Bingo75 is played daily using a set of numbers from 1 to 75 instead of the traditional tombola with a set of 90 numbers. In each draw, fifty-five (55) numbers are randomly drawn using a certified Random Number Generator.

Players may win in three categories, namely:

• Corners: if the player has the number in each corner of a given grid drawn by the 30th number;

• Snowball: if the 24 numbers in a grid are drawn by the 50th number, and

• House: if the 24 numbers in a grid are drawn by the 55th number.

Each Bingo75 ticket consists of five grids printed in a 5 by 5 grid format. Each ticket costing e3 gives a player the chance of winning the three categories on the same ticket!

A player can only participate in the game by buying a Bingo75 ticket at any Maltco Lotteries point of sale. The ticket will only be valid for the draw immediately following the purchase.

Players can watch the daily draw presentation held at 5pm at any of Maltco’s points of sale or on Maltco’s website www.maltco.com/Bingo75

The Snowball will start from a minimum guaranteed amount of e50,000. If no winners are declared in either the Corners or House categories, then the funds for those categories are rolled over to the Snowball category of the next draw.

The game of bingo can be traced back to a lottery game called “Lo Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia” played in Italy in circa 1530. By the 18th century, the game had matured and in France, playing cards, tokens and the reading of numbers had been added to the game. In the 19th century, bingo was widely used in Germany for educational purposes to teach children spelling, animal names and multiplication tables. In Malta, bingo has been popular for many years and indeed, Bingo75 builds on its precursor Tiritombola, which used to be operated by the Department of Public Lotto. “Bingo75 offers something different from the traditional tombola or how Tiritombola used to be played,” commented Mario Cassar, Maltco’s general director. “Our focus groups indicated that players wanted something different from how Tiritombola was structured and we believe that Bingo75 fits those evolving needs”.