Bespoke Bingo Tickets for the Big Festoon Bingo Bedlam
I'm just at an event at Bolton Wanderers with our Monet Bingo machine, which is perfect for venues like this. Tonight, the I Am The Queen Bee (IATQB) conference will play a few zany bingo games, making for the perfect end to the first day of The Big Festoon. Uniquely, the organisers wanted multiple winners per game, so as well as supplying the bingo machine, we designed and printed the bingo tickets for the event. We are the only bingo hire company that can design and print bingo tickets. We can also develop raffle and lottery draws, as well as design and supply the tickets. We frequently use commercial bingo tickets, but we can also provide a [...]
Combination Draw Example
For this example, we are going to use a four from eight draw, that is, drawing four balls from 1 to 8; this gives you 70 combinations. If you issue tickets with all seventy combinations and draw four numbers, you are guaranteed just one winner. For this demonstration, we have created 14 tickets with five lines each, covering all 70 combinations. Every ticket has 'five' chances to win. We have also mixed up the combinations so every ticket has the numbers 1 to 8 at least once. Combination Draw Example: a four from eight draw gives you 70 combinations; here are 14 tickets, each with five lines, covering all 70 combinations. All the tickets have [...]
Are Business Cards Dead?
Do you still use traditional business cards? Post COVID, are they still relevant? Some people have now moved to NFC cards to give their details out automatically, and a few use QR codes in the same way. Twenty years ago, at a conference in the US, I had a conversation with two fellow attendees who told me about a salesman who had cards that cost $40 each. He was a freelancer who specialised in maximising sales at conferences and exhibitions and used his card to land lucrative exhibition stand jobs. I never met him, nor did I see his card. But the story always intrigued me. Over the years, I have revisited the idea of having something [...]
Lottery Draw Types
There are several different draw types you can use for a lottery: Sequentially numbered draws and combination draws. Sequentially numbered draws. The most common, because it is the easiest to understand and execute, is a sequential number draw: You sell 200 numbered tickets. Then you draw the winner. Sequentially numbered draws are the most common because they are the easiest to understand and execute. If you use a ball machine to draw the winner, you very quickly run into a few issues: First, you need to verify the draw, so someone has to check that you ran it correctly, that all 200 balls were indeed in the machine, and that there is no disparity between the [...]
Mrs V’s 80th Birthday
Question: What do you do to celebrate your mum's 80th Birthday? Answer: A surprise Bingo Birthday party! But then the mum in question did run a seaside bingo arcade for many years. But it can't be any old bingo event; it has to match the style and feel of the old bingo arcade. Traditionally, seaside bingo uses either 75-number or 80-number bingo games, not the more usual 90 games you get in bingo halls. Could Bingo Rental help? Absolutely. Here is what we did: Aladdin's Prize Bingo in Brighton used 75-number bingo, so first we designed bingo tickets to match the old style they had in the arcade. We created a four-game sheet with two games on [...]
Bobs Full House
Bob's Full House was a bingo-based British TV game show hosted by Bob Monkhouse, which aired on BBC One from September 1984 to January 1990. Rather than 90-number bingo, the show was based on a 60-number game, but still had 15 numbers for a full house on a three-by-six bingo card (90-number bingo used a three-by-nine card). Unlike 90-number cards, which have the numbers one to nine in the first column, BFH had one to ten in the first column. Bob's Full House 1st Column - 1 to 10 2nd Column - 11 to 20 3rd Column - 21 to 30 4th Column - 31 to 40 5th Column - 41 to 50 6th Column - [...]