Bingo vs. lottery

Lottery-style games date back to the Pharaohs of Egypt, therefore, Keno, for instance, a very popular kind of lotto is over 3000 years old. The first lottery with prize money was founded in Italy, in 1530. Nowadays, lotteries bring an essential part of each country’s income.

As compared to bingo, where thousands of people win millions of dollars and euros each day, the chances of winning at the lottery are pretty much against you, as few of those who buy lottery tickets ever win. The chances of you are one of those few persons are not even worth considering.

What is applicable to both bingo and lottery games is that it’s better to play on nights at the beginning of the week for instance, or on nights when there are not many players in the casino you’d like to try your luck at bingo, for example. As you’re playing a game of chance, if there are fewer players, there are fewer cards in the play, which is why you should buy more cards and thus increase your chances of winning.

Lottery TV commercials with slogans like "a dollar and a dream” or “how to become a millionaire for life” seem pretty challenging, but not realistic at all, so don’t fall for them so easily. Still, if you like taking chances, we advise you to always calculate and determine how much you want to spend on the game each day and try to stick to that amount of money. The fact that the tickets cost only $1 is psychologically intended to make you want to buy more and more tickets, even though the chances of winning at lottery are quite insignificant.

A bingo card doesn’t cost more than $1 per play either, besides, it is easy to play and more likely to win, offering a better than 1 in 5 chance of winning. In bingo, each player purchases as many bingo cards as he wants. Each card has five rows and five columns, therefore 25 spaces. The columns are labeled from left to right, with the letters ‘B’, ‘I’, ‘N’, ‘G’ and ‘O’. The spaces (except for the center) are given values. Regular bingo can be any of the following: 5 numbers in vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line, the 4 outside corners, or a postage stamp in a corner. The caller randomly pulls numbered bingo balls and calls out the number. The players have a few seconds to find the numbers on their bingo cards and mark them off.

A bingo game doesn’t end until there is a winner or even more! Every bingo game has a winning card and your chances of winning depend on the number of cards you’ve purchased for the game! So, practically, in bingo you may increase your chances of winning by buying more cards. So, when playing bingo you don’t hastily waste your money, as there is always a winner.

As for the lottery, if we consider the Canadian 6/49 Lottery where 6 numbered balls are drawn from a total of 49 balls, the probability is extremely low: 1 in 13.983.816, as the latest statistics show. It is impossible to predict the lotto outcome, there’s no way you could lower the odds against you. Only luck is to decide which balls will fall through the trap door of the machines. The chances of winning the lottery depend on the number of separate numbers drawn and on the total of numbers they are chosen from. The smaller this number is, the fewer any possible outcomes.

As winning the prize with such chances is almost impossible, the jackpot increases until someone somehow hits it. This someone is only a person or sometimes a small group of persons who have bought a lottery ticket in advance. As compared to the winning odds in bingo, the odds of winning the lottery as even lower than getting into a car or plane accident or getting struck by lightening!

All in all, if you have been playing at the lottery for some time and haven’t won anything so far, it’s time you reoriented your gambling money in another direction, pretty similar to what you’re probably used to, but much more likely to win!