Tambola Ticket Generator — free, printable
Real housie tickets in full strips of six. Pick how many, print, play. No sign-up, no watermark.
Generating…
Set — the address bar now carries this set, so the same link prints the same tickets again. “Download PDF” opens the print dialog; choose Save as PDF as the printer.
Two tickets per row on A4 or Letter, black on white. Each ticket carries its ID (strip code + position), so a winner can read it out and you can find it on your master copy. Cut along the ticket edges; the 12 shaded cells are blanks, not misprints.
Now call the numbers
Print the tickets here, then let the app draw and announce numbers 1–90 from your phone — or host from your laptop in the browser with the board on a TV. Paper mode needs no account and works offline.
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Or host from a browser, with no install →
Interface and caller voices are in English today.
Tambola ticket FAQ
What is a tambola ticket?
A tambola (housie) ticket is a grid of 3 rows and 9 columns — 27 cells — of which only 15 hold numbers and 12 are blank. Each column covers one band of numbers: column 1 holds 1–9, column 2 holds 10–19, and so on up to 80–90 in the last column. Numbers inside a column run in ascending order from top to bottom. Tickets come in strips of six; across one strip every number from 1 to 90 appears exactly once, which is why six players holding one strip never share a number.
How many numbers are on a tambola ticket?
Fifteen. Every row has exactly five numbers and four blanks, so a full ticket is three rows of five. A full strip of six tickets holds all 90 numbers. The generator above follows those rules exactly — the same generator the Tambola Night app uses to deal digital tickets — so every printed ticket is a legal one.
How do you play tambola with these tickets?
Give each player one or more tickets. A caller draws numbers from 1 to 90 in random order and announces them; players strike off any called number on their ticket. Prizes (called dividends) go to the first player to complete a pattern: Early Five (any five numbers), Top, Middle or Bottom Line (all five in that row), Four Corners and Full House (all fifteen). A claim is checked against the numbers actually called; a wrong claim is a bogey and the game carries on. Full rules and pictures are on the how-to-play page.