BINGO BINGO BINGO in Bismarck!!!

I finally won at Bingo! We haven't gone in probably a month or more because people have been busy since it is summer. But the reat thing about it being summer is that lots of people are busy, and so there are not nearly as many people at bingo. Which means two great things... 1-there is a lot less smoke, which makes it more pleasant while playing. 2-there is a greater percentage chance of winning. To win the big prize, you need to black-out your card in 55 numbers or less, so that is obviously not dependent on the number of people. But for the fun prizes and the consolation prizes, that does depends on the number of people, so the fewer people, the greater the chance of winning. And I FINALLY WON!!! Now the downside of fewer people is that the consolation prize is based on a percentage of cards sold... so the less cards sold, the lower the prize. My grand total winnings were only $15 (in the winter they are more like $30-50 consolations). But, still, it's $15 that I didn't have before. And being the engineer/finance person that I am, I spent $9 total for the night, so a $6 profit on $9 investment is a really good rate of return. More importantly, I got to yell BINGO, which was awesome... even more awesome was hearing the groans of all the losers who were SO CLOSE! Suckers!!!