About Tambola Tools

Tambola Tools started with a problem that felt embarrassingly small but kept coming up every festive season: finding a tambola number caller that just worked.

Not one buried behind an app download. Not one that crashed on an older Android. Not one with so many ads that calling numbers became a second-screen sport. Just a clean, fast caller that anyone in the room could use — including the uncle who still uses a 2017 phone and the aunty who doesn't trust “computer games.”

So Manish Pamnani, a software developer from Jaipur, built one.

What Tambola Tools Offers

Everything on this site is free and requires no account:

  • Online Tambola Number Caller — calls numbers 1–90 automatically, with traditional housie nicknames included. Works on mobile, tablet, and desktop.
  • Tambola Ticket Generator — creates valid, printable 3×9 housie tickets instantly. Print at home or save as PDF to share on WhatsApp.
  • Themed Ticket Pages — occasion-specific tickets for kitty parties, Diwali, birthdays, and weddings, with both free printable and ready-made physical options.
  • Tambola Guides — plain-language guides on rules, winning patterns, number nicknames, and how to host a game for any group size.

The Story Behind the Site

Tambola has been part of Manish's family for as long as he can remember. Growing up in Jaipur, no Diwali was complete without a long, noisy round after dinner — tokens in a steel bowl, someone's father doing dramatic voices for “two fat ladies” and “legs eleven,” and at least one argument about whether a full house claim was valid.

When he started building tools as a developer, tambola kept coming back as an unsolved problem. The existing callers were clunky or ad-heavy. Printable tickets required obscure downloads or sign-ups. And nothing was built with Indian family gatherings specifically in mind — the large groups, the mixed ages, the WhatsApp-first sharing habits.

Tambola Tools is his attempt to fix that. It is built for the hosts: the kitty party organiser who needs 20 tickets printed in ten minutes, the family member who gets volunteered to “manage the game” every Diwali, the office admin putting together a quick team event on short notice.

A Note on the Guides

The blog at blog.tambola-tools.com covers everything from basic rules to regional variations to prize structures for large groups. Manish writes from personal experience — growing up with the game, hosting rounds for family and friends, and researching the parts of tambola history he didn't already know.

If something is wrong or could be better explained, he genuinely wants to know. The site exists to be useful, and useful means accurate.

Get in Touch / Follow Along

The site is a one-person project, actively maintained and updated.

If you have a suggestion, a correction, or just want to share how your last tambola game went — reach out via Instagram. He reads every message.

Tambola Tools is free to use and always will be.