YetiBingo

YetiBingo is a game targeted at the elderly and everyone who enjoys playing Bingo. Each player gets their own 5 by 5 board filled with numbers 1-75. Five numbers between 1 and 15 are randomized in the first column, five numbers between 16 and 30 in the second and so forth. The goal for each player is to follow the randomized new numbers appearing on the screen and check if they have the numbers on their own board and mark the ones they have. When a player gets a full horizontal row of marked numbers, they press the bingo button and audibly call out “Bingo!”. After the first full bingo row the players compete for finding two rows, and after two rows they compete for three rows and so forth. The true winner of the game is the player who gets their board full and calls it out first.

Game modes

In the main menu the players can decide whether they want to play on boards appearing on the screen or on their own paper bingo boards that they fill themselves. Playing on the screen fits up to four players, whereas playing on paper has no player limit.

Play on paper -mode

Play on screen -mode

Settings and user interface

When playing on the screen the game gives four bingo boards where each number can be tapped to mark it checked if the number is among all the numbers randomized during the game so far. If the tapped number has not been randomized yet the board is turned dark and doesn’t respond to input for a few seconds. Each board also has a bingo button on the right side for calling out horizontal bingo rows and full board bingo’s.

In both paper and screen playing modes the game offers a simple user interface that allows players to adjust the game. On the bottom row of the UI buttons there are three small buttons for toggling automatic timed number randomization on or off, as well as adjusting the time delay between randomizing new numbers. If players prefer to control when new numbers are randomized themselves, they can use the next number button for randomizing a new number on the screen. New numbers are added to the list of previous numbers below the UI buttons and the list can be scrolled to check all previous numbers. The last button on the bottom row returns the game to the main menu for switching between game modes or to start a new game once a game is over.

Above the main menu button there are two buttons with a character icon. One of them toggles the spoken audio from randomizing new numbers and getting bingo’s on or off, and the second can be used to change the number of bingo boards on the screen. In the play on paper game mode there are also two additional buttons above the rest. Mirror view button switches the UI to the other side of the screen in case there isn’t a lot of room to stand on the right side of the screen for UI access. The bingo button can be used to play a congratulation sound effect when a player scores a bingo.

Print pre-made YetiBingo boards

Link: YetiBingo Boards