A couple of general comments for your enlightenment.

• When posting code, delete the stuff that's commented out.
• Look up 'heredocs' for chunks of text that flow over multiple lines.
• Whenever you find yourself repeating code, think about how it could be made into a loop.
• On a grander scale, think about how you could have modelled a BINGO card (of which, more later).
• There's a reason good code is indented regularly -- it makes it more readable. Your code is not particularly readable, partially because it's not regularly indented

Modelling a BINGO card

Well. A BINGO card is basically five columns with B-I-N-G-O across the top, and columns of numbers, choose five randomly from 1-15 under B, and so forth to 61-75 under O.

Once you know that, lots of the code you've got here can be vastly simplified. You could call a module to set the values of each card, then print out the artwork for each card. The main line program would be a dozen lines long.

Anyway, good work posting this code -- read all of the replies carefully, you should learn a great deal, as I have for the four years that I've been here. Good luck.

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