BINGO CARD STATISTICS
Calculating the total number of possible combinations yeilds the result that there exists
552,446,4557,061,129,000,000,000,000 possible BINGO cards, 4,976,640,000 of which would have the same twenty four numbers, but in a different arrangement.
If we presume that there are six billion people in the world today, that means that there are 92,0557,412,343,521,400 cards for each and every person in the world.
If you could print a million cards per second, it would take
17,505,972,382,599.7 years
to print every possible BINGO card
Bingo in Australia
Bingo became popular in Australia early in the 20th Century. It was known as HOUSIE. HOUSIE and was held in large marquees before they moved into halls.
Bingo Lore
Edwin Lowe the originator of the game "Lowe's Bingo" sought the services of a math professor at Columbia University, Carl Leffler, to expand the amount of number combinations. In 1930, Professor Leffler devised 6,000 bingo cards with non-repeating number groups.
It was said that he completed the task successfully, and then went insane. In the 1800's a Lotto game similar to Bingo was used as an educational tool Germany designed to teach children multiplication tables.
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