Bingo Hits Belize

I'm not sure if I've just been way out of the loop or what but it seems like Bingo has just taken off in Belize. Over the past month, I have heard so much talk about playing bingo that I feel like I need to let you all in on the excitement. I think its fascinating how they play bingo here - its a nationwide game played twice a week!

Bingo in Belize is a lot like playing the lottery. Anyone interested in playing buys a ticket for $2 at one of the local shops. Every Wednesday and Saturday night at 8:30 pm everybody sits down in front of their tvs and waits for a pretty lady to come on and start calling numbers. If you have the number called, you mark it off on your card at home. The computer system can tell when somebody has won and the pretty lady will announce that there was a winner. Prizes range from $500 for a row to $200,000 for the jackpot which is all the numbers on your card called in less than 49 numbers. Once somebody has won a prize (like a row), nobody else can win it. If nobody wins the jackpot, the amount continues to increase each game which is why its gotten so high and probably why there has been a lot more talk about bingo.

I can think of a lot of other events that can bring a nation together but there is something that seems so innocent over a nationwide obsession with bingo!