Here are some fun bingo facts to use in the bingo chat rooms with your friends.
• The largest bingo game ever played catered to a staggering 60,000 players!
• 30% of bingo players are under the age of 35.
• Online bingo participation is roughly 80% female and 20% male.
• Bingo was first known as 'beano' - as players originally kept score via a series of beans!
• Land-based bingo halls employ thousands of people worldwide, including bingo callers, bingo spotters, bingo cashiers, and bingo operators.
• The average bingo game lasts between 3-6 minutes.
• Last year, more people played bingo than attended NFL games.
• Bingo is one of the biggest contributors to charities and social organizations in Europe and North America, and is the key source of community fundraising.
• 95% of bingo players have won a game at least once.
• Bingo received the second highest number of votes to be the national past time of Belgium.
• According to one calculation, there are approximately 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 (five hundred fifty-two septillion, four hundred forty-six sextillion, four hundred seventy-four quintillion, sixty-one quadrillion, one hundred twenty-eight trillion, six hundred forty-eight billion, six hundred one million, six hundred thousand) possible arrangements of the numbers on a bingo card.
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