hand when you are playing 90 ball Bingo your ticket has three rows and nine columns. Each row has 5 numbers i.e. a total of 15 numbers on the ticket. Each column has numbers 1 through 9, 10 through 19, 20 through 29, and so on through the last column which is 80 through 90.

In a 75 ball Bingo you can win not only by filling in entire horizontal, vertical or diagonal lines, but by also completing a variety of theme patterns. For instance a variation game may require to mark out all ‘A’s to claim Bingo. It is always a good idea to carefully understand variation before the start of 75 ball Bingo game because of the unlimited variety out there.

Where as on 90 ball Bingo there are 3 stages of declaring winners. In stage one the person who marks out all five numbers in a row wins. Stage two requires all the numbers in two rows to be marked out in order to win. And stage 3 is the full house i.e when you have marked all 15 numbers on your ticket.