Instant Bingo

Instant Bingo

INSTANT BINGO was a promotional game issued by Texaco, Inc. in 1966. This was a collect-and-win game with instant winners. With each visit to a participating Texaco gas station, customers received a paper game piece. The game pieces have two perforated tabs which, when removed, allows the tri-fold game piece to be unfolded.

This is a typical matching halves game. Printed in each game piece is one-half of a 'Bingo' game board of a specific dollar value. The objective is to collect game pieces and try to match two halves of a Bingo game board of the same dollar value, in which case the player won that amount. Some game pieces are 'INSTANT WINNERS.'

There were seven cash prizes available, $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 and $1,000.

Instant Bingo was produced for Texaco by Paul W. Wehrle & Associates, Inc. in California. Amusingly, 'Instant Bingo' doesn't have any of the elements of a traditional bingo game. It is simply a match-halves type of game.

Instant Bingo

Above: The front and back of an unfolded 'INSTANT BINGO' game piece. This is the left half (common half) of the $1 'Bingo' game board.

Instant Bingo

Above: This is the left half (common half) of the $5 'Bingo' game board. The unfolded game pieces measure 2.5" wide by 7.5" long.

Instant Bingo

Above: Newspaper ad for Instant Bingo in The Bridgeport Post (Bridgeport, Connecticut), 9/2/1966.

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