Housie / Tambola / Bingo Game Number Generator

Its not education , technical or Salesforce related post. Its source code of Family fun game Tambola.

This weekend, we all friends gathered together to play one of most famous Indian game Tambola. This game is also known as Housie or Bingo. Normally there is central pot where numbers between 1 to 90 placed in piece of paper or plastic balls. Host reveals numbers one by one by randomly selecting those balls or piece of papers from pot. Problem for us were, we all have children and there is no way they will allow us to play with this way. Instead of host picking numbers, our kids would have been played with those. So what I did is, simple HTML page with random number generator between 1 to 90. Plugged my laptop to chromecast and voila, everyone in room playing traditional game in modern way 😉

Sometimes, its hard to remember Tambola number meaning, so added those as well.

Play Tambola Game online here.

If anyone interested in Source code, below it is :

Posted

July 25, 2017

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Jitendra

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24 responses to “Housie / Tambola / Bingo Game Number Generator”

Ashutosh Mehta

January 14, 2018

Well done. Good to see that you also posted the description / aliases for the numbers or the way numbers are called in this game. It makes it very interesting. Thank you for this!

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1. Jitendra Zaa
  
  January 14, 2018
  
  Sometimes fun with family is also very important. Enjoy !!!
  
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  1. bharat
    
    October 25, 2018
    
    Thank you very much
    
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  2. Shweta
    
    April 1, 2020
    
    Great work
    
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  3. Pratik Jain
    
    April 2, 2020
    
    Hi, thanks for this!! Numbers 28 and 49 did not get generated for me.
    
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  4. Shoba Mothinath
    
    June 18, 2020
    
    We have a time set for socials as we are working from home.would like to play this.Can you help.
    
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    1. Shoba Mothinath
      
      June 18, 2020
      
      what does king and queen stand for?
      
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  5. thecolourmoontechnologies
    
    November 20, 2020
    
    number 15 not working
    
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Ashok Chauhan

December 17, 2018

how about generating tickets printable on A4 size paper with running serial numbers 6×2 twelve tickets per page

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1. Shailesh Wath
  
  April 3, 2020
  
  I also need tickets can anyone suggest where I can get tickets.
  
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Shreerang Aras

January 29, 2019

Very good software. But why the numbers do not appear at the correct places. For example – no. 1 should appear in the first box, no. 2 in second box , no. 90 in last box. Also there should be vocal announcement of numbers.

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1. Ronak
  
  March 25, 2020
  
  It’s arranged vertically.
  
  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4
  5
  6
  7
  8
  9
  
  And so on
  
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2. movy
  
  March 29, 2020
  
  He is indexing from 0…
  
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Shravan Khare

February 11, 2019

Number 9 doesn’t show/come up. Try it!

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Big Spins

July 27, 2019

I also love to play bingo games with my family and sometime playing these type of games is lovable. But the number greater idea is really unique one.

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Neelaksh

November 2, 2019

They have not shown 39 and 21 and is saying that all numbers are exhausted

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Simran Chawla

December 24, 2019

The game is really cool but there’s a bug in the code, without generating some numbers it displays the message the numbers are exhausted, just to help.

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harish gaba

April 3, 2020

hi i want crate own online game tombola

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Mady

April 6, 2020

I was able to recreate the error that people are seeing of not all numbers getting generated. The issue is when you are impatient and click too many times, or are used to double clicking.

There is a simple fix for that – we just disable the ‘generate number’ button as soon as we receive a click, and then re-enable it after we are done with generating the next number and the animation.

Here is the suggested fix of the click handler of the btnGenerate button (indented the 4 additional lines of code):

$(‘#btnGenerate’).click(function() {
$(this).val(‘Please wait …’)
.attr(‘disabled’,’disabled’);
$(‘#prevNum’).text($(‘#numCounter’).text());
random = bingo.generateNextRandom().toString();
$(“#numCounter”).css(“display”,”none”);
$(“#mirageElement”).css(“display”,””);
$(‘#numCounter’).text(random);
//$(‘td.cell’ + random).addClass(‘selected’);
$(“#mirageElement”).numAnim({
endAt: 90,
duration: animDuration
});
setTimeout(function(){
if(bingoNumberWords[random-1]){
$(“#bingoWords”).text(bingoNumberWords[random-1]);
}else{
$(“#bingoWords”).text(“”);
}
$(‘td.cell’ + random).addClass(‘selected’);
$(“#numCounter”).animate({zoom: ‘200%’}, “slow”);
$(“#numCounter”).animate({zoom: ‘100%’}, “slow”);
$(‘#btnGenerate’).val(‘Generate Number’)
$(‘#btnGenerate’).removeAttr(‘disabled’);
}, animDuration*1000);
});

Enjoy!

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Gaurav

April 7, 2020

Where I get tickets to play this game? I want to play this with my Colleagues online on call please help me with tickets

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geek4teck

April 10, 2020

Here is the npm package which helps you generate standard Tambola tickets and get Draw Sequence – https://www.npmjs.com/package/tambola

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Caroll

April 12, 2020

This is awesome! I love the descriptions. Will definitely use this with my family! Thank you!!!

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sahi

May 15, 2020

i had try your code by pasting it in notepad with .htm format but its output is not able to run output(i.e. not able to generate numbers)

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Sanil

December 22, 2021

I am jooking for tambola website but then i see you give source code too i am very happy with that nice job .

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