Tambola, without the chits.
One host calls from a phone. Everyone else plays on theirs. Nothing to print, nothing to tick off by hand, nobody arguing over a claim.
A family entertainment game — not for gambling. Free to play. No app store, no sign-up — it opens in the browser and installs to the home screen if you want it there.
Why people switch to it
Everything that usually goes wrong at a tambola table — miscounted tickets, disputed claims, someone losing their pen — handled.
Real tickets, generated properly
Standard housie: three rows, nine columns, fifteen numbers. Issued in strips of six so every strip covers 1–90 exactly once — the thing that makes a game feel fair at a table. Tickets are made and stored on the server; a phone never makes its own.
Claims settle themselves
Every claim is checked against the numbers actually called. A mis-tap can't cost anyone a prize and a phone can't award one. A wrong claim is a bogey and locks that ticket out of that prize only — or turn on Beginner Mode and the button appears only when the claim would stand.
The order is fixed before the first call
All ninety numbers are decided at kickoff from a random seed, and calling just moves a pointer. The fingerprint is published at the start and the seed revealed at the end, so anyone can rebuild the order and check it. Nobody, host included, can steer what comes next.
It survives a dead battery
The game lives on the server, not on the host's phone. Reload and everything is exactly where it was — the same numbers called, the same prizes gone.
Built for the people actually playing
Bigger numbers, high-contrast tickets, numbers read aloud at a speed you choose, auto-marking for anyone who'd rather just watch. Traditional call-outs in Roman Urdu and English — do bathakein, do mote, poora nabbe.
Points or amounts, your choice
Set the room to score in points and no money is mentioned anywhere — prizes read as “500 pts” and the whole thing is purely a game. Switch it to amounts and the same numbers carry a currency instead. Nothing else changes; the app collects nothing and pays out nothing either way.
ZAZ sets the evening up
Tell it how many are coming and what a ticket costs. ZAZ picks the prize list, splits the pot sensibly, and writes the WhatsApp message announcing the winners when it's over.
Pricing
Play on our site
Hosted here on zaztekinternational.com. Fine for family games.
- Unlimited players in a room
- All 16 prizes
- Big screen for a TV or laptop
- Rooms clear after a week
Licence it for your event or venue
One-off, not a subscription. Built, installed and supported by ZAZTEK International.
- Full source, PHP and MySQL, no monthly fee
- Your logo, colours and prize names
- Custom prize rules built to your format
- Runs on ordinary shared hosting
- One year of support and updates
Pay by bank transfer, Easypaisa or JazzCash.
Pay by bank transfer or PayPal.
Order or enquire →ZAZTEK Tambola Live is made for family and social entertainment. It is not a gambling product. It takes no payments, holds no money, processes no wagers and pays out nothing. Rooms can be scored entirely in points, with no money mentioned anywhere. Where a host chooses to track contributions among their own guests, that is a private arrangement entirely outside this software, and it is the host's responsibility to stay within the laws that apply to them. Gambling is prohibited in Pakistan and restricted in many other countries.
Get everyone playing in about a minute
Open a room, share the code, start calling. Works on any phone with a browser.
Runs on PHP 8 and MySQL on ordinary shared hosting. No websockets, no Node, no build step — players poll a small static file, so thirty phones in a room cost the server almost nothing.