Play classic 75-ball bingo in your browser. A ball drops every 1.4 seconds — tap your card to daub when a called number matches. Bingo on any line wins. Free.
Tap any cell on your card when its number matches one of the last three called balls. Bingo on any row, column, or diagonal wins. Toggle Manual or Auto daub at the bottom. Lower ball count = better record.
Bingo as we know it grew out of the Italian lottery game Il Gioco del Lotto d'Italia (1530), reached France as Le Lotto in the late 18th century, and was redesigned into the modern 75-ball card game by toy salesman Edwin Lowe in New York in 1929. The B-I-N-G-O column headings, the 5×5 card with a free middle space, and the catchy three-syllable name all date to that redesign.
Each ball belongs to a column: B holds 1–15, I holds 16–30, N holds 31–45 (with a free centre square), G holds 46–60, and O holds 61–75. A bingo card has five distinct numbers per column, drawn at random, so no two cards are ever identical. With 75 balls drawn in random order, the expected number of calls before any single card hits five in a row is around 42.
This version plays you against a steady caller. A new ball drops every 1.4 seconds, and in Manual mode you have to tap your own card to daub the called number — but only the last three balls are still active. If you miss the daub window, that number is gone forever. Auto mode is passive (the system marks for you); play it to watch how lucky your card is.
Five in a row in any direction — any of the 5 rows, any of the 5 columns, or either diagonal. The free centre square counts as already daubed, which helps the middle row, middle column, and both diagonals.
Mathematically four, since the free square gives you a fifth — for example, on the diagonal you only need positions 0, 6, 18, 24 to be daubed and the free centre completes the line. In practice it's extremely rare.
Yes. In manual mode you only have a three-ball tap window. After that the ball is gone and you can't mark it later. That's the skill component.
The 1929 Lowe design split 75 balls into five equal columns of 15 so any one ball maps cleanly to one column. It also keeps every card mathematically symmetric: 75!/(15!)⁵ ≈ 552 million distinct columns each.
Our simulation over 1,000 random games gave a median of 42 balls before the first line, with a minimum of 11 and a maximum of 68. Hitting under 30 is a fast game; over 50 is a slow one.
Not in this version — Bingo 75 uses a single card. Multi-card play and AI opponents are on the roadmap.