Sometimes it is uncomfortable to play online bingo because of the unfamiliar words they are using. UK bingo also has a unique set of Bingo Language that is not different from other countries in essence.
• Lucky Jar or Cookie Jar
A container containing cash wherein the contents are of the jar is given if you bingo on the lucky number. The lucky number being the first number called at the start of a session. Every time the lucky number is called or every time the caller makes a mistake in announcing the game, money is being added. The lucky jar is normally won on a regular game since there is no lucky number in special throw-away games.
• Minimum Buy-In
This is the smallest amount you must spend to qualify for the prizes.
• Money Ball
This is a number being drawn before the game which will double up a player's prize money whenever bingo is hit on that number.
• Moonlight Bingo
A bingo game session that starts late at night usually around 10:00 pm.
• Multiple Winners
More than one players declaring bingo at the same time. The prize is usually divided evenly among the winners. For example, if there are eight winners on an $800 winning game, each winner receives $100.
• Nicknames
It’s a caller’s technique of announcing and reiterating the numbers in an amusing way. The caller calls it this way it because it makes it easier to confirm the number despite a crowded and noisy room. This unique and funny way of playing bingo using nicknames continued in British Bingo halls but was soon diminished when quicker computer draws replaced air-blown balls.
• On The Way
The game played on the way to the blackout game. It is played prior to the blackout on the same card. The preliminary games are played first and then more numbers are called until there is a blackout.
• On
A player is said to be “on” when one or more cards they are playing lacks only one number to declare bingo.
• Pattern
It is the shape or form you need to mark on your card with the numbers being called out. In order to win the game, you only need to have that form of the pattern. The most popular pattern is the "blackout" or "coverall" where you have to cover the whole card to win. The basic patterns are straight lines in a vertical, horizontal or diagonal direction.
• Payout
The percentage of sales paid out by the House. The average payout among all bingo halls is approximately 75%. This matches up to the payout of nearly 45% on state lottery games.
• Postage Stamp Pattern
A pattern wherein you need to match four numbers to form a postage stamp in any of the four corners, usually a 2 x 2 grid.
• Progressive Jackpot
A kind of Jackpot where the prize increases until it is won. This usually builds up daily, weekly, or monthly if the prize is not won and the consolation prize of lesser dollar amounts is paid if there is no winner in a specific number of calls. Variations of progressive games would add dollars or numbers, or both, to the jackpot and buy-ins for Progressive Jackpot games are separate.
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Thursday, February 18, 2010
The Bingo Language Part II
Here is the second installment of the Bingo Language used in Bingo. If you are a regular player, I am sure you will find them useful. They are not only used on online bingo or UK bingo, they are also heard on other bingo games.
• Consolation Prize
Whenever there is no winner in a fixed number of calls, this prize is then being given on some special games.
• Coverall
It is a pattern that requires you to cover the entire square of the card which are numbered in order to win. To cover the whole card, 50 to 60 out of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called. To date, as few as 43 numbers have been recorded to get blackouts. It has the same meaning with blackout.
• Daube
It is a tool used for marking the numbers on the card. An ink-filled bottle or pen with foam on the tip. The square in the bingo card is marked using the foam tip.
• Early bird game
A bingo game which is played before a regularly scheduled game starts.
• Flimsy or Flimsies
These are bingo cards patterned on thin sheets of paper. Flimsies are printed in a one, two, four, six or nine card layout but usually they are three cards printed on one whole sheet. On a special game, the win on a flimsy is normally higher compared to that of the win on a regular game. The sheet generally costs $1 or $2. In some areas, it is called “Throwaways”.
• Free pace
This is the square located in the middle of the card. Similar to a Joker or a Wild square, there is no number assigned to it. In every bingo game, you get this free and it also counts with respect your winning pattern.
• G.T.I. or T.E.D.
Applies every time you play multiple packs at one time, this is an electronic dauber system. Only one is allowed for a player to use and a rental fee is also required to obtain these.
• Gameboard or Game Board
It is an electronic display attached to the bingo board which shows the pattern required to win in that specific game. It displays a similar image as that of a bingo card showing the bingo variation you are playing, such as regular, blackout, four corners, chevron and others.
• Game room
Other online games divide the players into game rooms since the smaller group makes a more controllable chat room.
• Hard Card
Compared to that of a flimsy, this type of bingo card is printed on a heavy cardboard material with shutters used to cover each called number.
• Hard-Way Bingo or Hardway Bingo
It is a bingo in a straight line without the use of the free space.
• Jackpot
This is a big prize being rewarded to a player completing a difficult pattern within a specified number of balls such as a blackout.
• Consolation Prize
Whenever there is no winner in a fixed number of calls, this prize is then being given on some special games.
• Coverall
It is a pattern that requires you to cover the entire square of the card which are numbered in order to win. To cover the whole card, 50 to 60 out of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called. To date, as few as 43 numbers have been recorded to get blackouts. It has the same meaning with blackout.
• Daube
It is a tool used for marking the numbers on the card. An ink-filled bottle or pen with foam on the tip. The square in the bingo card is marked using the foam tip.
• Early bird game
A bingo game which is played before a regularly scheduled game starts.
• Flimsy or Flimsies
These are bingo cards patterned on thin sheets of paper. Flimsies are printed in a one, two, four, six or nine card layout but usually they are three cards printed on one whole sheet. On a special game, the win on a flimsy is normally higher compared to that of the win on a regular game. The sheet generally costs $1 or $2. In some areas, it is called “Throwaways”.
• Free pace
This is the square located in the middle of the card. Similar to a Joker or a Wild square, there is no number assigned to it. In every bingo game, you get this free and it also counts with respect your winning pattern.
• G.T.I. or T.E.D.
Applies every time you play multiple packs at one time, this is an electronic dauber system. Only one is allowed for a player to use and a rental fee is also required to obtain these.
• Gameboard or Game Board
It is an electronic display attached to the bingo board which shows the pattern required to win in that specific game. It displays a similar image as that of a bingo card showing the bingo variation you are playing, such as regular, blackout, four corners, chevron and others.
• Game room
Other online games divide the players into game rooms since the smaller group makes a more controllable chat room.
• Hard Card
Compared to that of a flimsy, this type of bingo card is printed on a heavy cardboard material with shutters used to cover each called number.
• Hard-Way Bingo or Hardway Bingo
It is a bingo in a straight line without the use of the free space.
• Jackpot
This is a big prize being rewarded to a player completing a difficult pattern within a specified number of balls such as a blackout.
The Bingo Language Part I
These are terms used in the world of bingo; online bingo or u.k. bingo. Read through them and you’ll be knowledgeable about the bingo lingo in a jiffy:
• Admission Packet
These are a set of cards that you purchase before being admitted to play. It usually contains 3 to 6 cards for every regular game. The contents of an admission packet usually vary from hall to hall. Some may even contain special games to it.
• Bingo Board
This is a display board. It’s mostly electronic and lights the numbers up to show it whenever the caller calls each number.
• Blackout
It is a pattern that requires you to cover the entire square of the card which are numbered in order to win. To cover the whole card, 50 to 60 out of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called. To date, as few as 43 numbers have been recorded to get blackouts. It has the same meaning with coverall.
• Blower
It is a device which uses the force of air to mix and dispense the bingo balls to the caller, who in turn announces the number before displaying it on the bingo board.
• Bonanza Bingo
This is normally played as the 13th game of the session, a progressive coverall Jackpot. Forty-five numbers are being drawn before the session and the players mark them on separate cards and these are set aside. The countdown begins at 48 numbers or less and goes up one number per week to 52 numbers or until won. You usually pay $1 as an additional payment to this game. The prize of the jackpot is established depending on the game’s card sales.
• Buy-In
This is converting cash into bingo cards. Normally means to buy bingo cards or an Admission Packet.
• Caller
The machine or the person who calls out the bingo numbers for the players.
• Card
One of the main tool to be used in playing bingo. A Bingo card basically has 24 numbered slots and one blank slot in which you play Bingo. Randomly arranged numbers are assigned at each card given in the five columns by five rows since there are 25 slots in total including the blank space. The column in B have numbers between 1 to 15, the I column has between 16 to 30, N column between 31 to 45, G column between 46 to 60, and the O column having numbers between 61 to 75. The column N only contains four numbers since the free space is located in this column. Thousands of unique unduplicated cards are being manufactured, some printed a series of 6,000 cards and others even a series of 9,000. Other cards such as Hard and Flimsy cards have printed series numbers on them. Card number 1343, for example, will permanently have the same numbers located on the same slots.
• Chat room
It is where you communicate with other players on the site. In here, a screen is put on view next to your game where you can enter in messages to other players and read their replies.
• Rainbow Pack
A paper pack that makes it possible for a player to play for 3 or 4 various prize denominations at one time.
• Admission Packet
These are a set of cards that you purchase before being admitted to play. It usually contains 3 to 6 cards for every regular game. The contents of an admission packet usually vary from hall to hall. Some may even contain special games to it.
• Bingo Board
This is a display board. It’s mostly electronic and lights the numbers up to show it whenever the caller calls each number.
• Blackout
It is a pattern that requires you to cover the entire square of the card which are numbered in order to win. To cover the whole card, 50 to 60 out of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called. To date, as few as 43 numbers have been recorded to get blackouts. It has the same meaning with coverall.
• Blower
It is a device which uses the force of air to mix and dispense the bingo balls to the caller, who in turn announces the number before displaying it on the bingo board.
• Bonanza Bingo
This is normally played as the 13th game of the session, a progressive coverall Jackpot. Forty-five numbers are being drawn before the session and the players mark them on separate cards and these are set aside. The countdown begins at 48 numbers or less and goes up one number per week to 52 numbers or until won. You usually pay $1 as an additional payment to this game. The prize of the jackpot is established depending on the game’s card sales.
• Buy-In
This is converting cash into bingo cards. Normally means to buy bingo cards or an Admission Packet.
• Caller
The machine or the person who calls out the bingo numbers for the players.
• Card
One of the main tool to be used in playing bingo. A Bingo card basically has 24 numbered slots and one blank slot in which you play Bingo. Randomly arranged numbers are assigned at each card given in the five columns by five rows since there are 25 slots in total including the blank space. The column in B have numbers between 1 to 15, the I column has between 16 to 30, N column between 31 to 45, G column between 46 to 60, and the O column having numbers between 61 to 75. The column N only contains four numbers since the free space is located in this column. Thousands of unique unduplicated cards are being manufactured, some printed a series of 6,000 cards and others even a series of 9,000. Other cards such as Hard and Flimsy cards have printed series numbers on them. Card number 1343, for example, will permanently have the same numbers located on the same slots.
• Chat room
It is where you communicate with other players on the site. In here, a screen is put on view next to your game where you can enter in messages to other players and read their replies.
• Rainbow Pack
A paper pack that makes it possible for a player to play for 3 or 4 various prize denominations at one time.
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