Bingo (U.S.) games that award prizes to players for matching no numbers or achieving no pattern. See "Variations" for more details. The most common Bingo cards are flat pieces of cardboard or disposable paper which contain 25 squares arranged in five vertical columns and five side to side rows. Each space in the grid contains a number. A typical Bingo game utilizes the numbers 1 through 75. The five columns of the card are labeled 'B', 'I', 'N', 'G', and 'O' from left to right. The center space is usually marked "Free" or "Free Space", and is considered automatically filled. The range
Bingo (U.S.) Way Bingo – A hard-way bingo is a bingo pattern in a straight line without the use of the free space. Reach - In Japan, a player will yell "Reach" when he/she is one space away from a bingo. A lottery game called "Il Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia" was being played in Italy by about 1530. In eighteenth-century France playing cards, tokens and the calling out of numbers were added. In the nineteenth century a game like this was widely played in Germany to teach children spelling, animal names and multiplication tables. The French game "Le Lotto" appeared in 1778,