ABOUT MY THREE BINGO GAMES

ABOUT MY THREE BINGO PROGRAMS

I go to Atlantic City New Jersey USA, a resort town
with gambling casinos. They have a free bingo game to
attract people. I played and got interested in Bingo.
Later, the bus I go to AC with, has a BINGO game and you can buy
as many cards as you like.

I wrote a program to keep track of ten cards and successfully
played with it. I call this BUS BINGO.

I wanted more than ten cards. I bought a set of 100 cards
and wrote a similar program. You sell cards or keep track on paper.
It picks the balls, marks the cards and announces a winner.
I call this CLUB BINGO.

Yet a bigger bingo game is CHURCH BINGO. It makes up 1000 cards.
Everything occurs in the computer.
This program gives a part of the winnings to the house (church).
While I never used it; I assume you can sell cards, giving a
raffle ticket as proof.
You then enter the ticket number and the number of cards the person
bought.
It runs several games, figuring the prizes and keeping track.
It announces the winner and keeps a running total of the prizes.

THE VALUE OF BINGO:

Bingo is a number game and subject to speculation about
probability. (I ran 500 million games looking for the best cards.
I made the conclusion that all cards win the same.) There
are at least two theories claiming otherwise.
By computerizing games, they can be done quicker, giving
more data on probability.

GAMBLING IS BAD:

Playing games with play money or pennies teaches the folly
of gambling. It gives an opportunity for parents to teach
about the evils of gambling. Bingo should return exactly
what you bet; if you play enough games.

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