British Bingo

British Bingo is an open source, multiplatform, easy-to-use, user-friendly and free browser-based British bingo game that can simulate over 10,000 players and supports 3 by 9 boards.

Features at a glance

Key features include the ability to let players choose how fast the caller reads out the numbers, choose how much the players chat, change the size of the game to fit on a small screen, and hear the players and caller talk. With British bingo, users will be able to play the game online via the bbingo.net76.net or bbingo.eu.pn websites.

At a glance, you will be able to enable or disable various options, such as player’s chat, shadows, round corners, fade colors, reverse boards, as well as the ability to view all balls. Click the Settings button to access a wide range of options that allow you to tweak the game even further.

Under the hood and supported OSes

The software is written in JavaScript dynamic computer programming language and HyperText Markup Language (HTML), which makes it platform-independent, supported on any GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Both 32-bit and 64-bit hardware architectures have been tested.

Getting started with British Bingo

Users can download the project either as a zip of gz archive, which contain a single HTML file that you can double click to open it with your default web browser. The rules are simple, click on a number on your board when it is called, click a line when

When a row of numbers has been called, you must click a ‘line’ and when all the numbers on your board have been called, you can click ‘house’. Additionally, you can unmark a number by click on it again, as well as to right-click on it to view if it has been called.

What is new in this release:

• adds two small charts showing: the time left before the caller reads out the next
• number, and how many numbers the players mark on their boards each time the
• caller reads out a number
• adds two animations when a player has a "house", showing an old lady
• adds an animation when a player has a "line", showing stars

What is new in version :

• Adds a small chart showing how many numbers have been marked on the boards of the players
• Adds more fonts.
• Adds more colors to the help text.
• Add round corners to buttons and fields.

What is new in version 1.45:

• New features:
• reduces the size of your board to fit a smaller tablet
• lists the players whose boards you cannot see because they are not sitting at your table
• if you have clicked on your board to find out whether we are playing for a line or a house, then if your board moves then the message moves with your board
• you can now see how strong a player is by hovering over (or clicking) their name in the scoreboard
• shows the total number of balls taken to get the lines and houses in the statistics below the scoreboard. Shows a more precise average and standard deviation when you hover or click these numbers in the statistics
• makes it easier to gather statistics: press "Setup" on the "General" section of the settings
• adds graphs of the average number of balls to get a "line" or a "house" as the number of players varies: see the "Stats" link on the first screen
• adds more faded colors, shadows and round corners to the settings and scoreboard
• adds an animation that makes the word "house" glow
• animates the introduction at the start of the game This release fixes 6
• Bugs:
• where the shadow on a board partly obscures the name of the player
• where the shadows are too prominent on the numbers on the boards of players
• where the words near the progress bar are too small to read easily on a tablet
• where the caller may repeat themselves unnecessarily when you interrupt the caller checking the numbers of a player who has called &

What is new in version 1.37:

• This version adjusts the layout for an iPad.
• You can now find out if you are playing for a "line" or a "house" by clicking on squares without numbers on your board.
• Another animation is added which draws dots.
• This releases fixes a fatal bug which made the game stop after the animation which draws concentric circles (or squares).
• On Internet Explorer 11, the buttons to increase or decrease the numbers are now shown.
• The animation which draws many copies of the game now reflects the value of the "overall size" in the settings.
• Mobile phones are now identified as touch-screen devices

What is new in version 1.36:

• Fixes a bug and the number of players at the start now varies.

What is new in version 1.35:

• This version fixes three bugs and adds more shadows and round corners on newer browsers.

What is new in version 1.34:

• This version adds more variety to how players chat (including new sounds) and fixes two bugs.

What is new in version 1.33:

• This version adds smaller versions of the settings screen and fixes three bugs.

What is new in version 1.32:

• Users can now play without the players chatting or leaving or joining.

What is new in version 1.31:

• This version fixes bugs related to skipping the checking of lines and houses.
• The caller now says "back to you" after you call line or house while a player is chatting.

What is new in version 1.30:

• You can now skip past the caller reading out the numbers called so far when a player joins during a game.

What is new in version 1.28:

• This version fixes bugs which caused the scores to be wrong and left boards highlighted when the user pressed "end game".
• Now, you can end the game early when you call house.
• You now say "house" when you are watching a game.
• This release adds another animation for a house.

Requirements:

• A web browser that supports JavaScript