We sometimes hear complaints from bingo chairpeople that they occasionally have bingo players with duplicate bingo cards. This can be a problem for bingos because bingo players are forced to share every prize with another bingo player who is playing the exact same bingo book as them. Not only this, but sometimes duplicate bingo books can cause unwarranted suspicion of cheating. So, this is something every bingo chairperson should want to avoid.
How to Avoid Duplicate Bingo Cards with Collated Bingo Paper (Bingo Books)
Without going into too much detail, it's helpful to know the basics of how collated bingo paper (bingo books) is manufactured. Collated bingo paper (differently colored bingo sheets glued together to form a bingo book) is manufactured in a variety of "series", or numerical sequences of 9,000 different bingo faces. Each series is formed into "sets" of collated bingo books. Each set of collated bingo books is broken into numbered boxes, for example 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, and 4 of 4. (NOTE: the number of boxes per set can vary, but we will use 4 boxes for this example)
To avoid duplicate bingo cards with collated bingo books, you should:
1. Locate your box numbers of collated bingo books before your bingo. Then, make sure that you are rotating through the different boxes. (NOTE: It doesn't matter if you use box 1 of 4 and then 3 of 4 and then 4 of 4 and then back to 2 of 4. It only matters that the next box you use is different from all other boxes used in the same bingo)
2. Order your bingo books by the set, not by individual boxes.
If you order individual boxes of collated bingo cards, your more likely to receive box 1 of 4 with this order and again with the next order. By ordering a complete set of collated bingo paper (all 4 boxes), you will receive all of the boxes within a set and you can make sure that you are rotating properly through them.
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