AI-generated content on this site
Images. Most photographs on this site are real photographs from Wikimedia Commons, credited beneath each with its author and licence; where one was cropped to fit the page, the credit says so. Alongside them, fourteen photorealistic images were generated with an AI image tool: two on the homepage and one on each of the main guide pages. They show everyday bingo scenes, such as a kitchen-table game, an air-blower ball machine or the tea break in a hall. None of them shows a real person or a real venue. Each one carries the mark "AI" on the image itself, the words "AI-generated image" in its caption and in its alternative text, and the file itself carries a machine-readable AI marker. The diagrams of tickets, cards and the odds curve are drawn from the actual rules and data, not generated, and are recognisable as diagrams.
Text. We use AI tools to support research and drafting. Every published text is reviewed by a person for substance and checked for facts before it is published. Editorially responsible: the How to Play Bingo editorial team, [email protected].
What "checked" means here
Checking is not a light read. For the rules pages, it means comparing each statement with the standard rules of UK 90-ball bingo. For the calls, it means that every nickname and origin comes from a compiled dataset of the 90 calls, built from published lists and cross-checked, with each origin marked as documented, traditional or disputed; the pages display that dataset rather than retyping it. For the numbers on our bingo odds page, it means calculating each probability exactly where possible and simulating the rest, rather than accepting a figure because it sounds right. For the history, it means confining claims to what standard accounts support and saying "is said to" where a story is traditional rather than proven.
The tools themselves
The interactive tools, the bingo caller, the ticket generator, the calls trainer and the daily puzzle, are ordinary programs that run in your browser. They do not use AI. The caller draws numbers with your browser's cryptographic random source; the ticket generator follows the fixed construction rules of a UK strip and checks every strip before showing it.
What AI tools were not used for
AI tools did not decide what the rules are, which calls belong to which numbers, or what the odds are. Those come from the standard rules of the game, the compiled calls dataset and exact calculation. Nor were AI tools used to write reviews, recommendations or anything commercial, because the site publishes none. Any wording a tool suggested was treated as a draft to be checked, never as a source.
Photographs and AI images
The site uses no stock photography and no images from photo agencies. The real photographs come from Wikimedia Commons, each credited under the picture with its author and licence, and each is used on one page only. Where a photograph was cropped, the caption says so. The AI-generated images are generic scenes, not records of any real place or event, and each of them is also used on one page only.
Corrections
If you find a mistake, whatever its source, please tell us at [email protected]. Corrections are made by a person and noted on the page. More on how we work is on our about page.