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A bingo card. The most common bingo cards are flat pieces of cardboard or disposable paper that contain 25 squares arranged in five vertical columns and five side-to-side rows. Each space in the grid contains a number, except the middle square, which is designated a "free" space. A typical bingo game utilizes the numbers 1 through 75.
Therefore, it has only (15*14*13*12) = 32,760 unique combinations. The product of the five rows (360,360 4 * 32,760) describes the total number of unique playing cards. That number is 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 simplified as 5.52x10 26 or 552 septillion. Printing a complete set of Bingo cards is impossible for all practical purposes.
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British bingo uses different cards, but this page was started by an American editor. Wikipedia includes a diverse variety of characters, and a problematic user's behavior can serve as a random number generator. Below you will find a randomly generated Wikipedia bingo card, and a key explaining the behaviors behind each entry.
The card bears a five-by-five array of numbers (or several such arrays), except for the middle cell, which is a "free space". The numbers range from 1 to 75. The left-hand column of the card has numbers in the range 1 to 15; the second column from the left has numbers in the range 16 to 30, etc. Above the columns are the letters B-I-N-G-O.
As Prize Bingo is mainly played for fun unlike more serious forms of bingo, slang names for numbers are commonly used. On a Prize Bingo board, the numbers are usually colour-coded: 1 - 15: Red; 16 - 30: Yellow; 31 - 45: Blue; 46 - 60: White; 61 - 75: Green; The caller usually reads out the colour then the number, i.e. "Red on its own number 1 ...
Each ball has a number from 1 to 75 and a letter in the word "BINGO" printed on it. If the question is answered correctly, the player earns the letter from that ball and the number on the ball is added in dollars to the bank, which starts at $500 (e.g., if G-50 comes out, the bank increases by $50).
The player's goal is to compete with a cat to navigate and claim squares on a Bingo card, with either numbers or letters pseudorandomly arranged in 1 to 25 or A to Z, respectively. This directly contradicts the number order of real Bingo where the numbers range from 1 to 75 (with each column getting fifteen numbers assigned to it).