The following is a list for the novice bingo player of popular bingo terms:

#: this indicates the amount of numbers you require to win a game.

 Admission:  In order to pay for admission into a bingo hall and play the majority of bingo halls or houses require you to buy a definite small amount of cards. In general, an ‘admission package’ is the usual purchase. For each usual game the package generally comprises three up to six cards per game. Exceptional games are generally also included in the package. Halls vary greatly in their offering of admission packages.    

AFAIK is short for:  As far as I know

AFK is short for:  Away from keyboard

AFK2P is short for:  Away from keyboard to pee

After Game(s): This refers to the game\s you can play following the usual play session. For ‘session’ see the defined term.

AKA is short for:  Also known as

ASL is short for:  Age, sex, location

Auto Purchase: This refers to the provision whereby at the beginning of a fresh game cards can be purchased automatically by the players.

BBIAM is short for:  Be back in a minute

BBS is short for:  Be back soon

BC is short for:  Be cool

Bingo Board: this is a special display board, which is generally electronically produced, so that as each number is called out it lights up on the board. In the bingo game there seventy numbers and free space.

Bingo Card: this is a unique player’s card containing its particular numbers.

Bingo Marker: this is the implement used for covering or marking off the numbers on the bingo card and is generally an ink dauber or crayon.

Bingo Support: for assisting the participants all bingo sites have a support and assistance system.

BINGO! On completing all the numbers of the played pattern the player shouts out the word Bingo. And when this happens all the other participants moan in misery ‘oh shucks’. As a result the Bingo Today newspaper has moved the motion to replace the name ‘oh shucks’ instead of bingo. This radical move has very little backing at the moment. They claim that why in Washington State you can’t name the game ‘oh shucks’ if in Massachusetts they can refer to it a Beano.      

Blackout: The aim here is mark off all twenty five numbers on your card which is a different form of the bingo game. In general in such games, in order to cover all the card’s numbers you have to have called out something like fifty to sixty of the entire seventy five numbers of bingo. However, during the last five years in the Seattle region, there have been recorded as little as forty two to forty three numbers called out. Although not rare, yet not a common occurrence, blackouts have had forty eight or forty numbers called out.    

Blower: this is a means for combining bingo halls by a forced-air contraption and presents the numbers to the caller who then calls them out and uses the bingo board for displaying them publicly.

Bonanza Bingo: This game is played on little paper cards and is a particular type of bingo. Before beginning each round the sealed sheets are bought and can also be bought during the course of the round. Bonanza Bingo rules are not uniform throughout the bingo houses but in general prior to the session’s beginning the caller takes out fifty numbers. You can see the numbers on a special board where they are displayed. The player wins an immediate prize if he or she obtains a blackout on any of the bought Bonanza bingo sheets by marking with the fifty drawn numbers. As the session draws to a close and nobody wins, then more numbers are pulled out up to the moment consolation prizes are awarded to at least one winner.

Bonus Dollars: this refers to the prize granted for taking part in the chat room and for placing deposits.

BRB is short for: Be right back

Caller: the bingo numbers are called out by this person – the caller. So if you are looking for a scapegoat to punish for somebody beating you to it in bingo, then this is the guy.

Card: This is the bingo card comprising one ‘free space’ and twenty four numbered spaces. Five numbers each are set in five columns or rows. Randomly placed, five numbers ranging from one to fifteen are placed in the B row. Five numbers ranging from sixteen to thirty are placed in the I row. Four numbers and the empty space ranging from thirty one to forty five are placed in the N row. Five numbers ranging from forty six to sixty are placed in the G row. Five numbers ranging from sixty one to seventy five are placed in the O row. Thousands of individual cards are available to the player to select from.

Catch up: this is used when the player is lagging behind in covering up the numbers and marks off the numbers that have been already called out.

Chat Games: these types of games you play in the chatroom and winning the bonuses is performed by chat monitors.

Chatroom: at any bingo site this is the location for going to chat.

Consolation(s): on a number of special or flimsy games when no one wins in a preset amount of calls a prize or more are offered.   

Dauber is a kind of ink for marking and can be bought in small bottles of plastic; it is used for marking off numbers on sheets called ‘flimsy’. Go to flimsy for its definition. 

Early Bird: The beginning of a bingo game’s session is this term’s name. It is sometimes used to name for the session’s first game. However, ‘warm up’ is the session’s first game usual name. See ‘session’ for its definition.

First Deposit Bonus: it is usual to receive on your first deposit a special sum of bonus dollars to use for playing a bingo game.

Flimsies: these are thin sheets of paper upon which the bingo cards are printed. On a single sheet it is customary to print three cards, however flimsies are printed in formats of one, two, four, six or nine cards. The price of a typical flimsy sheet is one to two dollars and winning a ‘special’ game on a flimsy generally rewards you much more generously than a ‘regular’ game win, also in some locations called as ‘throwaways’.   

Free Cards: In a bingo game, free cards are occasionally provided at the beginning, and if you purchase a specific number such as ten, then you get five free of charge.

Free Space is the bingo card’s center which is a space. No number is attached here and it is constantly ‘wild’. On beginning a fresh game this area should be covered.

Game Board: Fixed next to the bingo board is this electronic display board which is similar in appearance to a bingo card and displays the bingo variations being played on that specific game’s program. For instance, blackout, chevron, regular, four corners, and so on.

Guaranteed Coveralls: games for covering all and in seventy five calls can be won.

Hard Card is a bingo card which has been printed on a substance of heavy cardboard generally with blinds to cover up each number. Six thousand of one-time cards are printed out by several manufacturers. Also obtainable are nine thousand cards series. The ‘flimsy’ and hard cards have printed upon them a number series. For example, card number 1252 is arranged so that the identical spaces always contain the identical numbers. The hard cards are speedily becoming obsolete and will probably end up as vintage items for collectors.   

Jackpot: a ‘special’ or ‘flimsy’ game’s prize. Occasionally the type of jackpot is known as progressive, meaning that it increases in amount daily or weekly. Frequently the numbers which are needed to win are also progressive. The pot gets easier to win as the more numbers are added.

Keno is a game of lotto where you select an amount of numbers, usually twenty, from a much larger amount, usually eighty. The participants pick out a group of numbers from the principle field – generally at least three and at most ten numbers – and receive prizes according to the number of matches in the selected set.   

Lucky Jar is also known as ‘cookie jar’ and is the money container. If you bingo the ‘lucky number’ then you take all the lucky jar’s contents. The ‘lucky number’ refers to the first called number at the session’s start. Each time the lucky number is called or if the caller when calling the game makes some mistake then cash is put into the jar. It is usual to win the lucky jar on ‘regular’ games solely. On ‘special’ throw away games there is no played lucky name.   

Moonlight Bingo is a bingo ‘session’ that usually begins about ten o clock in the evening and continues late into the night.

Multiple Winners is the term used for at least two players winning simultaneously and they share the cash prize. For instance, if five winners win five thousand dollars together they each get one hundred dollars.

On: the term ‘on’ refers to a situation when the player requires on one or more of his or her cards just one more number to claim bingo and win.

 On the way: this term is also known as ‘games on the way’. Before the blackout and using the same card these bingo games are played on a blackout. At first the initial game or games are played and afterwards additional numbers are called out up to the blackout stage.

Online help: this is the support option enabling you to chat to a help team member online.  

Pattern: this is the type of design on the card which needs to be covered.

Payout: This is the sales percentage which the ‘house’ pays out. In Washington State the average sum is in the region of seventy five percent among all the bingo halls. If compared the State of Washington’s lottery games it is a favorable forty five percent more.

Progressive: this is the name of the jackpot prize that increases each day, each month or each week if no specific call wins it. If in a specific number of calls no winner appears, then consolation prize\s of smaller dollar sums are awarded. Progressive games vary, some increase the jackpot prize with dollars or numbers or both combined. 

Promotions: a number of bingo sites operate various games of promotions. 

Pull Tab: this is a game which is very akin to a lottery game of Washington State. For twenty five to fifty cents at least tickets are sold and generally award prizes evaluated free of charge and up to five hundred dollars. Perforated windows cover each ticket which can be opened to display symbols akin to those displayed on slot machines or various games of lottery.   

Punch Board: this is another type of lottery. Here the participant ‘punches’ out a slot on a board to obtain a business award. Favorites are also the punch cards awarding prizes in cash.

Reno Night: this is when an evening is spent playing casino games such as roulette and blackjack. These game evenings occasionally take place in bingo halls, but more frequently in hotels and restaurants and fraternal clubs such as Eagles and Elks.  

Reno Trip: A Reno trip for two people is a blackout payout award. In general, the trip comprises plane tickets, accommodation at a hotel, and transportation in the city. A choice is offered between accepting this trip or taking the two hundred and fifty to three hundred dollar cash prize.

RGN: this is the random number generator, the machine that selects automatically the numbers in the game and in this manner assures an honest game.

Session: this refers to a number of bingo games taking a whole evening or daytime program; it comprises ‘regular’ games generally played with ‘hard cards’ and special games which are played on paper sheets or ‘throwaways’. Usually the session takes a number of hours ranging from two and a half hours and up to three and a quarter hours.  

SET: this term refers to the situation when the player requires to win bingo only one number more.

Sign Up Bonus: The majority of Internet bingo games provide a sign up bonus to their players. The idea behind this is to motivate people to subscribe. Bonus money cannot be cashed out.  

Special: this is a flimsy sheet game. View ‘flimsy’ for an explanation.

Speed Bingo: this is a regular bingo game variant. Here you can win on as less as three numbers as the numbers are announced speedily. This game usually takes place following a regular session or prior to one.  

Split Pot: this is the bingo game where the winner splits the pot, namely, the game’s sales with the house or bingo hall. For instance, the house could get forty percent while the winner puts in his or her pocket sixty percent of the sales. 

Stream: bingo stream is another name for the bingo rooms.

Texas Blackout: this is a bingo variant. In this game the first called number is either and even or an odd. All even numbers on the cards are ‘wild’ if the first called number is an ‘even’. All the numbers are odds if the first called number is an odd. Then blackout terminates the game. 

Trouble Ticket: this is a device enabling the participants to convey via the bingo Internet site information to the support assistance.

Warm Up: view the ‘early bird’ definition for an explanation.

 WOT is short for, waste of time.

Wrap Up: this is the term used to describe the ‘session’s final game.