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.