Golden Rules For Playing Bingo! The regulars of any bingo club are renowned for their viciousness when it comes to the rules of the game and will give you a going over if you don’t observe them. The main rule is when a game is on – be quiet, even if you aren’t playing. Rules for Double Anti-Bingo: Each round will be capped at one week, meaning you will have one week to meet up with your opponent and get.

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Bingo: the Bingo prize is won when all the numbers in a particular pattern on the card are marked. Jackpots: they are won when one gets the Bingo prize within a certain number of balls being called. Each ticket costs 1 credit; Every ticket has 3 horizontal rows and 3 vertical columns. Every row has 3 numbers (from 1 to 30). A bingo Card contains 24 numbered spaces and one free space (blank), with which you play BINGO. The numbers are assigned at random on each card and are arranged in five columns of five numbers each by five rows (5 x 5 = 25 in total including the blank square). The numbers in the B column are between 1 and 15, in the I column between 16 and 30.

We think it is safe to assume that everyone knows what Bingo is, and how it is played. Even if you have never heard or played the game, you will not have troubles understanding the concept behind it at all. Bingo offers simple game play that can be enjoyed by everyone, although Bingo in North America is recognized as a game played widely in retiring homes for entertaining the elderly. It is also more of a family game, and it hardly can be called a real gambling game, but a lottery-based game of pure luck.

Bingo is known for offering interesting cash prizes ever since the 16^th century when it was invented in Italy. It was regarded as a very entertaining game that quickly became popular. The game came to America and a wider audience in the 1920s when there were plenty of Italian immigrants that searched for a better life.

Today, a more modern way of playing Bingo is going online. Bingo is offered by most of the casino game makers and can be even found at specialized online Bingo website that offers playing different types of Bingo games for real money. In online Bingo everything is automated and you don’t need to mark the numbers yourself. United Kingdom is said to have particularly big Bingo player base, and it is estimated that nearly three million Brits play Bingo every day.

Bingo Rules

Bingo has basic rules that are extremely simple, which is one of the main aspects why it grew so widely popular.

• You mark your numbers on a ticket with randomly predetermined combination of numbers.
• When the numbers are drawn they are marked by the players if the number appears in their tickets.
• The smallest cash prize usually is when you complete a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line of numbers. Different Bingo variations may include different patterns.
• The biggest Bingo prize is usually when all of the numbers on your ticket have been drawn and crossed out.
• Bingo tickets usually follow two formats, a 90 ball format and a 75 ball format. The 90 ball Bingo game is usually played in the UK and is played with a ticket that has numbers arranged in a 9 x 3 grid. The 75 ball Bingo is usually played in the US and is played with a ticket that has numbers arranged in a grid of 5 columns and 5 rows of numbers.
• The numbers are drawn at random.
• Each ticket contains a total of 15 to 25 numbers, depending on the Bingo game.
• If you decide to play real-life Bingo in bingo halls, usually you have to yell “bingo!” before the next number is announced. If you don’t call bingo and the game has finished, your ticket will become worthless.

The Basics of Bingo

RULES AND REGULATIONS RESPECTING BINGO GAMING June 2013 Page 2 of 11 matching the predetermined pattern (which without limiting the generality of the foregoing includes a single square, a blackout or an exact match of a specific set of bingo numbers) on a bingo card or bingo ticket and the winner.

Objective of the Game

There is a pretty simple objective in Bingo, and that is to be the first Bingo player that has crossed all of the numbers in his ticket, but only if they were previously drawn or called. The bingo ticket has a random pattern of numbers. If you are playing Bingo with a real paper ticket, and that ticket has a serial number, that means the pattern will never appear again with another bingo ticket. Each number is drawn randomly, which makes the objective dependent on how lucky you are.

Online Bingo

Online Bingo can be either played at Bingo websites where you will be offered lots different Bingo variations designed with various themes or at online casinos as part of the games offering or via a separate Bingo room. Online Bingo can be very different compared to real-life Bingo, and can be much more fast paced. In online Bingo you can speed up the game, or play many tickets for less money. The game is completely automated and the only command you will use is the button to start the drawing. Online Bingo is definitely a more fun way of playing the game, because Bingo sites or rooms tend to arrange interesting promotions and to give special Bingo bonuses in order to attract players. Playing Bingo at specialized Bingo rooms or sites may include a schedule, so make sure to be online at the right time, or the draw will begin anyway, since it is played by other players too at the same moment. If you play online Bingo as part of a casino game offering, then you play only with the computer.

Real Life Bingo

Playing Bingo in some hall or specialized Bingo location brings special conduct rules and etiquette. Also, real life Bingo follows a more classic Bingo game play, and don’t expect to find the variety and entertainment that you can find by playing online bingo. Real life Bingo is not played only in Bingo halls. In some countries Bingo is a televised show with a host or a hostess and is broadcasted across the entire network.

So, if you are in a Bingo hall with your Bingo ticket in front of you, you have to make sure to be quite. This is very important because you might get thrown out at the worst case. If you have a bingo make sure to call the word “bingo” loud and clear, because your win will not be recognized if the announcer has called the next number. Depending on the regulations where you play, you may be required to submit an ID before being able to pick your Bingo cash prize.

Electronic Bingo

Another way of playing Bingo, usually at land-based casinos, is by using touch-screen device that will act as you ticket. These devices are provided by the house. Playing multiple tickets is way more convenient with electronic Bingo than with using multiple paper tickets. When a number has been called that one of your electronic tickets has, the device automatically searches all of your playing tickets and marks the number across all of them.

Bingo Jackpots

Bingo rooms have the habit of offering jackpots as part of the entertainment. These jackpots can be progressive, which means that with each ticket bought players contribute a small percentage to an ever growing jackpot pool prize. If there is more than one jackpot winner, the amount is equally split between each winner. Some Bingo rooms or sites offer even no deposit bonuses or other bonuses similar to those that online casinos offer.

A Simple Strategy to Use

The fact is that games of pure luck cannot accommodate a playing strategy that will help you win more frequently. But, instead of a typical playing strategy, with Bingo you can take other things into consideration that can help in having the best Bingo time.

First, carefully choose where you are going to play Bingo. Make a research how respected the Bingo site or room is, and what is its reputation among Bingo players online. A site that avoids or stalls making payouts is a site you should avoid.

Stick to your budget. If you are losing too much take a break and relax in order to reach a decision if you should play more or you have had enough. Set how much you are willing to spend and make sure not to go over that budget. This is important because the worst thing you can make is being carried away in spending more money than you can afford. This way, you won’t blow your bankroll easily. Don’t be greedy and buy only a number of tickets that you can handle.

As final tip, don’t you ever play under the influence, such as alcohol, drugs, depression or any other state of body or mind, which can obstruct you in playing with a clear mind.

Summary

The simplicity of Bingo is always accompanied by plenty of entertainment and social interaction and although you play by yourself, the game can be very socializing. With the ongoing advancement of the internet and online gambling and playing games of chance, the future of this game looks very bright. The only limit is the creativeness of the designers of these games, which so far has proved as very promising. With each year passing, more and more Bingo variations get released.

Useful Bingo Glossary

– Bingo Board: the display where all the numbers that have been drawn can be viewed by the players.

– Caller: this is the person responsible for announcing the numbers that have been drawn.

– Free Space: this is the square in the very middle of Bingo tickets that have a square form.

– Pattern: in order to score a win in Bingo, you need to cross the numbers so that they make a certain pattern, such as all numbers marked in a straight line etc. Bingo games today offer lots of different patterns in order to make the game more interesting, but the most common are vertical, horizontal, and diagonal patterns.

– Wild Number: some Bingo rooms allow wild numbers that can help in your game. These wild numbers can be determined with the help of the first number drawn e.g. 11, after which all numbers ending on 1 will be wild numbers.

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A

Admission Packet

An admission packet is the minimum number of cards that must be purchased to take part in the game. Six to twelve cards usually comprise the admission packet for every regular, and sometimes special, game. The content and price of an admission packet varies by bingo hall.

B

Bingo

Bingo is a specific game of chance in which participants use cards or paper sheets, or card-minding device representations thereof, divided into horizontal and vertical spaces. Each space is designated by a letter and a number, and prizes are awarded on the basis of the letters and numbers on the card conforming to a pre-determined and pre-announced configuration of letters and numbers selected at random.

Bingo Ball

A bingo ball is a ball imprinted with numbers and letters that is used in the selection process of a bingo game.

Bingo Board

A bingo board is display board, usually electronic, that lights up. It shows each number as it is called.

Bingo Event Game

A bingo event game means a type of pull-tab game, with or without a seal card, that is designed by the manufacturer so that certain prizes are determined by the draw of a bingo ball.

Bingo Machine

A bingo machine is a type of selection device with a receptacle for the unselected bingo balls, a blower for selecting the balls and a ball tray that contains seventy-five holes in which to place the ball once it is called.

Bingo Paper Pack or Bingo Booklet

A bingo paper pack or bingo booklet means a specific group of different colored, numbered bingo paper sheets that are manufactured and collated together all containing the same number of faces (ON's) to be played for each game at a bingo session. They are bound in the order in which they will be played.

Blackout

Blackout is a bingo pattern where you must cover the whole card to win. Usually, 50 to 60 of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called to cover all the numbers on a card, but blackouts in as few as 43 numbers have been recorded. Blackout is the same as coverall.

Blower

A blower is a forced-air device that mixes the bingo balls and dispenses them to the caller, who announces the number and displays it on a bingo board.

Bonanza Bingo

Bonanza bingo is a progressive coverall jackpot that is usually played as the 13th game of the session. Forty-five numbers are drawn before the session and players mark them on separate cards and set aside. There is an additional fee to play this game, usually $1. The countdown for a bonanza game begins at 48 numbers or less and goes up one number per week to 52 numbers or until won. The amount of the jackpot is determined by card sales for that game.

Break Open

A break open is a multiply card, made completely from paper or paper products, with perforated break open tab or tabs. Break open is another name for a pull tab or an instant bingo ticket.

Buy-In

A buy-in is buying bingo cards or an admission packet (see above).

C

Caller

A caller is the person (or machine) who calls out the bingo numbers for the players.

Card

A card contains 24 numbered spaces and one free space (blank or it will have a number or the words “Free Space”), with which you play BINGO. The numbers are assigned at random on each card and are arranged in five columns of five numbers each by five rows (5 x 5 = 25 in total, which includes the blank square). The numbers in the B column are between 1 and 15, in the I column between 16 and 30, in the N column (containing four numbers and the free space) between 31 and 45, in the G column between 46 and 60, and in the O column between 61 and 75. Players have thousands of unique (unduplicated) cards to choose from. Most bingo cards used today are disposable and printed on newsprint type of paper. Hard cards are available but are not commonly used today.

Card Minding Device

A card minding device is any mechanical, electronic, electromechanical or computerized device that interfaces with or is connected to equipment used to conduct a game of bingo. It allows a player to store, display and mark a bingo card face.

Charitable Organization

A charitable organization is any religious, benevolent, educational, fraternal, veterans, service, non-profit medical, volunteer rescue, volunteer fire, senior citizen or youth athletic organization that is exempt from the payment of federal income tax under Section 501(a) and listed in Section 501c3, c4, c8, c10 or c19 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Coin board/Merchandise Board

A coin board/merchandise board is a game board that contains coins or merchandise as prizes and is played in conjunction with instant bingo or pull tab tickets. In addition to instant cash winners, the pull tab tickets may designate a winner on the coin or merchandise board. The prize associated with that number is awarded to the ticket holder.

Consolation Prize

A consolation prize is the prize or prizes offered on some special games if there is no winner in a predetermined number of calls.

Coverall

A coverall is a pattern where you must cover the whole card to win. Usually 50 to 60 of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called to cover all the numbers on a card. But coveralls in as few as 43 numbers have been recorded. A coverall is the same as a blackout.

Cut

A cut indicates the direction in which a sheet of bingo faces will be cut from the master sheet. Cuts can be square, horizontal or vertical.

D

Dauber

A bingo dauber is an ink-filled bottle/pen with a foam tip on it used to mark called numbers. When you touch the bingo card with the foam tip, it marks the square. Other names for daubers are dabbers, ink makers and dab-o-ink.

Deal

A deal means each separate game or series of pull tabs that has the same serial number.

E

Early Bird Game

An early bird bingo game is a bingo game that starts before another regularly scheduled game.

F

Face

A face is the individual bingo sheet containing 24 numbers and the free space in the middle.

Flare Card

A flare card is a card or poster included with each deal of instant bingo or pull tab tickets. A flare card will include the name of the game, the form number, the serial number of the game and the cost per ticket or per play. The flare also explains how to play the game and what the winning symbols and associated prizes are.

Flash Board

A flash board, like a bingo board or display board, means a board that displays the bingo numbers called.

Free Space

A free space is the center square of the card, which does not have a number assigned to it. It's like a Joker or a wild square. You get it free every game and it counts towards your winning pattern.

H

Hard Card

A hard card is a reusable card bearing a bingo face or faces.

Hard-Way Bingo

A hard-way bingo is a bingo pattern in a straight line without the use of the free space.

I

Instants

Instants are pull-tabs that pay the prizes immediately.

J

Jackpot

A jackpot is a big prize usually awarded for achieving a difficult pattern (such as a blackout) within a specified number of balls.

L

Lucky Jar, Cookie Jar

The Lucky Jar or Cookie Jar is a container with cash. You win the contents of the lucky jar if you say bingo on the lucky number. The lucky number is usually the first number called at the beginning of a session. Money is added to the jar every time the lucky number is called or if the caller makes a mistake in announcing the game. Usually you can win the lucky jar only on regular games. There is no lucky number during special throw-away games.

M

Minimum Buy-In

The minimum buy-in is the least amount you must spend to be eligible for prizes.

Money Ball

A money ball is a number drawn before the game that will double a player's winnings if bingo is hit on that number.

Moonlight Bingo

Moonlight bingo is a session of bingo that starts late at night, usually about 10 p.m.

Multiple Winners

Multiple winners are when two or more players bingo at the same time. When this happens, the cash prize is divided among them. For example, if there are five winners on a $500 game, they each receive $100.

N

Nicknames

Using nicknames is a way of announcing or repeating the bingo number drawn in a humorous way. In a crowded, noisy room, it also helps to confirm the number called. Bingo play using nicknames persisted in British bingo halls until faster computer draws replaced air-blown balls.

O

Ons

Ons refers to the number of bingo faces per sheet. A 6 ON would have 6 faces per sheet.

P

Pattern

A pattern is the shape you need to cover on your card with called out numbers. You only need the numbers that form the pattern to win the game. The most basic patterns are straight lines in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction. One popular pattern is the 'blackout' or 'coverall,' where you have to cover the whole card to win.

Payout

The payout is the percentage of sales paid out by the house. This compares with a payout of approximately 45 percent on state lottery games.

Postage Stamp Pattern

A postage stamp pattern is matching four numbers to form a postage stamp (a 2 x 2 grid) in any of the four corners.

Progressive Game

A progressive game is a seal card game with a designated jackpot that, if not won, is carried forward and added to the jackpot of the subsequent deals of the game until the jackpot is won.

Progressive Jackpot

A progressive jackpot is a jackpot that gets bigger until it is won. It builds daily, weekly or monthly if it is not won in a specific number of calls. If there is no winner in X number of calls, consolation prize(s) of lesser dollar amounts are paid. Different variations of progressive games add dollars, numbers or both to the jackpot. There is usually a separate buy-in for progressive jackpot games.

Pull Tab

A pull-tab is a game of chance using a folded or banded paper ticket, or a paper card with perforated break open tabs. The face of the pull-tab is covered or otherwise hidden from view to conceal a number, letter, symbol or set of numbers, letters or symbols, some of which have been designated in advance as prize winners. These shall include tickets that utilize a seal card. Pull-tabs are commonly known as tickets, break opens or charity game tickets.

R

Raffle

A raffle is a game of chance in which a participant is required to purchase a ticket for a chance to win a prize, with the winner to be determined by a random drawing.

S

Seal Card

A seal card is a board or placard used in conjunction with charity game tickets that contains a seal or seals which, when removed or opened, reveal pre-designated winning numbers, letters or symbols.

Seal cards can also be pull-tabs that include instant winners, but further the chance to win through utilizing “holders.” Holders are generally red 00’s or 13’s. Once the box of tickets is completely sold, the game operator opens the seal(s). The person(s) holding the number that appears under the seal will win the indicated prize.

Series

A series indicates the number of unique faces that a single set will contain. For example: a 9000 SERIES has 9000 unique faces.

Session

A session is an entire evening or daytime program of bingo consisting of regular games usually played on hard cards and special games played on throwaways, flimsies or paper sheets. A session usually lasts somewhere between two and a half hours and three hours and 15 minutes.

Set

A set refers to the 9000 bingo faces in bingo paper numbered in sequence and are all one color.

Six-pack, Nine-pack

A six- or nine-pack means that there are six or nine numbers in a block on one card.

Special

A special is a game that usually is played with a different set of cards than the pack purchased at admission.

Speed Bingo

Speed bingo is a variation of regular bingo. Numbers are called very quickly and you can bingo in as few as three numbers. Speed bingo is usually played before or after a regular session.

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Speed Game

A speed game is a bingo game in which the winner splits the sales of the game (the pot) with the bingo hall or house. For example, the winner might get 60 percent of the sales and the house would keep forty percent. A speed game can also be played as a coverall with quickly called bingo balls.

Split Pot

A split pot is a bingo game in which the winner splits the sales of the game (the pot) with the bingo hall or house. For example, the winner might get 60 percent of the sales and the house would keep forty percent.

T

Tab Wizard

The Tab Wizard is a point of sale system that assists operators with their pull tab management. The Tab Wizard is the number one selling pull tab point of sale system in the country.

Throwaways

Throwaways are bingo cards printed on thin sheets of paper. There are usually three cards printed on a single sheet but flimsies are also printed in one, two, four, six or nine-card formats. Typically, a flimsy sheet costs one or two dollars and a win on a flimsy on a special game usually pays quite a bit more than a win on a regular game.

Turbo

A turbo is an electronic dauber system used to play multiple packs at once. The unit is very user-friendly and allows a player to play more cards electronically while daubing on his or her paper packet.

U

Ups

Ups refers to the number of sheets that are used to make your bingo book. For example, a 6 UP indicates that the book has six sheets of bingo paper.

V

Validation

Validation is the eligibility required to win additional jackpot amounts. The price varies by number of cards played.

W

Wild Number

The wild number is the number played on a double bingo that leads into a triple bingo. The first number out of the hopper determines the wild number. For example, if 42 is drawn, all numbers ending in 2 should be marked off.

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Wrap Up

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The wrap up is the name of the last game of a session.