Bling & Bangles Tambola Tickets

Bling and bangles tambola is a jewelry-box game: the ticket holds a haar, a ring, diamonds, gold coins and a maang tikka, and six prizes from Sparkle Five to the Jewellery Queen full house. The page below has the free printable pack, the live online game, a prize ladder, a planner for 10 to 30 guests and a run sheet.

Open the jewelry box

Every Indian family has that one steel almirah drawer or velvet box where the good jewelry lives. Bling & Bangles Tambola is built around it. The ticket has a soft scalloped edge, the title “Bling & Bangles”, and a medallion marked “Jewellery Box”. Its fifteen numbers are split into five sparkling picture sections, three numbers in each:

• Haar: a long necklace, the centerpiece of any bridal set.
• Angoothi: a ring, the star of every engagement.
• Heere: diamonds, glittering on their own.
• Sone Ke Sikke: gold coins, the kind families buy on auspicious days.
• Maang Tikka: the forehead ornament that sits on the parting of the hair.

Players who have never heard “angoothi” before will learn it by the second round, and the aunties will happily explain the rest. As with every set on the site, six tickets together use each number from 1 to 90 once, so a group of six never doubles up.

Ready-to-print Bling & Bangles Tambola pack

12 different picture tickets (2 on each A4 page) with a caller sheet, a prize sheet and a rules page. Print it as it is, or press Create your tambola ticket above for more tickets and your own party name.

Download the free PDF

How each prize is won

The prizes mix single pictures with pairs, which keeps claims coming throughout the game. Here is what each one asks for.

• Sparkle Five: the opening prize, won with any five numbers on the ticket.
• Sparkle Set: Haar and Angoothi both complete, six numbers in all, just like a matching necklace and ring.
• Diamond Diva: the three numbers in Heere.
• Gold Rush: the three numbers in Sone Ke Sikke.
• Rani Haar: Haar and Maang Tikka together, six numbers, the full queenly look.
• Jewellery Queen Full House: the whole ticket, all fifteen numbers.

Notice that Haar appears in two prizes. A player chasing the necklace has two chances to win from it, which makes that section the most watched on the ticket. Tell players this at the start and see who spots it first.

When to play jewelry theme tambola

This jewelry theme tambola fits several occasions. It is a natural pick for a ladies’ evening during the Diwali week, especially around Dhanteras, the first day of Diwali, when many families buy gold or silver. It also works at a bride’s kitty farewell, a jewelry store’s customer event, a mother’s or grandmother’s birthday, or a Teej or Karwa Chauth gathering where everyone is already dressed up.

Timing

Start after the evening tea, around six or seven, when guests have settled. Allow about forty five minutes for a full game with all six prizes. If dinner is late, play a second quick round for just Sparkle Five and the Full House.

Dress code

• “Wear your heaviest piece”: one statement item each, from your nani’s (maternal grandmother’s) necklace to a costume cuff.
• Bangles only: everyone wears a stack of bangles, so the clink of hands going up for a claim becomes part of the game.
• Gold and white color theme for clothes, with diamonds optional.

Prize ideas that suit the theme

• A set of glass bangles for Sparkle Five.
• Fashion earrings and a ring for Sparkle Set.
• A silver coin or a small silver-plated item for Gold Rush.
• A sparkly hair clip or a costume maang tikka for Rani Haar.
• A velvet jewelry organizer or a voucher for the Jewellery Queen Full House.

Seating

Keep players close together, on floor mattresses with bolsters or around a dining table, because half the fun is admiring each other’s jewelry between calls. Put the caller where everyone can see her, and keep a small tray to collect winning tickets for checking.

Play Bling & Bangles online

If the family is spread across cities, skip the printer and host the game on phones. You create the game, send the link, and each guest gets a ticket on screen. From there the caller takes over, announcing numbers on a timer with an optional voice, while every ticket marks its own numbers. When someone shouts Bingo, the claim pops up on the host screen for checking. Put the TV view on a big screen and family in the room can scan the QR code shown there to join.

Make it sparkle when you print

Print in color on glossy or slightly heavy paper and the jewelry pictures look their best. For a big community event, the black and white option keeps costs down, and guests can color in the gold coins with a yellow marker as their numbers come. Choose one ticket per page if you want a keepsake, or four per page for a large crowd.

A small twist: the “Locker Prize”. Write one number on a slip and seal it in an envelope labeled “locker”. When the Full House is won, open it. If the winner’s ticket has that number, they get a bonus gift. It adds one last moment of suspense.

Want more? The fashion and jewelry bingo cards are a simpler grid version of this idea. Ladies’ groups also love the Kitty Queen tambola, and wedding families can try Ladke Wale vs Ladki Wale tambola. All designs are on the theme tambola page.

Jewellery theme tambola: why this theme works

Jewellery is part of many Indian celebrations, from a Dhanteras evening to a sangeet, so a jewelry theme suits more than one party. The five pictures are a necklace (haar), a ring (angoothi), a sparkling diamond (heere), gold coins (sone ke sikke) and a maang tikka, the ornament worn at the parting of the hair.

Winners earn names like Sparkle Set and Rani Haar, which makes the prize announcement sound like part of the party. It works well for a bangle ceremony, a festive kitty, a jewelry brand’s ladies’ evening or a Dhanteras get-together with family.

Here is how jewellery theme tambola fits a ladies evening: the pictures need no explanation, the prizes give the host lines to announce, and the whole game fits comfortably around the other events of the day.

How to play bling and bangles tambola step by step

The rules of bling and bangles tambola are the rules of ordinary tambola, with pictures instead of rows. Here is the whole game in six steps, using the prize names printed on the sheet:

1. Hand out the tickets. Give each player one ticket and read the prize list aloud, starting with Sparkle Five and ending with Jewellery Queen Full House.
2. Call the numbers. The host calls numbers from 1 to 90 in random order, or lets the online game call them.
3. Mark your pictures. Each player strikes off the numbers on their ticket, and each picture holds three of them.
4. Claim a prize. The first player to complete a pattern shouts the prize name, such as “Sparkle Set!”, before the next number is called.
5. Check the claim. The host reads the numbers back against the caller sheet. A wrong claim loses that ticket the prize.
6. Finish with the full house. The game ends when a player marks all fifteen numbers and wins Jewellery Queen Full House.

New players learn bling and bangles tambola in about two minutes, because the pictures show them what to look for. If the group has never played tambola, our guide on how to play tambola explains the classic version.

Bling and bangles tambola: the prize ladder in numbers

Every prize in bling and bangles tambola needs a different number of marked numbers, so the prizes arrive in a predictable order. We simulated 3,000 games with 24 tickets, which is 4 sets of six, and recorded the call on which each prize was first completed. The table shows the median, with the middle half of games alongside:

With 24 tickets the first five arrives on about call 13, and the full house on about call 73, so the whole ladder runs over 60 calls, or about 10 minutes at 10 seconds a call. A one-picture prize arrives around call 29, and a two-picture prize around call 51, so most of the excitement happens in the middle of the game. When you plan bling and bangles tambola, announce the prizes in the order they are likely to be won, and keep the biggest for last.

Dhanteras tambola: how many to print and how long a game lasts

This planner answers the question behind dhanteras tambola: how many to print and how long the game lasts. For a ladies evening, the right number of tickets depends on how many guests want to play. This planner rounds up to whole sets of six and uses the same simulation as above for each size of group. One ticket for each player is the usual choice, and you can print a few spares for latecomers:

For 10 guests, print 12 tickets (2 sets of six) and expect the full house around call 76, which is about 12.7 minutes of calling. For 30 guests you need 30 tickets and the full house arrives around call 72.

The bigger the group, the earlier each prize is won, because more tickets are in play: the first five comes on call 14 with 10 guests but on call 12 with 30. That is why bling and bangles tambola stays quick even at a large ladies evening, and why it suits a short slot in the program.

What one ticket looks like during bling and bangles tambola

A ticket holds 15 of the 90 numbers, which is one sixth of them, so on average it has one sixth of the numbers called so far marked. By call 30 a typical ticket has 5 of its 15 numbers marked:

That is the average ticket, though. With 24 tickets in play, the best ticket reaches five marked numbers on call 13, and the best ticket completes all fifteen on call 73, long before an average ticket does. This gap between the average and the best ticket explains why the prizes in bling and bangles tambola are won so much earlier than the table above suggests.

A ready-made run sheet for bling and bangles tambola

Here is a run sheet for bling and bangles tambola that fits 75 minutes. The times are suggestions; stretch the snack break or shorten a round to suit your ladies evening.

The tambola rounds take 45 of the 75 minutes, which leaves room for food, photos and conversation. If you only have half the time, play one round and keep bling and bangles tambola for the full house, since the biggest prize makes the best ending.

Prize ideas for bling and bangles tambola: a gift for every pattern

Match the gift to the pattern: small gifts for the quick prizes and the best gift for the full house. These ideas fit a ladies evening:

Decor and dress ideas to go with the prizes:

• A jewelry box as the prize table
• Gold and maroon table runners
• Dress code: wear your favorite earrings
• Fairy lights behind the caller

Keep the prizes simple, wrap them in the theme colors and put them on a table where everyone can see them before the first call. A prize table in view keeps interest high all through bling and bangles tambola.

Three twists to try with bling and bangles tambola

A small twist makes the game feel planned. Pick one, or use all three across the rounds of bling and bangles tambola, and bling and bangles tambola stays quick whichever you choose.

Bangle sound game

Blindfold a guest and let her match a bangle sound to the right bangle.

Jewellery cheat sheet

Call numbers using jewelry rhymes so each number sounds like a piece of jewelry.

Gold coin hunt

Hide chocolate coins in the room; the winner of Gold Rush has two minutes to find three.

If you like bling and bangles tambola, you may also enjoy Queens Handbag Tambola, Kitty Queen Tambola, Chai Chaat Chatter Tambola, or browse the whole theme tambola collection.