Official language: English
Population: 4,291,900
Currency: New Zealand Dollar (NZD)

Current Exchange Rate
1 EUR = 2.0098 NZD
1 GBP = 2.1468 NZD
1 USD = 1.3576 NZD

Bingo in New Zealand
In New Zealand bingo is known as Housie. Like bingo games in UK and Australia, New Zealand bingo games are played on a rectangular playing card. The game uses 90 balls instead of the 75-ball games played in other countries. One Line, Two Line, and Full House games are common. A bonus game called Super Housie is also played, where three lines can be claimed – top, middle, and bottom – resulting in huge prizes.

Housie or bingo games in New Zealand are played for cash in large halls. Usually bingo halls are purpose-built, but sometimes school or church groups will lease rooms from community centers to run bingo or Housie games as fundraisers. The game is very social and commercial games often have charity involvement, where a portion of the proceeds are given to various charity organizations and causes. In purely commercial games, 90% of all profits is paid out as prizes, leaving just 10% to cover operational costs.

Online Bingo in New Zealand
Online bingo in New Zealand is also popular. Unfortunately, there are no native New Zealand companies offering bingo or Housie games on the internet. This is not because there is a lack of interest in the game, but because the government of New Zealand does not offer licenses that would allow these companies to offer their bingo services online.

Instead, all New Zealand internet bingo is played on foreign websites that are run and hosted out of other countries. There are hundreds of these bingo halls online, and nearly all of them are in English, giving players from New Zealand plenty of choices. Not all of them accept New Zealanders, but most do, so there are always plenty of online bingo rooms where players can play online bingo games.