Re your comment: "the rest of the class comes close to winning (this is the diabolically brilliant thing about bingo)" Study this month confirms this and goes

Re your comment: "the rest of the class comes close to winning (this is the diabolically brilliant thing about bingo)" Study this month confirms this and goes further: "near misses were most rewarding for the pathological gamblers, who experienced them as being almost as rewarding as a win." http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357991 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357991