Like every year, it is traditional to play Tombola with friends and relatives during the Christmas holidays. Generally at least one person in the group has a Bingo but, often it happens that there are no numbers in the extraction bag, that the folders are not enough or that the scoreboards are missing.
Here then it could be useful to make the bingo at home, printing the folders on the computer even with a graphic format pleasing to the eye.
The computer can also become a useful tool for pulling numbers on the game board completely randomly.
Since Tombola is a purely Italian game (although American Bingo can be identical), by searching the internet you will find various amateur programs to make bingo on the computer, some for free, others for a fee.
Fortunately, there are also those who designed and made available for free download, folders and a board to play the Christmas Bingo in the company.
These are only to be printed so you can mark the points by writing on them with a pen or pencil.
On the Fotomomo website you will find the Tombola folders in PDF, in different graphic models that can be chosen according to your tastes.
One of these models consists of a package of sheets in PDF with 60 folders, three on each page.
If these sheets are printed on rigid cards that can be purchased at the stationery shop, you can then easily cut them out and have the 60 folders available.
The other models are free of charge up to 30 cards, then payment via Paypal is required to get more (up to 900).
Always from the same site you can download for free the Scoreboard with all the numbers from 1 to 90, to play.
Another site to download bingo cards and billboards is the Creagratis site.
However, there are no numbers to be extracted that should be bought separately in some toy store.
Alternatively, if you can play with a computer on, you can use an excellent opensource program that extracts the numbers at random for Tombola or Bingo .
This is SuperTombola that does not even require installation and can be brought to friends' homes with a USB stick.
With SuperTombola you can also create folders with random numbers and, this time, everything is free, without limits.
To generate folders to be printed, go to the program's Tools menu, go to " Generate Boards ", choose the number of folders to be printed, give a name that will appear above each folder, press " Generate DB " and, finally, give a name to the newly created file.
Now, you can go to the printer key in the SuperTombola menu, select the newly created .stb file and print the folders.
Here too you will get sheets with three folders per page, all with different numbers, from 1 to 90, which will have to be cut by hand.
To extract the numbers you can use the Tombolagratis site that puts a display board on the screen, fills it out as numbers are drawn and also gives a name for each number drawn, inspired by the digital world, but pronounced in Neapolitan
Finally, if one of the players owns an iPhone, he can download the Tombola Parlante application and extract the numbers at random.
On Android, a similar app is this.
As a Tombola (or Bingo) related topic, I remember the article on how to draw random numbers using a computer.
