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Choose the kind of bingo
There are three kinds. Numbers is classic bingo, one to seventy-five, and needs no preparation. Words uses your own list: movie quotes, office in-jokes, whatever fits the night. Music makes every square a song title: you play the song, and guests find it. Music bingo has its own guide.
Your own list
Type or paste your list, one item per line, and add it. You need at least nine items. With twenty-four or more, every guest gets a full five by five card, and each card is shuffled differently. Or let the AI write the list: give it a topic, say how many squares, and choose words or song titles.
Songs, pictures and videos
Every item can also play a song, or show a picture or a video, when it is called. That makes song bingo and picture bingo easy to set up.
Set the rules
Choose what wins: any line, four corners, the border, a cross, an X or the whole card. Choose how many cards each player starts with, and how many points the first Bingo is worth. You can pay only the first winner, or every player who calls a valid Bingo.
Play
On the Live tab, start the show and move to the bingo step. The TV shows the whole board, the last call with the two before it, and a small picture of the pattern that wins. Every guest gets their own card on their phone, each one different, and guests tap a square to mark it. The card fills the phone, and the squares the pattern needs are outlined.
Calling items
Each time you call the next item it appears on the TV, with its song, picture or video if you added one. The two calls before it stay beside it, and the phones show an Earlier strip of recent calls, so nobody misses one. You can call them yourself, or ask your cohosts to call them. Show what has been called on the TV and the phones is a switch in the panel: switch it off to make guests listen or look, and show the list when you want to settle a win.
Your controls
On the Live tab you can call the next item, undo the last call, or choose exactly what to call. You can also change the winning pattern, the number of cards and the scoring while the game is on. The panel has three tabs: Game Control, Call History for every call in order, and Cards, a list of your players where you pick one to see their cards and what they have marked, and give them another card or take one away.
A win
When a guest completes the winning pattern, they tap Bingo on their phone. The game checks it against what was really called, so only real wins count and nobody has to argue. The TV announces the winner and the points are added.
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