Generate your own personalized bingo cards
- How To Make A Homemade Bingo Machine
- How To Use A Bingo Machine
- Homemade Bingo Machine
- How Much Does A Bingo Machine Cost
This tutorial explains how to generate bingo cards with the application. To do so, you have to create a new game. Each game will be divided into three stages: make the bingo cards, create the design by importing images and print the cards. The first design is free and you can make up to 5 designs per game. The cards will be randomly generated so that there are no duplicate cards in the same game.
On the main page, click at the top-right corner on “⊕ New Game“.
Game settings:
Available for mobile, tablet and Android TV. The 'Bingo at Home' app is a bingo caller to play bingo at home, among family or friends. When a bingo game starts, the app begins to call the bingo balls. The game can be paused and restarted as needed, for example, to check if the line or bingo is correct, to check all the numbers already called, etc. Make each bingo board unique. For a successful bingo game, you can’t have duplicate boards. To make each board unique, you’ll need to sort your list of words in each staging sheet by the random values. Because the values are populated by the RAND function, each time you copied the sheet, the values should have refreshed.
Choose the main settings of your bingo cards.
Number of cards
Choose the number of cards that will be generated by the application for this game (minimum of 25 cards, maximum of 1000 cards).
Cost (credits)
The card generation costs 2 credits per 25 cards. The cost increases with each multiple of 25 cards for up to 1000 cards per game (40 credits). You can learn more about the costs List: “Costs List“.
Choice of model
Choose one of the 5 sheet models from the location of the card(s) on the sheet. The gray areas represent the spaces available around the cards where you can insert images during the design of the cards. The page layout of the models is suitable for US Letter size paper 8.5″ x 11″ (215.9 mm x 279.4 mm).
Advanced settings:
The advanced settings are set by default to generate standard bingo cards containing numbers from 1 to 75 with a free center. Choose the customization options that better fit your needs.
Game name
Enter the name of your game. It will be shown on the main page of your games list.
Column headers
Modify the column headers BINGO for another five letters word.
Card title
The title will appear at the top of all the cards. It can be modified during the design.
Kind of bingo
Numbers: To create bingo cards containing numbers in the squares (standard bingo).
Custom text lines: To create bingo cards with personalized text lines in the squares. You can enter the text lines at the next step.
Event date
Choose the date of your bingo or disable the function. By default, the date of creation of the game will be included on the cards. If you want another date, select it on the calendar. The date can be modified during the design.
Card number in the corners
This function allows the card number in the 4 corners to be displayed. When a player gets a bingo, the organizer rips a numbered corner of the card and keeps it for the final draw. This way, he can make a draw among the winners at the end of the game. This function can be modified during the design.
The cards will be numbered from # to #
Enter the number of the first card in your game. This function allows the numbering of another pack of cards to follow sequentially.
Number of random values
Set the number of random values that will be distributed randomly in the squares of the cards. If you use a bingo cage, this number represents the 75 numbered balls. By choosing the number of random values, it is as if you have changed the number of numbered balls inside the bingo cage. You can set the amount of values from 25 to 150. For a standard bingo game, choose 75 (numbers from 1 to 75). If you want to define the number of values more precisely and understand the variables that influence a bingo, go to the bingo calculator page.
Center case
How To Make A Homemade Bingo Machine
The center of the card can be either free or have a square containing a value like the others.
When you have finished selecting your game settings, click “Create cards“. If you want to design the cards, click “Create cards and make the design“. Note that you will be able to design the cards later.
To view the bingo cards that you just created, go in the row of your game and click the “Cards” icon. The last game created or edited will be shown at the top of the games list.
Bingo with words or phrases
To make bingo cards with words or phrases in the squares, select in the advanced settings the type of bingo “Custom text lines“. Select the number of words you have in your list at “Number of random values“. You can now click “Next step“.
Enter on the table the text lines that will appear in the squares of your bingo cards. The table is divided into five columns BINGO. To quickly import a list, use the “Copy and paste” function (Word, Excel, text, …). The values entered will be placed on the table according to the selected input method. You will not be able to change the input method once your game will be saved.
Input method: By columns (default setting)
“Copy and paste” the text lines on the table and they will be distributed by columns.
Input method: By rows
When you select the imput method “By rows“, a window will appear in your browser “Do you want to leave this site?“. To continue, click “Leave“.
“Copy and paste” the text lines on the table and they will be distributed by rows while alternating columns. This method allows a better distribution of values to avoid inserting the text lines in alphabetical order in the same columns.
How To Use A Bingo Machine
When finished, click “Save list and create cards“. To view your cards, go in the row of your game and click the “Cards” icon.
Homemade Bingo Machine
How Much Does A Bingo Machine Cost
Once you have saved your list, you will have 12 hours to make corrections to the values by clicking “Correct the list of values“. This function cost 2 credits per 25 cards depending on how many cards are in the game. Note that the values will not be updated in the simulation lists that were made before the modification.