| Admission |
To be eligible to enter a bingo hall and / or participate in a bingo game. |
| Admission Package |
A minimum number of cards you must buy as the price of admission. Usually, you must buy a package of admission, which contains usually three to six cards for each regular game and may also contain some special games. Exactly what is part of package of admission varying from room to room? |
| After Game |
The game played after the end of a regular session of play. |
| Ball Gate |
Part of the ball supply machine, the one-way flap at the top of the ball runway which the ball passes under to enter the main playfield area. |
| Ball Lifter |
The device used to raise the ball from beneath the playfield to the ball shooter tip. |
| Ball Runway |
The channel where the ball is launched by the ball shooter to enter the playfield of the main game. |
| Ball Shooter |
The spring full plunger with a rubber tip used to launch the ball into the playfield area. |
| Basket Bingo |
Bingo game where "basket" prizes are given. |
| Bingo Board |
A display board, generally electronic that lights up showing each number as it is called. |
| Bingo Card |
A card containing 24 numbered spaces and one free space (vacuum), with which you play bingo. The numbers are assigned at random on each card and are set in five columns of five numbers each by five rows (5 x 5 = 25 in total including the blank square). The figures in column B are between 1 and 15, in column I between 16 and 30, in column (containing four numbers and the free space) between 31 and 45 in the G column between 46 and 60, and the O column between 61 and 75. Players have thousands of single cards to choose from. Some manufacturers print unduplicated series of 6,000 cards. There are also series of 9,000 cards available. Hard cards and Flimsy cards have a serial number printed on them. For example, card number 1252 will always have the same numbers in the same spaces. |
| Bingo Marker |
A crayon that is used to cover the numbers on a bingo game card. |
| Blackout |
With a pattern where you must cover the whole card to win. Usually, 50 to 60, number 75 of bingo must be called to cover all numbers on a card. But failures in as little as 43 numbers have been registered. |
| Blackout or Coverall |
This is a pattern where you must cover all numbers on the card to win. |
| Blower |
A forced-air machine that mixes the bingo balls and dispenses them to the caller who announces the number and displays it on a bingo board. |
| Bonanza Bingo |
A mixture of a progressive 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 cost to play this game, usually $ 1. The countdowns begin at 48 numbers or less and go up one number per week to 52 numbers or until won. The amount of the jackpot is determined by card sales for this game. |
| Break Open |
A multi-ply card made from paper with perforated tabs. The play area of the card is cover to conceal numbers, letters or symbols, some of which have been designated in advance as prize winners. |
| Buzzword Bingo |
A game played using buzzwords in place of numbers. Players mark words and phrases on their card as they are spoken. The first player to mark five phrases or words in a row calls “bingo”. |
| Caller |
The person who calls out the bingo numbers as they are drawn. |
| Cash In Prize |
A form of bingo where the prize is a cash payout. This is taken from the money paid in. |
| Casino Night |
An event organized for a period of time (usually early in the afternoon and ending at midnight) during which a qualified organization is entitled to hold activities casino gambling style. Games run: bingo, roulette, blackjack, poker, craps, gin rummy, Five Card Stud Poker, and merchandise wheels. |
| Chat room |
You will see the chat room in the bottom left corner of the screen. You can switch between the chat room and slots at any time even during play by making the suitable selection. This is a good place to make new bingo friends. |
| Consolation Prize |
The prize or prizes offered on some particular games if there is no winner in a predetermined number of calls. |
| Coverall |
A channel where you must cover the whole card to win. |
| Early Bird Game |
A bingo game that starts before than another regularly schedule game. But sometimes the Early Bird game is only the first game of the session. The first game of a session is more normally known as a Warm Up. |
| Face |
The individual bingo sheet containing 24 numbers plus the free space in the middle. |
| Flimsy or Flimsies |
Bingo cards printed on thin sheets of paper. There are generally three cards printed on one sheet, but flimsier are also printed in one, two, four, six or 9-card formats. In general, a thin sheet costs one or two dollars and a slim victory over a special game generally pays a little more than a victory on a regular game. Also called throwaways in some areas. |
| Four Corners |
A pattern where you must cover the corner numbers of the card. If you get those four numbers, you win. |
| Free space |
That is always the middle square of the card and if integrated in the current pattern counts towards your winning numbers. |
| Game Board |
An electronic display that is attached to the bingo board to show the pattern needed to win that particular game. It looks like a bingo card and shows what difference of bingo you are playing on that particular game on the program. |
| Game Room |
Some online games separate the players into game rooms. |
| GTI or TED |
An electronic dauber system used to play multiple packs at one time. These generally require a rental fee and only one is allowed per player. |
| Hard Card |
A bingo card printed on heavy cardboard material usually with shutters to cover each number as it is called out. |
| Hardway Bingo |
Bingo in a directly line without the use of the free space. |
| House |
A casino or gambling center. Also the property owners or the operators of a gambling game, such as Bingo. |
| Inlaid Card |
A pre-printed card, usually in 4x4 formats laid into a table, and black discs are used to cover the numbers as they are called out. |
| Instant Bingo |
A breakopen ticket which contains the letters B I N G O, bingo card faces, bingo numbers, and no other signs. Winning tickets may incorporate letters spelling the word B-I-N-G-O, or contain a complete pre-designated bingo pattern like vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line. |
| Jackpot |
The largest cash prize, generally awarded for achieve a hard pattern (such as a blackout) within a particular number of balls. One type of bingo jackpot is the progressive jackpot, in which the prize amount increases during play, and the winner is the first person to reach bingo within 50 calls. |
| Late Night Bingo |
Session of bingo that starts late at night, generally about 10:00 pm. |
| Lucky Jar |
A container with cash. You win the contents of the bottle are lucky if you bingo on the lucky number. The lucky number is usually the first number called at the beginning of the session. The money is added to the pot every time the lucky number is called or if the appellant made a mistake in announcing the game. Generally, you can win the pot luck on the regular games. There is no lucky number in play on special throw games. |
| Main Stage Bingo |
The main event of a session of bingo, and the one said to draw the most customers. |
| Minimum Buy-in |
The least amount you must spend to be suitable for prizes. |
| Money Ball |
A number drawn before the games that will double players winnings if bingo is hit on that number. |
| Moonlight Bingo |
Session of bingo that starts late at night, about 10:00 pm. |
| Multiple Winners |
Two or more players’ bingo at the same time. When this happens, the cash prize is divided among them. |
| Mushroom |
A group of bingo displays which takes its name from its shape - it has a narrow tubular base, and a wider head with the machinery used to play the game and collect money from players. Customers sit around the mushroom to play, and there are generally 6 to 8 positions at each. |
| On |
A player is said to be On when one or more cards they are playing lacks only one number for a bingo. |
| On The Way |
The game plays on the way to the blackout game. It is played previous to the blackout on the same card. First the first round games are played and then more numbers are called until there is a blackout. |
| Parti |
Short for participation bingo, a type of slot bingo or cash bingo where the prize is cash and depends on the number of players, since the cash prize of as a minimum 50% of the amount paid in. boards The most common use for the party bingo are inlaid cards and hand-held boards of the shutter. |
| Pattern |
You only require the numbers that the model form found on the screen at the top right of your screen to win the game. If you can do in the balls designated for the jackpot, you win the jackpot. If not, you win the lot. If there are multiple winners, the prize is divided regularly. |
| Payout |
The percentage of sales paid out by the House. The standard payout among all bingo halls is just about 75 percent. This compares with a payout of approximately 45 percent on state lottery games. |
| Postage Stamp Pattern |
Similar four numbers to form a postage stamp (a 2 x 2 grid) in any of the four corners. |
| Prize Bingo |
A game of bingo in which a set prize, vouchers or cash can be won. There are plenty of exciting prizes to be won at Littlewoods Bingo, on top of all the cash winnings up for grabs. |
| Progressive Jackpot |
A jackpot that grows until won. It builds daily, weekly or monthly, if not won in a particular number of appeals. If there is no winner in X number of calls, consolation prize (s) dollar amounts are paid less. Different variants of progressive games add dollars or numbers, or both, the jackpot. There is usually a buy-in separate progressive jackpot games. |
| Quickie |
Numbers are called as speedily as possible & the card must be full to win Bingo. |
| Rainbow Pack |
A paper pack that allows players to play for three or four special prize denominations at once. |
| Reno Night |
An evening of casino games like blackjack and roulette. These are sometimes held in bingo halls but more often in restaurants and hotels, Eagles & Elks clubs and other fraternal organizations. |
| RNG |
Random Number Generator; the machine used to pick the numbers for a game of bingo. Most are electronic. |
| Serial Number |
The minimum five-character number printed by a manufacturer on each set of charity game ticket. Each ticket in a set contains the same serial number. |
| Series |
Indicates the number of unique faces that a single set will contain. |
| Session |
An entire evening or daytime program of bingo consisting of regular games generally played on hard cards and special games played on throwaways, flimsies or paper sheets. A session generally lasts somewhere between two and a half hours and three hours and 15 minutes. |
| Shutter Board |
A hand-held re-usable plastic board with pre-printed numbers, generally in a 4x4 format. These numbers are marked off by closing shutters over them. |
| Six pack or Nine pack |
Six or nine numbers in a block on one card. |
| Special |
Games that generally are played with a different set of cards than the pack purchased at admission. |
| Speed Bingo |
A difference of regular bingo. Numbers are called very quickly and you can bingo in as few as three numbers. Generally played before or after a regular session. |
| Speed Game |
A coverall that is called very speedily. It is sold as a special game one card at a time. |
| Split Pot |
A bingo game in which the winner splits the sales of the game with the bingo hall or house. |
| Table Board Bingo |
A lottery system in which players purchase a table board card. To win, players must total specified arrangements or patterns of numbers on the Table Board from numbers selected at random. |
| Texas Blackout |
A variation of bingo. The first number called will be either odd or even. If the first number called is Even then all the even numbers on all your cards are Wild. Cover all the numbers. If the first number called is Odd, cover all the odd numbers. The game then proceeds to a blackout. |
| Tickets |
These are printed pages on which the main stage bingo is played. They are laid out in grids, and usually come in books. Some tickets have bar-codes which describe the numbers on them and are used to help check claims. |
| Validation |
Eligibility required winning additional jackpot amounts. Price varies by number of cards played. |
| Wild Number |
Generally 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 are drawn, all numbers ending in 2 should be marked off. |
| Wrap Up |
The name of the last game of a session. |
