Do bingo halls cheat? Can you give an example how they cheat?
If you are a bingo player, I am sure you are familiar with TEDS or computerized bingo. You pay $15 dollars for each computer monitor, which supposedly has 72 cards in each. I find it extremely amazing that each person normally has one TED he/she is playing. If you play two machines, that’s 154 cards. If you play 10 TEDS, that’s 720 installed, computerized cards for just one person. Question: with all TEDS being played with 72 cards in each, then how come each bingo game just has one or two winners? Shouldn’t there be muliple winners with all those computerized cards being played? The computer, which operates the TEDS, is normally hidden somewhere in a back room or in a corner, out of sight of the players. Should’nt this arouse someone’s suspicion of cheating? Why does each TED have a house-written number on each monitor sold? And, how does one know that maybe only five cards( for example) are being utilized, for play in each TED, instead of the installed 72 cards? Did you know that bingo halls normally only hire family members as workers? Why is this?
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I call bingo numbers and sell tickets at the hotel I work at. Bingo is a scam basically. I can’t really speak for big bingo halls, I call one game at a time for about 400 people.
This is how it works my end:
300 – 400 people get in line and give me $1 to $20 each for 1 to 20 tickets. If the total sum of money is say $250, the house will keep $80, and then say that $20 is the small prize and the big one is 150.
I seriously mistrust anything were money is grouped together, be it bingo or banks. If you all give you money to some guy so he can fiddle around with it before giving it back to you, they will ALWAYS take something from you, it’s the whole reason they want your cash to start with.
I can’t say anything about fancy computers, I use a leaf blower and pingpong balls to call out balls painted with permanent marker, it’s hardly the lotto, but it still turns over a lot of cash.
Personally, I think there is cheating going on in bingo and all games of chance. Sadly, that is the price we pay for playing and just wanting to have some fun (and possibly win).
I’m even suspect of the game shows on TV, such as The Price is Right and Wheel of Fortune….I have a sneaky suspicion someone in the control room stops the wheel where they want to. Ever notice Pat Sajak never lands on bankrupt when he gives the wheel a final spin anymore.:D
And why do most bingo halls normally only hire family members as workers; I would dare to say most family members won’t rat you out like an outsider would.;-]
“Should there be multiple winners?”
No. You clearly don’t have an understanding of just how many possible Bingo cards there are. With 75 possible numbers, only 25 of which are used on each card, with those 25 being divided into 5 groups of 5, with each of those five being in any possible combination, do you know how many possible combinations that is? 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000,000 cards. That’s 552 million billion billion. That’s more than half of a quadrillion. It is beyond absurd to expect more than one winner in any particular game.
http://www.extrabingo.com/number-combinations-bingo.html
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