What is "bingo"

bingo \bingo\ n. a game commonly used for low-stakes gambling, in which numbered balls or slips are drawn at random and players cover the correponding numbers on their cards, called Bingo cards, which have square arrangement of such numbers. Each card has a different arrangement of the numbers, and the first player to cover all numbers in one row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) is the winner, usually announcing that fact by a cry of ``Bingo!''

Note: Variants of the game may require that all peripheral numbers are covered, to form a box, or other figure. The numbers usually have one letter from the group ``B'', ``I'', ``N'', ``G'', and ``O'', plus two digits. The ``cards'' may be disposable sheets of paper on which the numbers are printed.

Syn: lotto, beano, keno.

lotto-like game of chance, 1936; many theories about its origin, none satisfying; the most likely is bingo! as an exclamation of sudden realization or surprise (attested from 1923). Uncertain connection to the slang word for "brandy" (1690s); attested as "liquor" in American English, 1861. Thomas Chandler Haliburton ("Sam Slick") in "The Americans at Home" (1854) recounts a story of a drinking game in which the children's song about the farmer's dog was sung and when it came time to spell out the name, every participant had to take a letter in turn, and anyone who missed or flubbed had to drink.

a. (context US aviation slang chiefly military English) just sufficient to return to base (or, alternatively, to divert to an alternative airfield). (qualifier: also written Bingo or BINGO) interj. 1 (non-gloss definition: Used by players of bingo to claim a win.) 2 (context informal English) (non-gloss definition: Used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall.) 3 (context informal English) (non-gloss definition: Used to declare) "You've just made my point!" or "My point exactly!" n. 1 (context uncountable English) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid. 2 (context countable English) A win in such a game. 3 (context countable Scrabble English) A play where all seven letter tiles are played.

n. a game in which numbered balls are drawn at random and players cover the corresponding numbers on their cards [syn: lotto, beano, keno]

Bingo is a game of chance played with different randomly drawn numbers which players match against numbers that have been pre-printed on 5×5 cards.The cards may be printed on paper or card stock, or electronically represented, and are referred to as cards. Many versions conclude the game when the first person achieves a specified pattern from the drawn numbers. The winner is usually required to call out the word "Bingo!", which alerts the other players and caller of a possible win. All wins are checked to make sure the person has not made a mistake before the win is officially confirmed at which time the prize is secured and a new game is begun. In this version of bingo, players compete against one another for the prize or jackpot.

Alternative methods of play try to increase participation by creating excitement. Since its invention in 1929, modern bingo has evolved into multiple variations, with each jurisdiction's gambling laws regulating how the game is played. There are also nearly unlimited patterns that may be specified for play. Some games require only one number to be matched, while cover-all games award the jackpot for covering an entire card. There are even games that award prizes to players for matching no numbers or achieving no pattern. See "Variations" for more details.

Bingo or bango is a card game named by analogy to the game bingo. The game is played with a bridge deck of 52 cards. The dealer gives each player X cards, which are held in the hand or placed face-down in front of the player. The dealer places Y cards face down in the center of the table. Typically X=Y=5.

Bingo or B-I-N-G-O may refer to:

"Bingo", also known as "Bingo Was His Name-O", "There Was a Farmer Who Had a Dog", and "C'era un contadino che aveva un cagnolino di nome Bingolino" in Italy, is an English language children's song of obscure origin. Additional verses are sung by omitting the first letter sung in the previous verse and clapping instead of actually saying the word. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 589.

Bingo is the titular character and a 1991 American family comedy film, released by TriStar Pictures.

Bingo, a runaway circus dog saves the life of Chuckie ( Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.), a young boy who is somewhat an outcast within his family. The two quickly become best friends - skateboarding, playing pinball, and doing math homework together. But Chuckie's parents discover the stowaway pooch and make no bones about the fact that Bingo will not accompany them on their cross-country move.

Bingo is a slang term used in Scrabble for a play using all of one's tiles. A player who does this receives 50 points in addition to what the word would normally score. Mattel, the game's manufacturer in the United Kingdom, use the term bonus to describe such a word. In French, it is called a scrab.

Bingos are an important part of achieving high scores in Scrabble. While many beginners rarely play even one during a game, experts frequently score three or more. Much advanced strategy revolves around maximizing one's chance of playing of a bingo: blank tiles are hoarded, unwelcome letters are played even for a low score, and flexible letter groups such as AEINST (a six-letter "stem" that anagrams with 24 letters — all but Q and Y — to form nearly 70 bingos) are aimed for until a bingo is formed. This strategy is often at direct odds with that of placing high-value letters on premium squares.

A common misconception is that the bonus received for using all seven tiles is multiplied if a double-word or triple-word score is used. This is not the case: a 9-point word using seven tiles played across a triple-word score is worth 77 points (3 times 9 plus 50 points for the bonus).

Bingo is the first solo album of the German singer Bela B., released in 2006.

The song "Lee Hazlewood & das erste Lied des Tages" is also featured on the Lee Hazlewood album, Cake or Death as "The First Song of the Day".

Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death is a 1973 play by English Marxist playwright Edward Bond. It depicts an ageing William Shakespeare at his Warwickshire home in 1615 and 1616, suffering pangs of conscience in part because he signed a contract which protected his landholdings, on the condition that he would not interfere with an enclosure of common lands that would hurt the local peasant farmers. Although the play is fictional, this contract has a factual basis. Bingo is a political drama heavily influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Epic theatre.

Bingo is a game of probability in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off all their numbers. Bingo became increasingly more popular across the UK with more purpose-built bingo halls opened every year until 2005. Since 2005, Bingo Halls have seen a marked decline in revenues and the closure of many halls. The number of bingo clubs in Britain has dropped from nearly 600 in 2005 to under 400 as of January, 2014. These closures are blamed on high taxes, the smoking ban, and the rise in on-line gambling, amongst other things.

The game is thought to have begun in Italy in the 16th century, specifically, around 1530 Bingo is believed to have migrated to France, Great Britain, and other parts of Europe in the 18th century. Players mark off numbers on a ticket as they are randomly called out, in order to achieve a winning combination. Bingo originates from the Italian lottery, Il Gioco del Lotto d'Italia. From Italy, the game spread to France and was known as Le Lotto, played by the French aristocracy. Tombola was used in nineteenth-century Germany as an educational tool to teach children multiplication tables, spelling, and even history. The origins of the modern version of the game are a little bit unclear, but it definitely gained its initial search of popularity with the first modern version of the game appearing at carnivals and fairs in the 1920s, and is attributed to a Hugh J. Ward. The patent for a modern Bingo card design went to Erwin S. Lowe in 1942.

Bingo played in the UK (90 ball bingo) is not to be confused with bingo played in the US (75 ball bingo), as the tickets and the calling are slightly different.

"Bingo" is a song recorded by American rapper, Gucci Mane, for his second studio album, The State vs. Radric Davis. The song features Soulja Boy Tell 'Em and Waka Flocka Flame, and it was released as the album's fourth single on January 12, 2010 and peaked at number 75 on the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart.

is a 2012 Japanese comedy film directed by Yōhei Fukuda.

Bingo is the fourth studio album by The Whispers. Released in 1974, this would be their final album for Janus Records before they moved over Don Cornelius's Soul Train Records.

Bingo is a 1974 French-Canadian thriller directed by Jean-Claude Lord. The plot relates to Quebec's October Crisis of 1970.

Bingo is an album by the Rova Saxophone Quartet featuring compositions by Lindsay Cooper, Barry Guy, Fred Frith, and Larry Ochs which was recorded in 1996 and released on the Canadian Victo label.

Bingo is a nickname for:

• William Bingo Bingham (1885-?), baseball player in the Negro Leagues
• Elwood Bingo DeMoss (1889–1965), baseball player and manager in the Negro Leagues
• Rudolph Kampman (1914-1987), Canadian National Hockey League player
• Gene "Bingo" O Driscoll, a former Gaelic footballer from the 1980s to the 2000s
• Robert Bingo Smith (born 1946), American retired National Basketball Association player

"Bingo" is the seventh episode of the first season of the AMC television series Better Call Saul, the spinoff series of Breaking Bad. The episode aired on March 16, 2015.

Bingo is a 1998 computer-animated short film directed by Chris Landreth. The short is based on the stage play Disregard This Play by the theater troupe The Neo Futurists. It uses surrealistic imagery and dialogue to tell the story of an ordinary man who is surrounded by characters who insist that he is someone named "Bingo the Clown" even though he is not. Eventually, the man is worn down by their unwavering insistence and comes to believe that he is Bingo the Clown.

At the time of Bingo's creation, Landreth was employed as an animator at AliasWavefront, and the film was used to demonstrate the capabilities of the company's new Maya animation software.

Bingo (full name: Bingo export-import Tuzla d.o.o.) is the largest Bosnian domestic supermarket chain. The company's headquarters is located in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was founded in 1993 by Bosnian businessman Senad Džambić.

In 2015, Bingo had 175 stores open in Bosnia and Herzegovina and more than 5,500 employees.

In 2014, Bingo became the biggest domestic retail company in Bosnia and Herzegovina by acquiring companies Interex BiH and Tuš Trade BiH. Turnover in 2014 was higher than 500 million BAM.

Bingo's chief competitor is Konzum, a Croatian supermarket chain operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina.