90 Ball Vs 75 Ball - The Big Bingo Showdown!
Until recently the majority of online bingo halls in the UK were offering only 75 ball bingo to their players. This is the US version of bingo, with each game involving a particular game pattern. To win you must cover all the numbers on your card in the pattern displayed at the top of the game. With this version, bingo operators could bring in particular game patterns for particular hours of the day, or at particular times of the year - a santas hat at Christmas, a shamrock on St Patricks Day.
75 ball bingo is extremely popular, particularly the regular coverall games - where the pattern is the entire card, and players to bingo within a limited number of calls can win spectacular jackpots of up to £1 Million.
Recently however, 90 ball bingo has been making a spectacular online return in the UK. Remember all those bingo calls like Legs Eleven, Two Fat Ladies and Lucky 7. The ones that make you think of the blue rinse brigade down the Mecca Bingo on a Friday night? Well, now they're back. Aquagaming, the company behind the Bingo Ballroom and Getminted Bingo networks has introduced a new Nifty Ninety Bingo room, with its very own progressive jackpot. And it's been proving to be more popular than the old 75 ball rooms.
So apart from the calls, what is 90 ball bingo all about? Well, in 90 ball bingo, the cards are traditionally called tickets, consisting of 3 rows and 9 columns. Each row contains 5 numbers and 4 blank spots. There are 3 ways to win - the player to fill a line first, the player to fill 2 lines first, and the player to cover all 3 rows first. It's as simple as that.
90 Ball Bingo is on the rise again, with both Aquagaming and Parlay, the UK's 2 biggest bingo suppliers offering it to their players. Now try it for yourself at Getminted Bingo.