Tambola, also known as Tombola, Indian Bingo or Housie is a popular game that is believed to be originated in Italy in early 1500s.
Each player must buy at least one ticket to enter a game. Tambola is played with Numbers (1-90) being called out one at a time and players striking out those Numbers on their Tickets.
Each ticket contains 27 spaces, arranged in nine columns by three rows. Each row contains five numbers and four blank spaces. The first column contains numbers from 1 to 9, the second column numbers from 10 to 20, the third, 20 to 30 and so on up until the last column, which contains numbers from 81 to 90.
There are various variations already set in the game and players can claim the variations when their ticket satisfies the variations. In order to win in Tambola or Bingo, you need to match winning variations the earliest. Some of the popular winning variations in a Tambola game are:
- Early Five : The ticket with first five number dabbed
- Top Line: The ticket with all the numbers of the top row dabbed fastest.
- Middle Line: The ticket with all the numbers of the middle row dabbed fastest.
- Bottom Line: The ticket with the numbers of the bottom row dabbed fasted.
- Four Corners: The ticket with all four corners marked first i.e. 1st and last numbers of top and bottom rows.
- Full House: The ticket with all the 15 numbers marked first.
- Create new group
- Add participants in the group
- Create tickets for participants
- Get random numbers from board (1-90) and mark the numbers in tickets if present
- Start a new game by refreshing the board and deleting the tickets in a group
- Automatic save the game and start from where you left next time
- Share the tickets by exporting the ticket as image
- Add variations for the game and manage the variations when the game is running