User:Saguaro 48/sandbox

CARD BINGO. This is a game popular in RV resorts and Adult Communities. Usual to play 10 rounds, five dimes, four quarters and the final game for a dollar. Tables of four each deal out a standard deck of 52 playing cards. Players arrange their thirteen cards in suit order in front of them. A caller draws from another deck, shows and announces the card. Players that have that card in their array place it in a center pile. Play continues until a player has one card left and knocks to indicate this. Play continues with other players knocking as they get to one card. Game ends when a player tosses his last card and calls "BINGO". Winner collects around the room. The caller shuffles the deck while players shuffle and deal next hand. Winner of last game cuts the caller's deck. For variety in games, caller can direct all picture cards to be tossed in immediately at the beginning of a game. Or, caller can direct players to trade all the cards they have of the cut suit with their diagonal opponent. Caller can permit everyone to toss in any card of their choice before the first card is called. Another variation is "Last Man Standing" in which everyone stands up and caller announces a card. If player has that card he sits down. Play continues as more and more players sit until a few remain. Last player standing wins. For the final game, players can knock when they have two cards remaining, and stand when they are down to one card. This is an easy game for all to enjoy and unlike traditional bingo, participants are free to socialize during the game.