Bingo bango bongo golf: first on the green, closest, first in the hole

Bingo bango bongo spends three points on every hole of golf. Bingo is the first ball that comes to rest on the putting green. Bango is the ball closest to the hole after every ball still in play is on that green. Bongo is the first ball into the cup. One player can take all three. One player can make the lowest score on the hole and take none.

Eighteen holes put 54 points in the game, because 18 times 3 is 54. Nine holes would be 27. The points are the whole result. You can keep a stroke total for pride. The bet does not use it.

This is the outdoor game. The words are a scoring nickname for those three moments. They are not a call in a bingo hall, and they are not a card you dab with a marker. You need a tee, a green, and an order of play.

The money comes from the other players. PvP gambling is the wider label. Sports betting on this site is a set of guides. The other course games here are wolf, skins, a Nassau, and side bets. It does not score a green. Adults 18+. The page teaches one card. It is not a tip and not legal advice.

The worked price is $1 per point of difference between each pair of players. A pot you all ante is a different settlement, shown later so the two are not mixed up in the parking lot.

The player farthest from the hole plays. That rule is the game. Bingo and bongo are races, so a ball played out of turn can steal them. On this card, a point taken out of turn is given to the next player who does the same thing in proper order. If you are unsure who is away, measure before anyone swings.

On the tee, honors go to the low score on the previous hole. Hole 1 needs an agreed order. This card tees Ana, Ben, Cal, Dee on the first hole, and then honors take over. Honors matter most on par 3s, because the first tee shot can be on the green before anyone else has a bingo chance.

Being on the green does not let you putt out while others are still on the tee. They are farther from the hole than you are. They hit next. You mark. That is why "first on" and "first in" are hard to hold together. The player who is closest, and who may already own bango, putts last.

Gimmies are off. A two-foot putt is still a putt. If you pick it up, you did not hole out, and someone else can take bongo. Pace of play will feel slower. The group that wants gimmies wants a different game, usually "low score gets the third point." That variant is described later. It is not this card.

Peer to peer sports betting fails in the same way when the grade is sloppy. Here the grade is a ball at rest, a distance, and a ball in the cup, in the right order.

On a par 3 the first player on the green takes bingo with one shot. They do not then hole out for bongo while the others wait on the tee. The others are away. After everyone has hit, bango is still not decided if anyone missed the green. Bango waits until the last ball is on.

A chip can steal bango. Ana is twelve feet away, which would have been closest, and Cal is in the fringe. Cal's chip finishes inside Ana. Cal takes bango. Giving the point when the first approach stops is a different rule, and it deletes the chip. This card waits.

A ball holed from off the green can take bongo. It does not take bingo, because it never rested on the green. This card's bango is among balls on the surface once everyone still in play is on. The example never holes one from off the green.

A tie for bango splits the point into halves. This card has no tie, so all 54 points are whole points awarded to one name. If you hate halves, write "the player who was on the green first takes a tied bango" before the round.

Hole 3 is the par 3 that shows the order. Ana has honors, hits the green first, and takes bingo. Ben, Cal, and Dee are still on the tee, so they hit before she putts. When all four are on, Ana's ball is closest. That is bango. She is not away, so she putts last. The others miss. She holes. That is bongo. All three points, and she still waited her turn.

Betting with friends online is easier when the three names are written before the group walks to the next tee. Bingo, bango, bongo, three marks. Then leave.

Each cell is the player who took that point. The letters are Ana, Ben, Cal, and Dee.

Count the letters. Ana appears 18 times: two, one, three, one, one, one, one, one, two, one, one, two, and one. Ben appears 14 times. Cal appears 13 times. Dee appears 9 times. Eighteen plus 14 plus 13 plus 9 is 54.

At $1 for each point of difference, every pair settles once. Ana's 18 against Ben's 14 is $4 from Ben to Ana. Ana against Cal's 13 is $5. Ana against Dee's 9 is $9. Ben against Cal is $1. Ben against Dee is $5. Cal against Dee is $4.

Ana receives $4 plus $5 plus $9, which is $18, and pays nothing. Ben receives $1 plus $5, which is $6, and pays Ana $4, so Ben is up $2. Cal receives $4 from Dee and pays $5 plus $1, which is $6, so Cal is down $2. Dee pays $9 plus $5 plus $4, which is $18. Up $18, up $2, down $2, and down $18 sum to zero.

The cash that changes hands is $4 plus $5 plus $9 plus $1 plus $5 plus $4, which is $28. That is the pairwise game. It is larger than "a dollar a point" sounds, because every pair pays the gap, and 54 points of gaps are not the same thing as a 54-dollar pot.

Bingo bango bongo turns etiquette into the bet. Agree the lines or the points will be called twice.

• The price. This card is $1 per point of difference between each pair, not $1 from a shared pot.
• Away plays. Out of turn loses the point to the next legal player.
• Honors from the previous low score. Hole 1 order is written down.
• No gimmies. The ball has to go in the hole.
• Bango only after every ball still in play is on the green. Chips count.
• A bango tie splits the point. This example has none.
• Who marks the three names before leaving the green.
• A ceiling. Dee is down $18 at $1. At $5 a point the same gaps are $90. Multiply before you agree.
• The ceiling sits in a gambling budget chosen before the round.
• Adults 18+. Responsible gambling applies to a points game with friends. The scoring nickname does not make the cash smaller.

A new price shouted on the 10th tee is a new bet. The first 27 points were already played at the old one.

Groups change the three points when the same player reaches every green first. One variant gives bingo to the longest tee shot that finishes in the fairway, instead of first on the green. That helps a shorter hitter only if they find the short grass. It is a different race.

Another variant gives bongo to the low score on the hole, instead of the first ball in the cup. Gimmies can come back, because the cup is no longer the test. You are then paying the score, and the order-of-putting drama is gone.

A third variant gives bingo to the player who reaches the green in the fewest strokes, not the player who gets there first in time. A lay-up that is on the green in three can lose to a shot that is on in two, even if the two-shot player arrived later. Say "fewest strokes" if that is what you mean. This card says "first to come to rest on the green."

Any of those can be a good game. None of them match the 54-point table above. If you switch definitions at the turn, you cannot use these totals.

A 50-50 raffle awards a draw. These points award a ball. Do not break a tied bango by pulling a tee from a pocket unless the checklist already says so. The checklist says split the point.

The pairwise card has no house. Dee's $18 and Cal's $2 reach Ana and Ben. Nobody skims the $28 that changes hands.

Two settlements get called "$1 a point." This example is the pairwise gaps, and $28 moved. Five percent of $28 is $1.40. The other settlement is an ante. Fifty-four points at $1 is a $54 pot, $13.50 from each player. Ana would take $18, Ben $14, Cal $13, and Dee $9, for nets of up $4.50, up $0.50, down $0.50, and down $4.50. That is a gentler game, and it is not the card that was played. Jackpot and Coinflip take 5% of the pot, which is $2.70 of $54. The golfers pay neither fee.

House edge on a pot game is the cut from the pile. Coinflip takes 5% off the pot of a hashed flip. Roulette on this site is a 33-slot house game. The wheel is not keeping a bingo mark.

PVPspinArena does not run bingo bango bongo, does not score a green, and does not pay these 54 points. Adults 18+.