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• Coin Toss

  

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  If there was a bingo game where there were no balls but an electronic random number generator, would you play it?

  (For all I know, there are such games, but for the purposes of this poll, bear with me):

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  If you answered yes, do you play a computerized state lottery?

  If you answered no, do you play a cpmp[uterized state lottery, and why would you, other than if it's the "only game in town" so to speak.  

  Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners. 

  

  There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
• Guru101

  

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  Maybe and yes.

  Gonna win.
• Stack47

  

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  "If there was a bingo game where there were no balls but an electronic random number generator, would you play it?"

  There were several Online Bingo money sites and still is for non-US players, but to my knowledge none of them had a webcam showing a live ball drawing.
• Wintariofan

  

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  CoinToss...hey !

   

  Good topic.   Over the past 15 years, our lottery corporation started running computerized bingo at bingo halls across the province. Known as Superstar Bingo in someplaces or the LINK here in Ontario, it's played three times daily, with varying jackpots.  You can win big money, up to $300,000 on LINK PLUS (the game) that grows each time it is played.   If a player bingos on their PLUS number they win the big pot.   It is computer generated from lottery offices in Sault Ste. Marie.  The computer system runs separately from the central computer system that generates the Link cards.  Cards are printed just hours before the game, and players can buy single or three wide strips.  The OLG's website has an extensive section on the LINK -- check it out. 

  Also, the OLG (Ont. Lottery Gaming) has now renovated four bingo halls for electronically run bingo, where players can sit and play on really cool electronic units and also dab if they still prefer the old way.  These state of the art bingo centres is the way Ontario will go in the future.   Any bingo hall that carries the LINK game (about 50 of them) will likely down the road be upgraded.   

  "Together We're Making Good Things Happen,  Ontario's Lotteries...WE ALL WIN"
• Coin Toss

  

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  Hey there Wintariofan, thanks for the info!
  

  Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners. 

  

  There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
• pumpi76

  

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  ONly if it pays lots of money and not the crapy payout i sometimes see bingo pay like 10K....I feel bingo should pay the same amount poker pays...And i feel bingo should be accummulative...
• johnph77

  

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  There are 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 different bingo cards possible.....

  Blessed Saint Leibowitz, keep 'em dreamin' down there..... 

  Next week's convention for Psychics and Prognosticators has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.

   =^.^=
• Badger

  

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  In response to Coin Toss

  Quote: Originally posted by Coin Toss on Oct 10, 2007

  If there was a bingo game where there were no balls but an electronic random number generator, would you play it?

  (For all I know, there are such games, but for the purposes of this poll, bear with me):

  NOW:

  If you answered yes, do you play a computerized state lottery?

  If you answered no, do you play a cpmp[uterized state lottery, and why would you, other than if it's the "only game in town" so to speak.  

  I wouldn't play ANY kind of Bingo.  I've tried it.  It's more boring than watching paint dry !

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