Bingo Combinations - Bingo Numbers

Bingo Combinations and Numbers

Bingo games are the most popular online games in the world with even the Casino game Keno being based on Bingo. Bingo players are not usually hardened gamblers but are usually those who enjoy a flutter on other games like slots, scratch cards or pull tabs etc.

Originally the game of Bingo was called ‘Beano’ and was formed out of an Italian lottery in 1500’s. Bingo has taken on many new forms and has been used for a variety of purposes such as educational tool and fundraising for churches but one thing has stood- everyone loves a game of Bingo.

So how many combinations are there for Bingo cards—well if you were to print out every combination it would take over a lifetime to do.

In the BINGO game there are seventy-five numbers broken up into five groups of fifteen numbers each; B-1 thru 15, I-16 thru 30, N-31 thru 45, G-46 thru 60, and O-61 thru 75. The BINGO game card has five columns corresponding to the letters B-I-N-G-O.

In any one card the Bingo game players card has 24 numbers; 5 in each BIGO columns and 4 (1 being a free space) in the N column. The total Bingo card combinations are a staggering 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000,000. (That’s 552-million-billion-billion or 0.5 quadrillion) There would be 111,007,923,832,371,000 sets of Bingo game cards with 4,976,640,000 cards (almost 55 billion) in each set.

If we presume that there are six billion people in the world today, it means that there are 92,074,412,343,521,400 Bingo game cards for each and every person in the world.
If you could print a million Bingo game cards per second, it would take 17,505,972,382,599.7 years to print every possible BINGO same card.
If you put four BINGO game cards on a standard 8-1/2 X 11 sheet of paper, and if you spread all of the BINGO game cards out over the surface of the earth, they would cover the earth to a depth of over 800 miles.
If there were one million Bingo game cards per inch of height, and all of the possible cards were put in one stack, the stack would extend for 1485 light-years. (A light year is 6-trillion miles.) Alpha Centuri, our nearest star beyond the Sun, is only 4 light-years away.
There are 111,007,923,832,371,000 possible unique BINGO combinations where no two cards would have the same twenty four numbers. (That’s 111-million-million.)