Auto-purchase - The bingo software automatically buys cards for a player at the beginning of a new game.
Auto Dauber / Catch-up - The method that automatically marks the numbers that are called on the player's card.
Blackout / Coverall - The pattern where a player must cover all numbers on the card to win.
Cash-In-Prize - The game of bingo where the winning prize is a cash payout, usually taken from the money paid in.
Chat Room - Many free uk casino sites offers chat rooms which allows players to read and send messages to other bingo players while they are playing. This is a good place to make new cyber friends.
Four corners - The special pattern where a player needs to cover all the corner numbers of a card to win.
Free space - The center square of the card, which does not have a number assigned to it. It's like a Joker or a Wild square. a player gets it free every game and it counts towards winning pattern.
Hardway Bingo / Hard-way Bingo - Bingo in a straight line without the use of the free space.
Jackpot - The largest prize is awarded when a player make the difficult pattern within the specified number of balls, refered to on player's screen as "balls to jackpot".
Minimum Buy-in - The least amount a player must spend to be eligible for prizes.
Online Bingo card - The card of the player with all his personal numbers. The cards are unique.
Pattern - The shape players need to cover on the card with called out numbers. If there are more than one winners, then the prize is divided equally.
Payout - The percentage of the profits paid out by the online bingo room.
Progressive Jackpot - The jackpot that get bigger every day, until it is won.
RNG – The random number generator is a electric machine that automatically picks the numbers for a bingo game.
T.E.D., G.T.I. - The electronic dauber system used to play multiple packs at once. These require a rental fee and only one is allowed per player.
Wait – The only number that a player needs to complete a pattern and win the game.
Wild number - The number that is determined by the first number. Usually played on a double bingo that leads into a triple bingo.
|
Bingo chat slang
