Our Local Bingo Adventure! It's Now High-Tech

 My friend Thad is a Bingo master, and invited us to join him one evening at a local Bingo hall. The prizes were quite large and there was about 100 people playing. That's today's blog.

(Photo: Tom, Thad, Rob) 

(Photo: Tom very carefully examines his bingo cards for a number)

BINGO IS HIGH TECH NOW! -   I played bingo last month with my mom-in-law and now here in New England. Since I first played bingo decades ago, there have been a lot of changes. In the "old days" if someone called "Bingo" - a reader would go over and call off all the numbers marked on a card to verify a win.

(Photo: Bingo helper verifies Thad's win on the "ticket" game)

 NOW, each "bingo card" is printed on paper, and they all have a serial number on them. So, the reader only needs to read the serial number and the caller brings their card up on a computer, and matches it to the type of Bingo game to verify a win!  WOW.

TICKETS - There are a large variety of tickets sold that you can play, almost like lottery tickets. You peel back paper strips to reveal a prize or no prize. 

(Photo: Different peel off bingo ticket games)

Other ticket games have numbers and bingo letters... don't ask me how it works. But somehow, if those numbers are called in a certain way, you can also win cash.  Thad won a couple of hundred dollars on them, because he knows how to work them!!

END OF THE NIGHT - Neither Tom nor I won, but it was fun. Thad won a Bingo game and on the peel off tickets!  He knows how to work things there. 

SOMEONE'S TIK TOK VIDEO OF SOME "BINGO PEEL OFF TICKETS" -

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