Firstly, download the PDF files, print bingo cards, make the draws of random numbers and validate the winners. If you intend to play several games in a row, print the cards for each game on different colored paper. At the start of each game, tell the participants the color of the card that will be used during the game.
Use the web application Bingo Maker and play bingo with 25 to 2000 printed or virtual bingo cards per game. Most importantly, ou can insert images around the printed cards during the design. Once you are ready, host a game with the virtual bingo caller and validate the winners automatically.
If you have Microsoft Excel, you can also generate your personalized printable bingo cards with our Free Bingo Card Generator Excel Program. In other words, you can generate as many cards as you want.
A typical housie/bingo ticket .., contains fifteen numbers, arranged in nine columns by three rows. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. Each column contains either one, two, or very rarely three, numbers:
Once we select any random 5 cells in a 9 cell row, we will fill them with bingo numbers. Now, excel has a function to generate random numbers between 1 to 9 (=round(rand()*9,0)), but this is not good for us since each time we call this function we will get a random number between 1 to 9, where as we need a 5 random numbers without repetition between 1 to 9. The function is memoryless and could repeat numbers when called 5 times.
First I created all 2 number combinations and 3 number combinations. Since the numbers on Bingo ticket are always sorted from top to bottom in a column, I just had to list down 45 combinations (10C2) for 2 numbers and 120 combinations (10C3) for 3 numbers.
I really liked your Housie Tickets. However, the tickets printed out are too small and I can't seem to increase the size to the regular printed housie tickets. Can you help me out please? Thank You. Dina
I am having difficulties with sizing. I need eight tickets on A4 Landscape page. I am not too good with Excel but better with Libre Office Calc. I have tried to save to that format but it doesnt work. Can anyone send instructions that are not too technical?
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Hey...
This is cool.. We were planning for a potluck event where I wanted to host this game but was thinking if I should go and buy it from the store just for this one time.. so as usual google'd to see if there was any generator and your's was the first hit... its cool and easy to print and I love it!!! Thanks a lot!!!
@Jo.. "I have removed number 90? from the list in order to reduce some complexity in generating the tickets." Generating 90 along with 80-89 creates a tricky problem of having 11 numbers in the last band while every other column has only 10 possible values.
I want to print more than a 1000 of these tickets, so dont want to click on refresh button 250 times.. so if once I click refresh, is it possible to generate 50 or so worksheet at a time? So that I can click refresh 4 times and get my 1000 tickets?
There is an online generator at , which generates the numbers in blocks of 6 cards, where every number from 1-90 is used. This is how the UK style books are usually printed, so that if you buy 6 tickets you are sure to have every number once and only once. Makes the generation routine a little trickier.
Hi Chandoo,
really liked your bingo sheet. wanted to make a program of it in delphi or vb. i cannot figure how the randomizing of the numbers is to be done properly.
1. Row wise select ion of 5 numbers and place random (0-99) in these five places
2. random selection of 15 numbers and place then as 10,20,30 so on
has a function been done by you?
These tickets can not be used to play standard 90 ball Bingo, the number 90 is missing and the tickets must be produced in blocks of 6 which contain every number from 1 to 90. Also you can not have any columns with three blanks ( no numbers ) on the same ticket.
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Hi Chandoo,
I wish to Customise these tickets for one of my wedding ceremony.
Basically I wanted to replace numbers with Names/Movies etc. So in total I will have 89 names and when the excel generates the numbers, the names should get replaced with it depending on how it is configured.
eg : For Number 1 = DDLJ
2 = DON , etc
Can you please suggest the command to be written in excel which will support the above idea. It would be a great help.
column 1 should contain 1 to 10, column 2 should contain 11 to 20 and so on... obviously you took out number 90 for formula convenience, but i think putting the right numbers into the right column would do the same, yet this way you make an authentic housie ticket... thanks for the post though, it helps me creating my own ticket generator.
I am organizing a fundraiser in our company. I have planned for tambola and the Spread Sheet provided by Chandoo is just awesome for the task. We have 1200+ staff so I guess I need to print this for 24 or so times. I only have two requirements.
1. Can the ticket be numbered so that we can keep track who has taken which ticket.
2. At this large number what is the probability or repeated tickets. You know we don't want to spend all in prices.
I would be looking for options but any quick help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Pawan
Also, I'm looking to create a music version of the same game where I would feed in say 90 songs into the sheet and print song names instead of numbers and play the songs instead of saying the numbers. Any assistance with making this would be appreciated.
It's nice to create tickets easily. I found a random number generator which is cool and easy to use. So thought of adding it to this page so people are able to find tickets and board togather. check at -number-generator
Hi,
thanks for sharing this awesome excel for Bingo / Housie Ticket Generation.
Just noted that many tickets have columns with no value at all.
I understand that each column must have atleast one value.
Can you please see and share an edited excel please.
Many thanks for the awesome stuff you are doing.
Cheers
Mahesh
There is a major flaw in your system. It does not have the number 90. I know you have removed it save the complexity but as it been more then 10 years since you provided us with this, I am sure you have evolved yourself to get the 90 in the tickets.
Also 2nd major flaw is that there should be only 6 tickets in a page of Housie or 12 with 6 in one column side. The major key point here is in the set of 6 tickets all the numbers 1 to 90 should be covered once and not repeated.
Hi There,
I want to get 12 tickets of Housey Game in horizontal A/4 size paper.
Please provide that or please inform if I can modify your Housie Ticket Generator, which provides 3 x 8 = 24 tickets per letter size paper. It is too small to handle.
Regards
hi chandoo,
your bingo ticket generator is awesome....
In this lockdown period finally I have found the solutions of not gettling any column blank and comes number 90 also in your bingo ticket generator....
Hi chandoo,
Thanks a lot for you valuable worksheet to generate housei tickets... i want to print 1to 90. How can i do this ? If you have any update of this worksheet then plz send me in my gmail a/..Again thanks a lot...its verh helpful for mee...
Hi Chandoo
I am trying to copy the tickets to another excel sheet but the generator seems to change the numbers every time I click for an excel action. Please guide me as to how can I copy these tickets to another excel sheet
its a nice program but one last logic is missing. If you see any Tambola ticket book you will find all 90 numbers in any set of six tickets in a page. so please modify the generator program to get sets of 6 ticket at a time with all 90 numbers included in it. All other random number logics are ok
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