Some bingo halls still use regular wooden boards, while other halls use electronic computers that find the numbers for the player. Most halls, however, have converted to using paper boards.

Rich Wood, bingo chairman at VFW, said that about 70 people attend each Thursday and proceeds benefit the Post. ... [Bingo’s] a game of chance but it’s fun. ...

Recently I spent some time with my 90-year-old mother playing — you guessed it — bingo at her long-term care facility in Winona. And I thought, as I sat with her, why not do a column on this ...