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Funkijunki Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

who have ever played "bingo" game before?

here is the last sentence from a passage which centres around"bingo"game( i googled it,but i don't know how to play it)

LLOYD: And that gargantuan game was the last square on our card. So, it's time for us to head out here. Have a great day, everyone. I'm Monica Lloyd.

i guess "the last square on our card" is a idiom used in that game,so,who can explain this to me?
  

Top answer

A bingo player has a card with squares on it in which there are numbers printed. A caller calls out numbers as they are thrown up by a random selection system. The players cross off those numbers that match on their cards.

— Feebs11

  • A bingo player has a card with squares on it in which there are numbers printed.
  • A caller calls out numbers as they are thrown up by a random selection system.
  • The players cross off those numbers that match on their cards.
  • The person who completely fills their card first is winner.
  • So the last square on the card is the all important winning square.
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A bingo player has a card with squares on it in which there are numbers printed. A caller calls out numbers as they are thrown up by a random selection system. The players cross off those numbers that match on their cards. The person who completely fills their card first is winner.

So the last square on the card is the all important winning square.
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Feebs11A bingo player has a card with squares on it in which there are numbers printed. A caller calls out numbers as they are thrown up by a random selection system. The players cross off those numbers that match on their cards. The person who completely fills their card first is winner.

So the last square on the card is the all important winning square.
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And one more thing about bingo: the card has five columns of numbers, and the columns are headed with the letters of the word B-I-N-G-O. Each column contains five squares; there are twenty-four squares to be filled, since the center one is "free." Numbers are not completely random; I believe 1-19 are printed randomly in the B column, 20-39 under the I, and so on. This makes it possible for experi
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AnonymousAnd one more thing about bingo: the card has five columns of numbers, and the columns are headed with the letters of the word B-I-N-G-O. Each column contains five squares; there are twenty-four squares to be filled, since the center one is "free." Numbers are not completely random; I believe 1-19 are printed randomly in the B column, 20-39 under the I, and so on.
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And when you win, you shout "Bingo!"
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Oh yes, of course, the most important part. Emotion: smile

What I learned that I didn't know before (from the website I linked to) is tha
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Del (may I call you Del?) -- I don't think I've mentioned this before, but I've been enjoying your posts. (Especially the reminder of the Thurber "Container for the Thing Contained" piece!) A belated welcome to the Forum!
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Please do call me Del, and thank you. I'm enjoying being here. Barbara, the Grammar Geek, sent me here from another forum. Emotion: smile
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