Bingo tickets 1 to 90

The set on this page

90-ball bingo tickets, 12 cards, 6 to a sheet, two strips, 2 sheets, and 3 pages counting the caller’s sheet. A ticket is 122.9 by 34.6 mm with squares of 13.65 by 8.53 mm and the numbers set at 10.16 pt, which is about the size they are on a real book of tickets.

A ticket is not a card

The ninety-ball game is a different object from the American seventy-five-ball one and it is worth being precise about it. A ticket is nine columns by three rows, 27 squares, of which only 15 carry numbers. The other twelve are blank, and they are tinted here so it is obvious they are meant to be empty rather than not yet called. Every row holds exactly five numbers. Every column holds one, two or three, drawn from its own range: the first column is 1 to 9, the last is 80 to 90, and the seven between them are 10 to 19, 20 to 29 and so on. A column’s numbers read downwards in order.

What makes it a strip

Six tickets, and between them they carry every number from 1 to 90 exactly once. That is the whole point: with a strip in your hand, every number the caller reads out is on exactly one of your six. It is what makes a book of tickets a game rather than six unrelated chances, and it is why the count here rounds up to a whole strip, half a strip is not a smaller strip, it is a broken one.

Printing six unrelated tickets on a page and calling it a strip would look identical and play completely differently. These are built as strips: the ninety numbers are shared out across the six before any of them is placed.

The caller’s sheet

The last page carries 1 to 90 in a grid, plainly, to cross off as they are called.

The file

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