Bingo in Scandinavia
When one speaks of bingo, you would instantly conjure images of British and American people crowding social halls or logging in to their own online bingo accounts. Indeed, the game is so popular here that they have considered adopting their own bingo game. If you’re in the UK, you would see a lot of the players going for 90 ball bingo game. In here, 6 strips are given, with random numbers printed in a number of rows. You can use all six strips in 3 different stages of the bingo game.
If you’re in the United States, the 75-ball bingo game is the most popular. For every game, you will have to purchase a bingo card which contains random numbers that belong from 1 to 75. There are five rows and columns, with columns named after every letter of the word “Bingo.”
However, bingo today is no longer constricted to these two countries alone. It is also fast gaining ground in Scandinavian countries. In fact, there’s such as thing called a Swedish bingo.
What is a Swedish bingo?
The Swedish bingo is like a combination of 90 and 75 ball game. It is largely the latter; however, there are also three rounds of bingo games that you can participate in. The prize will be given to the first player who can come up with the winning pattern in each round.
In the first round, all you have to do is to follow the one-row pattern. In the second round, you must be able to mark those numbers that are found in three rows. Last round is played as a blackout, which means you have to mark all the numbers that are found in your card.
There’s also something in a Swedish bingo card that separates it from the other conventional bingo cards. If the middle spot of American bingo cards has the word “free,” in Swedish bingo, it contains a number that is similar to another number in the same card.
Other Bingo Games Played in Scandinavia
Scandinavians also liked to play 80 ball bingo. The only difference is that there are now 80 numbers that you have to watch out for. They also have the Price Is Right. Aside from the regular bingo game sessions, you can also play in their bonus rounds, where there are a lot of great prizes that are given away. In fact, if the organizer is generous enough, you can even win a car.
These games can be played online. There are already a number of bingo websites that are opening their doors to Scandinavian countries, such as Sweden. More would be doing so in the future.
By 2005, the online bingo industry in Sweden earned as much as 3 billion SEK. Moreover, there are more female than male bingo players, and a lot of them are between 41 and 50 years old. In the next succeeding years, the online gaming industry hopes to increase their revenue to 200 percent. All these figures simply mean one thing: bingo isn’t going away in Scandinavia. It will continue to grow.
