Do you know and like playing Bingo?

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Bingo is a very famous game here in country. It is being played from the side walk of tondo streets to nicely manicured lawn of exclusive subdivisions homes. I cannot think of any SM malls that have no bingo station on it. This is a game that most of us loves playing and makes as a past time. When I am not yet a mommy I used to play Bingo with my neighbors on my hubby's community. We usually starts playing at 3Pm and lasts until 7 PM or sometimes 9 when the game is good. Now I still play bingo once in a while but with my hubby. We sometimes sneak into our kids and play bingo at the malls. When I was a kid I use to play bingo in carnivals(perya). For those of you who are not familiar with the game, it is a card game. The name bingo is spelled out on the card and each letter has corresponding numbers, 5 under each letter (the choice of numbers are 1-15 for B, 16-30 for I, 31-45 for N, 46-60 for G and 61 to 75 fro O).The numbers 1 to 75 are put in a draw machine and drawn out one by one, if the card you are holding has the number that was called, you have to mark it. There are patterns that are used in each game, the usual are the straight lines, maybe standing, sleeping or sleeping granted that it has 5 marks. When somebody completed the pattern for the game, they shout bingo as to say that they won. There are really a lot of patterns ad some are really confusing. The usual as I said where the straight line. There were also a pattern that they call box, can be or small. The big box pattern is where the card all four sides are marked, meaning you have a number marked on straight top, straight down, and all numbers on B and G are marked too. The small box is where an inner box is formed, meaning, the numbers surrounding the 'free' center are all marked. There were also a pattern they called flower, some they ask you to make a U pattern. But the most difficult one is the blackout pattern, which you need to mark all the numbers on the card. On this game, this is usually the jackpot round and prize of the card is higher too. I really enjoy playing this one but I think it is more enjoyable to play this on carnivals because they have a unique term for each number and it really is funny.. some are: for 60 they say it as 'buntis'(preagnant, because the number looks pregnant) 16 they say it as batambata (young because they say it is sixteen years old) 23 they call it Jordan (as it is Jordan;s number) 29 as balisong (knife, they call the knife as 29) 56 as bumbay (no offense OK) 13 as malas (misfortune) and so on.. the master of the game has some good sense of humor that one will really enjoy the game even if you will not win it. Back in my perya days, we look forward to the bingo's frist game as it is free and I usually win those games (the usual prize was a bottle of sot sauce ) it is so nice reminiscing those bingo days. How about you guys?Do you like playing Bingo? and share some bingo names you know!