The Troubled side Of Bingo

I was asking around to see if any of my player pals had had any bad experiences in the area of Bingo. It appears that there were only a few they could recall, but most appeared to relate to live or land-based Bingo, instead of online Bingo.

There was the time I witnessed where the blower failed, mid-game, and tries to fix it led to the entire contraption being knocked off the trestle table it was on, scattering the numbered Ping-Pong balls all over the Bingo hall floor. A couple were trodden on in the ensuing melee and there were not any substitute balls. Game deserted, till someone produced a home Bingo kit complete along with ninety number counters and a draw-string bag to keep them in.

A vote of the players with cards was taken and that was agreed just about overwhelmingly to keep on the game, and the remainder of the evening, using the make-shift arrangements. The caller continued to call, but a tiny child was the one pulling the numbers from the bag ( unsure that was ethically sound, but this was Thatcher’s Britain at the time!!

The main complaints in relation to live Bingo seemed to be mostly about not having the ability to hear the Caller or see the screen, and loud diversions, generally in the youngsters running amok office.