Can Strategy help you win bingo?

Bingo is often described as a game or chance or even luck but there are elements of your game that can swing the odds in your favour. Experts have spent years trying to devise theories and strategies to ensure a win and of course this isn’t possible but financial analyst and stock market specialist turned bingo bod Joseph Granville has turned his mathematical mind to the game. After years dedicated to research Granville has been able to develop strategies providing players with a competitive edge.

Simple Bingo Strategy

Granville’s findings aren’t rocket science and can be used by any bingo player, whether you’re an expert or completely new to the game. It’s not about complicated mathematical formulae or getting lost in lists of numbers, you simply follow a step by step programme and any game of bingo will turn in your favour. The theorem applies to a bingo game with any number of balls and Granville studied thousands of games during his research to result in the conclusion that all games do in fact follow a pattern. Players are completely unaware of these patterns as a rule but once you become aware, it makes winning much more likely.

Granville’s system relies heavily on card and number selection and maintains that the numbers you pick are integral to your success. He found a crucial link between winning bingo numbers and the number of numbers available as a whole. Granville even asserts that in many cases you’re more likely win if you don’t buy the maximum number of cards and in fact choose your cards specifically and fewer cards can be a better decision in some instances.

The basics of Granville’s theory are simple and can be discussed using 90 ball bingo as an example. In the first round of any game the probability of a number coming up is the same, all numbers have a 1 in 90 chance in coming up first. This is known as uniform distribution and in random number games such as bingo there are proven patterns which come up time and again according to the law of probability. Granville suggests that there is a high likelihood that the following three things will occur when balls are drawn:

1. There will be an equal balance between odd numbers and even ones.
2. There will be an equal balance between low and high numbers
3. There will be an equal quantity of numbers ending in each digit from 1-9

Granville went as far to say that if these three things did not occur then the game in question was influenced by bias and therefore not truly random. Granville highlighted also that to see these principles in action you should focus on the called numbers and not on your specific bingo cards.

This is one of the most well-known and publicised bingo strategies and it does seem to show that it can help you win. It teaches players to pay more attention to their game and avoid just clicking ‘bet max’ every time they arrive in a bingo room. Buying tickets with several of the same numbers on is never a wise move and it’s also suggested that, where possible, it’s best to play in rooms with fewer other players. Yes, the jackpots may be lower but you’ve also got a higher chance of winning especially if you utilise Granville’s theory.

A further statistician L.H.C. Tippett added to this theory with the suggestion that, specifically in 75 ball bingo, as more numbers are called there is a higher chance that they will be the median number 38. This theory suggests therefore that you should choose bingo cards with as many numbers as close to 38 as possible, where the game in question is considered ‘long’ – meaning it has a complicated or intricate pattern to call on. In ‘short’ games you should be aiming to pick up cards that have as many numbers as close as possible to 1 and 75.

These theories can sway the game slightly further in your favour but overall, bingo is about fun and potentially bagging some cash along the way. Utilising theories can be intriguing and adds a bit of extra interest to your game but whether they work………. well, that is for you to decide!