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they say in church, "bingo!"
It's interesting that one of the least socially stigmatized forms of gambling happens to be a game that
is very close to nothing but a random gamble.
The worst of the goofball systems hucksters try to make the case that bingo can have a winning strategy.
This is nonsense. Numbers are chosen randomly, and numbers on the bingo cards at random. The game is
nothing but an exercise in hoping to get lucky -- and of course socializing. To say the least, there is
no such thing as "a good bingo player".
A tiny amount of skill is possible if a bingo hall has "loss leader" or promotional nights.
The concept is similar to slot machine jackpots or huge lottery prizes. Unlike those however, which are
common, overlays in bingo are so rare that they are barely worth mentioning. Perhaps the most significant
exception would be at a bingo hall where the last game of the night pays an artificially higher payout.
If the bingo hall has been essentially keeping all the earlier prize pools artificially small so that
they could have an artificially higher jackpot at the end of the night, with the aim of keeping players
there all night long, then it could potentially be a good, skillful bet to play that last game. But to
do this as a deliberate strategy I'd think that you would have to have no life whatsoever...
How much gamble is there in Bingo?
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