Odds of winning at Mecca Bingo?

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somethingcorporate wrote: »

I think the point was there are far more appropriate forums to discuss things like this. Like Discussion Time.

Sorry for posting a mathematical question in a forum with people mathematically minded.

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Russe11 wrote: »

It all depends on the % of ticket price that feeds into the prize fund, this is where the site makes its money, the odds of winning are irrelevent to them.

Somebody has to win, since the number are drawn until a winning combination has be achieved, spilt prize occur where participants get a win drawn on the same number.

The reason there are so many bingo operations online is that its the highest house edge gaming product you will come across, they is no regulation to the payout required, some sites run as low as 25% going into prizes.

These sites are making £100s of pounds a min, with vitually no liability, that how they can afford such aggresive marketing, all day long on tv. They offer bonuses in 100s of % to sign up... £10 deposit and get £50 free etc. the reality is though you are never getting £50, you just getting the choice to buy £50 worth of free tickets which the face value is far less than than.

Online bingo is very different to the land based clubs since the online version actually makes the operator a good magin, land based clubs rely on slot players and the bingo being the draw.

Bingo is ok for a bit of fun and if you must play the sites sign up offer, but then after that walk away and use another sites promotion.

I was talking about the bricks and mortar places.

somethingcorporate

This is not a maths forum - it is one for savings and investments. Your question is completely unrelated and hence would be better suited elsewhere. Perhaps the gambling forum?

You could argue most forums here are maths forums - credit cards, loans, mortgages, debt, bankruptcy etc are all numbers based. I have just answered a price calculation question which is very maths based in the business forum. Infact looking down the list there is not a single forum in the top half of the list where the numbers are not the fundamental elements of the discussion.

Your sarcastic response is not really appreciated - perhaps you should look for a GCSE maths help forum.

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somethingcorporate wrote: »

This is not a maths forum - it is one for savings and investments. Your question is completely unrelated and hence would be better suited elsewhere. Perhaps the gambling forum?

Sorry I didn't realise the fun police were in town.

somethingcorporate wrote: »

Your sarcastic response is not really appreciated

You're response is not really appreciated either.

somethingcorporate wrote: »

perhaps you should look for a GCSE maths help forum.

I'll send you the link too given your lack of answer.

somethingcorporate

Your chance of winning is 1 in 300 if the game is played until 1 person wins.

It's not about the "fun police" being in town. It is about using the forum as intended.

You've been here longer than I have and still don't realise how it is supposed to be used?

Edit: It's actually slightly more complicated than 1 in 300 but given you don't know how a forum is supposed to be used you have absolutely no chance in understanding the complex maths behind the actual calculations.

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somethingcorporate wrote: »

Edit: It's actually slightly more complicated than 1 in 300 but given you don't know how a forum is supposed to be used you have absolutely no chance in understanding the complex maths behind the actual calculations.

You mean you don't know.

cepheus

Deleted_User wrote: »

Hello!

Not strictly savings related but you guys seem the best at maths!

Bit of a weird question... Does anyone know the odds of winning a 'house' (3 full lines) at Mecca Bingo?

Saliant bits of info:

300 people people
90 ball game
11 'houses' won i.e. the booklet of game cards has 11 pages

I ask as last night was my first night and I oddly won £300 for a £10 stake!

Is it the same maths as winning the lottery?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lottery_mathematics

So as in the above link the odds of picking 6 balls out of 49 are 1 in 13,983,816. Essentially a house is 15 balls (prepicked) out of 90 or as per Excel:

=HYPGEOMDIST(15,15,15,90)

Or 1 in 45,795,673,964,460,800

Surely this can't be true?!

Thanks

David

David

I doubt if you have supplied enough details to calculate the odds, is this the game? Presumably any one of the 11 cards have to be full to 'win'?

A game of 90 ball bingo will normally be played in three stages: one line, two lines and full house. In a "one line" game players need to mark a complete horizontal line across one card (i.e., 5 numbers marked). The aim of a 'two lines' game is to complete any two marked lines horizontally across one card (i.e., 10 numbers marked). Finally a “full house” means all the numbers marked off on one card (all 15 numbers), as in a regular coverall game. The prize split differs for each stage of the game. The prize will be shared equally among the winners if there is more than one. The full house is always the largest prize in any one game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_bingo


so the question is if 300 people play against one another, and randomly numbered balls numbered 1 to 90 are picked out, what are the odds of you matching 15 randomly numbers on any of 11 cards before or at the same time as any of the others? I assume the balls are not replaced in bingo.

Can't be bothered to work it out exactly but if any one person wins half the time and any two people win half the time it would be 1 in 225.

Data_Monkey_2

Deleted_User wrote: »

So the bingo hall pays out £3630 but we all paid £10 or £3000 so yeah, by my estimation they're making a loss. One assumes it was maybe 400 or 500 then but I can't believe it was more than 500. I'm still not 100 hundred percent sold on the odds above but thanks!

But some of those people playing are old hands who can play a dozen cards at once, so even though there might have been 300 people in there, they could have been playing over 1,000 cards.

Russe11

furthermore you have to make an assumption that everyone that is playing has not missed any calls.

innovate

Deleted_User wrote: »

So the bingo hall pays out £3630 but we all paid £10 or £3000 so yeah, by my estimation they're making a loss.

I might misunderstand what you mean, but only a Bingo company run by a monkey would make a loss.