It's Time for Some Shaadi Masti with These Creative Tambola Ideas for Your Guests!
Before your wedding starts in full swing, you’ll be entertaining guests almost on a nightly basis. Make sure you keep everyone engaged and excited by using these creative tambola ideas to keep the game fresh!
House parties, Kitty parties, reunions, weddings. You name it and one thing that is common to all these events is the game, Tambola! Tambola is one game that is the easiest to play and keeps the players busy in a fun way. It is extremely popular and many families arrange this game during the bridal week to entertain their guests. However, since there are many days of Tambola ahead of you, you need to come up with creative Tambola ideas that will help you to keep your guests entertained for a longer period of time.
Don’t have a clue what to do? Don’t worry! We have come up with a list of creative Tambola ideas is one of the fun ideas you can use to keep your wedding guests entertained ahead of the wedding!
Keep in mind that the regular winning point in Tambola is a full house. However, there are different ways to play with the same playing cards by keeping the winning point different.
1. Pyramid or Reverse Pyramid Tambola
This is a fun take on the usual Tambola game. In this, you have to strike down the numbers in a specific order, i.e. the 1st, 3rd and the 5th number from the top row, then 2nd and 4th on the second row and the 3rd on the last row. This creates a reverse pyramid. You can do the opposite too, starting from the bottom row. This fun take makes it one of the most creative Tambola ideas.
2. One line Tambola
One of the creative Tambola ideas that make the gameplay shorter and faster is to play one line Tambola. Here, you just need to strike off all the numbers in one line to be the winner. It is up to the Tambola caller to decide what line to declare as the winning line for that game. It can be the right corner line or the left corner one, the top one or the bottom one. This change of rules in every round makes the game more engaging. with the players feeling that the game is fair to everyone and not just reliant on luck.
You can come up with innumerable ways to decide the winning points of the Tambola game and make different creative Tambola ideas.
Now let us look at some totally different takes on the game. These may sound a bit crazy but they are totally worth it! The basic premise of these ideas is to use the game in a way that makes it much more than a game about someone announcing a set of numbers and you waiting for it to appear on your Tambola card. Here, you need to be a bit more creative as you have to do more than just changing the points system. The following are some of our takes on making some creative Tambola ideas for you to explore.
3. Bollywood song couple game
This is the combination of two of the most loved things in India, Bollywood and Tambola. The basic rule is to create a list of 6 songs, each representing 15 numbers from the Tambola lot. For example, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani represents the numbers from 1 to 15. With 6 songs, you now have 90 numbers. Each couple gets a bowl full of numbers and a Tambola sheet.
You pick a song from the bowl and in the next 30 seconds, you need to collect as many numbers as you can, represented by the song. The winner would be the one with the most number of numbers on board after 30 seconds.
Now isn’t that one of the greatest creative Tambola ideas you have ever heard?
4. Malamaal Tambola
At a wedding party, everyone wants to have some extra fun in some of the other way. Playing Tambola with money as a reward is a sure-shot way of having some light fun and keeping your guests entertained. You play the game the usual way, but with each round there is a winner. The winner gets a certain amount of money that is collected by all the players. You can assign specific values to the top row, corners and so on.
Once all the rounds are over, the one player with a maximum amount of money wins the match.
5. Jodi Tambola
Jodi Tambola is another one of the creative Tambola ideas that can surely keep your guests entertained. In this idea, the game is quite simple, as it requires just a pair of Tambola tickets and a Jodi/couple. With both having a ticket of their own, one of them announces a number on his/her card and the other one crosses the same number on his/her card. Once all the numbers are announced, the couple with the maximum struck numbers wins the match.
People in India have been playing is game for decades and it is super popular. These variants will help you keep your guests entertained no matter how many times you bust out the Tambola tickets!
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