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Calculating odds in bingo is theoretically very simple – take the cards you have in play divided by the total number of cards in play. If there’s a hundred cards in the game, and you have four, your chances of winning are 4 in 100. The trick is to guess roughly how many cards there are. Simply count how many people are in the game and multiply that by the average number of cards each person holds.

Alas that this method doesn’t work with progressive jackpot games. The format of the game means that there is no guarantee that any one game will actually have a winner.  The odds can be so colossal in a lot of progressive games that it may be weeks or even months before somebody wins.

What Numbers Come Up Most Regularly?

The holy grail for serious bingo players is: “Is there some mathmetical way to win?

Alas for the mystics, the answer is clear. No number has a greater chance of appearing in a game than any one of the many others, assuming no fraud.

Like the flip of a coin, the odds might be even overall, but there is no way to predict a pattern. If 32 occurs in four games back to back, that does not mean that 32 will come up again in the next game.

The only way to tip the odds in your favour  in a game of bingo is to hold multiple cards at once. More numbers = more chances to win. Whilst no card has any more chance of winning in a game than any other, you would have a greater percentage of the cards being played. That means more chances to win. If you one card in play with 10 others then you fewer chances to win than someone with multiple cards in the same game.

In the final analysis, although you can slightly tweak probability in your favour in a game of bingo, you’d be as well to  just cross your fingers!

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