This is the latest edition of BUS BINGO. It is a program to cover ten bingo cards when numbers are called. It is a cover the full card game. You can save your own cards and play with them too. There is a way to see demo games quickly to learn how to play. This game reveals many aspects of probability and provokes discussion and experimentation with numbers.

HERE IS A WAY TO PLAY BINGO WITH TEN CARDS. ALSO A WAY TO RUN DEMO GAMES TO STUDY PROBABILITY. INCLUDED IS A CALCULATION OF THE ODDS OF A PERFECT GAME.

ABOUT BINGO I understand that BINGO is an American invented game, so let me explain my BINGO programs and why you might like them. I improve my programs with ascending number names: BINGO 67, BINGO 68… I often think I’m done, so I publish them; I’m up to BUS BINGO 91! BINGO is a little lotto type game, that can be quickly run. Children and old people play, as it takes only attending to your card, However; it’s a mania in parts of the USA and other places. It is an entre to numbers and probability and grits to a computer, which is at heart a number cruncher. What you do is get a card with 24 random numbers from 1 to 75. A caller picks number from 1-75 and you cover the numbers on your card. In my game, you win when you cover all your numbers. A perfect game; in which you cover all your card in 24 turns has an astronomically low chance of happening. With forty cards in a game, it lasts for about 71 turns. People bet on this! It’s so simple that children play, with underlying probability that can interest mathematicians. (I have played 530 million simulated games to show each card has a equal chance of winning an any 4 numbers in a row game. BINGO and computers are simpatico.) There are an astronomical number of different cards. BUS BINGO 91 is a quick way to play to view some of this simplicity/complexity, without the complications. It just runs games and shows you the results. In this way, you can disabuse yourself about notions of luck and special numbers; which some people charmingly harbor. While I wrote this program for my own use, to play on a bus with ten cards; you can get in on the action. If you win in under 70 turns, count it as a win; that is, you would probably win on the bus with 30 other cards playing. The fascination with BINGO puzzle me. My first response to it, after childhood, encounters; was zombie-like boredom, but it grows on you; so give it a look!