Tambola Ticket Generator and Number Caller, Free

This tambola ticket generator makes valid housie tickets, one at a time or as full sheets of six that use every number from 1 to 90 exactly once, and the number caller below draws 1 to 90 in random order with a board and an optional voice. It is free and runs in your browser: nothing to install, no sign-up, and nothing you make here is saved or sent anywhere.

How to play tambola with this generator

1. Choose how many tickets you need. Every 6 tickets make a full sheet that uses each number from 1 to 90 once.
2. Press New tickets for a fresh set, then Print tickets, or Copy as text to send them in a group chat.
3. Give each player one ticket, or a whole sheet if you want nobody to share a number.
4. In the number caller, press Call next number for each call, or turn on Auto-call. Tick Read numbers aloud to hear them.
5. Players mark their numbers as they are called. When someone claims a prize, check their numbers against the board.

What does a valid tambola ticket look like?

A tambola ticket has 3 rows and 9 columns and holds 15 numbers. Every row has exactly 5 numbers and 4 blanks. Each column covers one range: the first holds 1 to 9, the second 10 to 19, and so on, with the last holding 80 to 90. A column has at least one number and at most three, and the numbers in a column go up from top to bottom. Every ticket this page makes follows all of those rules.

What is a full sheet of tambola tickets?

A full sheet is 6 tickets that between them use every number from 1 to 90 once. That is how printed housie books are made, and it has a useful property: a player holding a whole sheet marks exactly one number on every call. Set the count to a multiple of 6 and every group of 6 tickets here is a full sheet. Tickets from different sheets can share numbers, just as tickets from different books do.

Tambola rules and the usual prizes

The caller draws numbers from 1 to 90 one at a time, and players mark them on their tickets. The group agrees the prizes before the first call. The common ones are:

• Early five: the first player to mark any 5 numbers.
• Top line, middle line, bottom line: all 5 numbers in that row.
• Four corners: the first and last numbers of the top and bottom rows.
• Full house: all 15 numbers on the ticket. This usually ends the game.

A claim only counts on numbers that have actually been called, so check it against the caller's board before you hand anything over. Many groups also agree that a claim must be made before the next number is called.

How to play tambola online with friends

Use Copy as text to paste the tickets into a group chat, one per player, and run the number caller on a video call so everyone hears the numbers. The text keeps the columns lined up inside a code block in Telegram and most other chats. If you are playing in one room, print the tickets: the print page shows only the tickets, two to a row.

Tambola, housie and bingo: the same game?

Tambola and housie are two names for the same game, 90-ball bingo on a 3 by 9 ticket. The bingo usually played in the United States uses 75 numbers on a 5 by 5 card, so its cards will not work with this caller. Keno also draws numbers, but it is a different game: players pick their own numbers before the draw instead of marking a printed ticket.

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