How to play

Give each player a ticket. A ticket has three rows, and each row has five numbers.
The caller picks numbers one at a time, at random, and announces each one clearly.
Players strike off the number if it is on their ticket.
A player who completes a winning pattern calls out its name at once, for example "Top line!"
The caller checks the ticket against the called numbers. A wrong claim is called a "bogey", and that ticket is out of the game.
The game ends with the "full house": all fifteen numbers on one ticket.

Tips and variations

The usual patterns: early five (any five numbers), four corners, top line, middle line, bottom line and full house.
Our free Tambola number caller and ticket maker calls the numbers for you and prints tickets.
Play for fun, sweets or small gifts. We suggest not playing for money.
On WhatsApp, send each player a photo of a ticket, call numbers in the group, and ask winners to send a photo of their marked ticket.

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