Bingo Card Trivia
Hmmm.... just how many different Bingo Cards, each with difference bingo numbers on each, do you think there are?
Well, that is a very interesting question, and a piece of Bingo Trivia that every Online Bingo Player should know... let's do the math!
Bingo Card Math
First, consider the top left corner of a typical Bingo Card, the top square in the B Column. The possible numbers are 1 to 15, so 15 possibilities. The number in the next square down the B Column also has to be 1 to 15, but because you can't duplicate the first number, there are only 14 possibilities. There are 13 possibilities in the third square, 12 in the fourth and so on.
Therefore, the number of possibilities existing just in Column B alone would be 15 x 14 x 13 x 12 x 11, or 360,360.
The number of possibilities in Columns I, G and O also are 360,360 each.
Because Column N has the Free Square in the middle, it has 15 x 14 x 13 x 12 or 32,760 different possibilities.
So, continuing on with the math, the number of different bingo cards possible is 360,360 x 360,360 x 360,360 x 360,360 x 32,760 or 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000.
There are in fact 4,976,640,000 of which have the same twenty four numbers, but the numbers are arranged in a different order on each.
More Bingo Card Math...
That's 920,557,412,343,521,400 bingo cards for each and every one of the approximately 6 billion people living on planet Earth!
If you could print a million bingo cards every second none stop, it would take you 17,505,972,382,599.7 years to print every possible BINGO card.
Given this staggering piece of Bingo Trivia, it is doubtful anyone would ever publish a web site or a book listing every possible Bingo Card Combination, nor would you want to carry them all to the Bingo Parlour.
Hmmm... I wonder how much that many bingo cards would weigh...
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