Tambola is also known as Indian Bingo or Housie. Tambola by Octro is a LIVE ONLINE party game that you can play with REAL PLAYERS from around the world or you can have your own Private Party. You can play anytime and anywhere.
How to play
The Caller/Dealer calls the randomly generated number/cue one at a time. Pay proper attention to the numbers that are being called. If a number called by Caller appears on your ticket, tap on the number to mark it. Carefully keep track of the called numbers that are on your ticket. Similarly, all other players mark off the numbers on their tickets as the numbers are called by the Caller. The winner being the first person to mark off all their numbers of a winning combination. A player can have more than one winning combinations on a single ticket. If a particular winning combination has been successfully claimed, it cannot be claimed again.
You play Tambola with virtual money. A new player is a Level 1 player and gets 10,000 chips. For a level 1 player, each ticket costs 500 chips. The winning amount for each winning combination is based on the number of tickets sold.
Table Types
Tambola offers different types of tables to suit different types of players. These are
Public Table
This is the default game mode that Tambola offers. In this gamemode, you are matched with random people who are also playing on Public Tables and compete to win. To join a public table, simply click on the “Play” button in the main, select how many tickets you want to play with and start playing!
Tambola party
You can create your own private Tambola party and invite friends to join the party. Launch Tambola and select Party. Now you will see two options: Create and Join.
To create a party, select Create. Select the ticket price and select Proceed. Your own Tambola table is created and now you can invite your Facebook friends. After inviting your friends, close the friends list. You will see Party ID and password. Pass this information to your friends whom you allow to join your table.
Click Join to join any existing party.Now you will see two options: Friend’s Party and Enter Code.
Friend’s Party. To join a party created by your facebook friend, select Friend’s Party. Select the party that you want to join. Also, if a Facebook friend invites you to join his party, you will get message notification on the Tambola screen. Click the message and you will join the table.
Enter Code.If you have Party ID and password, select Enter Code. Enter the required information. You will be able to join the party.
When you create a Tambola Party, the collection from sale of the tickets will be distributed to the winners. Besides winning chips, you can announce your own prizes for the winners. The winners are: early five, four corners, top line, middle line, bottom line and full house.
Event
Be on the lookout for Events. These are special game modes that last for a limited time and usually offer huge rewards for the winners. Be it weekly, seasonal, promotional, etc., events occasionally take place in the game. Whenever there is an event taking place, a button will appear in the main menu, clicking on which will take you to the event table.
Sponsored Events
While most events require an entry fee and the rewards are in the form of in-game currency, there are sponsored events that are free for the players to enter, and reward the winners with actual real gifts, like a phone, or bike, and so on. So don’t miss out on Sponsored events and stand a chance to win something amazing!
Tambola Ticket
Each player can choose to play with 1, 2 or 3 tickets. A beginner should begin with 1 ticket. Each ticket costs some Virtual money (chips). The more experienced players play with 2 or 3 tickets. It requires more skill and speed to play with multiple tickets, but it also multiplies your chances to claim the winning combinations.
The Tambola ticket or card has 3 horizontal rows/lines and 9 vertical columns with a total of 27 boxes. Each line has 5 numbers on it and four boxes are left blank. Thus a ticket has a total on 15 numbers. The first vertical column can have numbers from 1 to 9, the second column from 11 to 19, the third column from 21 to 29, and so on and the last column can have numbers from 81 to 90.
Winning Combinations
The winning combinations on Tambola tickets are:
1. Early five. The ticket that is first to have any 5 called numbers.
2. Four corners. The ticket that is first to have all the four corners called numbers. The four corners are 1st and last numbers of top and bottom rows.
3. Top line. The ticket that is first to have all the 5 numbers of the top horizontal line as called numbers.
4. Middle line. The ticket that is first to have all the 5 numbers of the middle horizontal line as called numbers.
5. Bottom line. The ticket that is first to have all the 5 numbers of the bottom horizontal line as called numbers.
6. Full house. The ticket that is first to have all the 15 numbers as called numbers.
Claiming the Winning Combination
As soon as, you have marked of the numbers of a winning combination on your ticket, press the Claim button before the next number is called. On the new screen that appears, select the winning combination or combinations that you are claiming. If the winning combination claimed by you is correct, you will get the winning amount. If the claim is incorrect, your ticket will be declared Bogey.
In Tambola it is very important to claim the winning combination immediately before the next number is called by the dealer. If a player hesitates or delays the claim and the next number is called, the claim is considered invalid or bogey. When there is a bogey, the ticket is cancelled.
Multiple Claims
We want to give everyone a chance to win something in the game. Keeping that in mind, we offer multiple claims in our game. In other words, in games with a large number of players, there can be multiple claims made on a victory condition. For example, if someone claimed a top line, someone else can also make a top line claim.
Each condition has a different coloured tab. Whenever a player makes a claim, the respective claim tab will pop-up from the bottom of the screen and reward the player. This tab shows the claim, and the counter shows how many claims of that particular condition are left.
