TOMBALA TRADITIONAL NEW YEAR GAME

 

• Sell Tambola Tickets at a fixed or mutually-agreed-upon price to everyone who wants to play.
• With the ticket(s), hand out a pen/pencil/toothpick to the players to strike the called Numbers/CUEs in their tickets.
• Decide the cash-prizes for the decided winning points. Winning points can be like:
• Early 5: the ticket with first five struck numbers
• First Row/Top Row: the ticket with all numbers struck in a top row first
• Second Row/Middle Row: the ticket with all numbers struck in a middle row first
• Third Row/Bottom Row: the ticket with all numbers struck in a bottom row first
• Corners: the ticket with all 4 corner numbers struck first (1st and last numbers of top and bottom rows)
• Corner with Star: the ticket with all 4 corner & centre-most numbers struck first (1st and last numbers of top and bottom rows along with a centre-most number of the middle row)
• Full House/First House: the ticket with all its numbers struck first
• Second House: the ticket with all its numbers struck second
  and so on…

• As we know by now that there are 90 numbers in Tambola Game and each ticket has 15 numbers. So, 6 tickets has 15*6 = 90 numbers. In all these 6 tickets, each number from 1-90 occurs once only so covering all 90 numbers. Therefore, when a CUE is called, it will be present in one and only one ticket from the set of 6 tickets.
• There are 3 rows and 9 columns in every Tambola Ticket
• There are a total of 90 (1-90) numbers in Tambola
• There are 3 rows and 9 columns in every Tambola Ticket
• Every ticket has exactly 15 numbers
• Every row contains 5 numbers
• A column may have 1, 2 or 3 numbers. There should be at least 1 number in every column
• A Ticket cannot have the same number more than once
• Column 1 on any ticket has numbers between 1-9
• Column 2 on any ticket has numbers between 10-19
• Column 3 on any ticket has numbers between 20-29
• Column 4 on any ticket has numbers between 30-39
• Column 5 on any ticket has numbers between 40-49
• Column 6 on any ticket has numbers between 50-59
• Column 7 on any ticket has numbers between 60-69
• Column 8 on any ticket has numbers between 70-79
• Column 9 on any ticket has numbers between 80-90

Some popular phrases to use while calling out Numbers

1 – First on the board, no. 1; lone ranger no. 1; Buttered scone; Top of the house no. 1
2 – Kaala dhan (number “do”); one little duck no. 2
3 – Happy family; goodness me no. 3
4 – Hum doh humare “do”; 2+2=4; Murgi chor
5 – Punjab mail no. 5, Come for a drive at no. 5
6 – Bottom heavy, In a fix no. 6; supper sixer
7 – Lucky no. seven, Colours of the rainbow, days in a week; saat sur
8 – Big fat lady/major no. 8
9 – Doctor’s time no. 9
10 – A big fat hen no. 10; uncle Ben
11 – Beautiful legs; sexy legs
12 – One dozen
13 – Unlucky for some no. 13, Baker’s Dozen no. 13
14 – Valentine’s Day; Tender chick, age is 14
15 – Yet to be kissed, age is 15
16 – Never been kissed, Sweet sixteen
17 – Not so sweet, often been kissed, Dancing Queen
18 – Now you can vote, marriageable age no. 18
19 – Goodbye teens at no. 19

20_  Blind 20; one score
21 – Watch your son at 21, Women’s age never crosses 21; President’s salute
22 – Two little ducks; All twos no. 22
23 – You and me is 23
24 – Two dozen
25 – Wish to have a wife at 25, Silver Jubilee (25)
26 – Republic Day
27 – Gateway to heaven no. 27
28 – Not so late at 28; Duck and its mate
29 – In your prime, Gin and lime 29
30 – Women get flirty at 30; Flirty thirty
31 – Flavours at Baskin Robins
32 – 32, Mouth’s Full
33 – Lovely lips, All the 3s, Knocking knees 33
34 – Dil mange more at 34
35 – Flirty wife 35
36 – Perfect vital stats 36, standard size 36, three dozen
37 – Mixed luck
38 – Oversize
39 – Watch your waistline
40 – Naughty 40
41 – Life begins at 41
43 – Down on your knees 43
44 – Chor & chor, All the fours
45 – Halfway there
46 – Up to tricks at 46
47 – Year of Independence
49 – Rise and shine at 49
50 – Half a century, Golden Jubilee (50)
51 – Charity begins at 51
52 – Weeks in a year; Pack of cards
53 – Pack with a joker
54 – Time for more
55 – Nagging wife, All the fives
56 – Pick up sticks
60 – Diamond Jubilee (60)
66 – Clickety Click
69 – Ulta Pulta, Any way round
72 – Lucky couple, lucky two
74 – Lucky chor 74
77 – Hum “saat” “saat” (Hindi) hain, luck-a-luck, double hockey sticks, two little crutches
78 – Lucky “seth” (Hindi) 78
79 – One more time, lucky nine
82 – Last of the two 82; Fat lady with a duck
83 – India won Cricket World Cup
84 – Last of the chors
87 – Last of luck, fat lady with a crutch
88 – Two fat ladies
89 – Nearly there; All but one
90 – Top of the house, no. 90!