Can someone explain the difference between keno and bingo?

[ulrichburke]

Dear Anyone.

Joined the site to ask this.  Never heard of keno before seeing it on a Vegas stream on YouTube. It LOOKS the same as bingo, but the computer does all the work for you, am I right? So you've got your cards and the computer chooses random numbers and if the numbers hit those on the cards, you win (assuming it's a line of numbers or whatever.) 

Does the computer choose the initial card numbers? Because surely if it was choosing the initial numbers the card's born with - in other words before the 'bingo game' starts - it would just pick the ones it's not going to actually give out when it starts drawing numbers, wouldn't it? So you'd never win because the computer would know what numbers it's going to draw and just not put those on the card. 

That's the bit I joined to ask.  Is there ANY actual participation from the player? I mean on a Vegas slot, at least you're influencing the spin a LEETLE bit because all the random numbers are generated when you press the start button - OK I know that's not really doing anything and it's a microscopic change in timing and all that stuff but it's still a LEETLE influence.  If Keno's picking the bingo numbers AND pickng the balls it's drawing, it's like the dealer in Blackjack being able to choose his hand by turning the cards face up, THEN dealing the cards to the players, no? 

Yours puzzledly

Chris.

 

[dupeddonk]

They look similar at first, but there are a bunch of difference that make them very different games.

In Keno, the player chooses how many and which numbers, as well as the risk level, and then waits for the result.

In Bingo, the player interaction involves keeping track of the numbers, marking them down, and yelling bingo when they fill in the required pattern.

 

 

 

With keno the 'card' is always the same, 40 numbers 1-40, in order. (At least on stake.  You'll often find 80 ball bingo in land based casinos and some other sites, same idea though)

The player chooses between 1 and 10 numbers, and also chooses low, med, or high risk.

The game selects exactly 10 numbers.  You get paid based on how many of those 10 numbers match the numbers you picked.

 

With Bingo, you get a card with 25 numbers randomly picked (usually from 1-75).  Traditionally, it's a room full of players playing against each other and they draw numbers until one person makes a bingo by hitting a combination of numbers that matches a pattern.  But you'll find plenty of more keno-like versions online where there are a bunch of patterns with different prizes for each one.  Usually filling out the entire card pays the highest and if you do it in a certain number of draws there's a jackpot.