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I have an Add-on (not available in the marketplace) to quickly create a unique bingo board for each student. Use the Bingo template to create a unique choice board per student. Tell students to choose 5 in a row from the choice board to make Bingo! The Add-on randomizes your choices for each student and creates a different choice board each time.
Alice Keeler Add-ons
I create Add-ons, most of which are not available in the G Suite Marketplace. To access the Add-ons you will need to go to my link (in this case alicekeeler.com/bingo) which will prompt you to make a copy of the spreadsheet and wait about a minute for the code to load in the spreadsheet. Look for the Bingo menu in the Add-ons menu. You will be prompted to authorize the code. I personally coded this, it is safe. Remember you made a copy of the code so you are considered the owner of the code, the authorization is asking you for your own permission to your own spreadsheets in Google Drive.
setUp
From the menu choose “setUp.” This will insert a sheet with 25 checkboxes.
You will need a minimum of 25 choices for your Bingo choice board.
Create a list of choices for the students to do in column B. This is a Google Sheets spreadsheet, which means it is collaborative! You may want to share the spreadsheet with another teacher and you brainstorm together choices.
Uncheck Choices
By default the choices are checked. If you start by brainstorming your list of choices and decide that you do not like some of the choices, uncheck the checkbox next to it. Any choices unchecked will not be included in the choice board.
Make Additional Choices
In a regular choice board all students have the same choice board. Using this Bingo template to create your choice board will result in each student having a different choice board. Create greater variability by having more than 25 choices. Continue creating your choice list down column B. Use the Add-on menu to “Insert Checkboxes.” The Bingo Add-on will automatically detect how many choices you have listed and create a checkbox for the additional choices.
Set the Title
Notice on the list tab that cells C1 and D1 are highlighted Green. Replace the word “Title” with what you would like to title each choice board as. The Bingo choice boards have a spot on them for name and a spot for “Other.” Replace the word “Other” in D1 to customize the Bingo board. Do not type underneath, delete the word Title and put your text right in cell C1.
Make Bingo Sheets
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Once you’ve made a list of at least 25 choices use the Add-on menu to “Make Bingo Sheets.” You will be prompted for how many unique Bingo boards you want to create. This will randomize the list of choices and create a 5×5 grid of the choices. For each board, the list is randomized and created, resulting in a different choice board for each student.
Share Choice Boards
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Use Control P to print the boards. In the Print settings make sure it is set to “Portrait” since the default is probably “Landscape.”
Share Digital Copies
In the webinar video where I show you how to create the Bingo choice boards I realized that the titles do not export very well if you copy a tab to a new spreadsheet. I have fixed this. The menu now has an option “Make Individual.” This will take each unique choice board and copy it to a new spreadsheet. If you change the names of the tabs from “Bingo 1” to a students name this would be how you can put the students name on the individual spreadsheets. The copies to inherit the title of the spreadsheet so I would recommend renaming the spreadsheet from “Copy of Bingo Template By Alice Keeler” to something without my name 🙂
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Wayne's Review of Loadsa Bingo
Loadsa Bingo first appeared in 2018, opting for the no-wagering 'Real Bingo Network' from Dragonfish.
When a site is on a network (and most are) it just means that several games are linked with other sites, so that you get more players and more prize money in each room.
Loadsa Bingo also has the added advantage of being part of a second network of it's sister sites (all owned by the same company). These sister sites, which include Bingo Barmy and Chit Chat Bingo, also group together to offer a few more rooms that you can't play anywhere else. These are called the Royal Rooms, and special promos take place in their exclusive to this mini-network.
There are also more free bingo games on this mini-network than you tend to find on the wider one.
Bingo Games at Loadsa Bingo
Loadsa Bingo has all the bingo variants you would expect to find on a Dragonfish bingo site, which are mainly 90 ball and 75 ball rooms.
There are a few of the newer variations, such as Bingo Roulette and the card-based bingo game called Hit 52.
With it being Dragonfish, there are some things a bit different to other sites. For starters, you can't see a full schedule and pre-buy for multiple games in advance. You can pre-buy, but only for the next game. This is why they tend to have big games at the end of the week/month available in the lobby at all times.
The Royal Rooms
As I mentioned earlier, these rooms are exclusive to Loadsa Bingo and it's sister sites. There is usually at least one room open to all players who have made a deposit.
There are some other rooms that are 'invite only' which usually means access is granted when you get some kind of bonus, loyalty level or other incentive run by the site at different times. For the latest info it's best to look at the promotions page on Loadsa to see how to get access.
Ticket Prices
There is a good range of ticket prices across the rooms to suit all budgets, but just bear in mind most of the rooms do allow purchases of up to 96 tickets per game. This means there is potential for other players with bigger wallets to max out and therefore have a greater chance to win than you.
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96 tickets at 1p each won't break the bank, but 96 tickets at 25p or 50p might do, so be sure to think wisely about how much you want to buy.
There is an Even Stevens bingo room that you can play in from 4.00pm - 11.00pm each evening which gives all player 24 tickets each, making it fair and square. This might be a good room for newcomers to start out in.