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Know the Bingo Glossary

Article Submitted by: Mike Douglas

Saturday, 06 March 2010

The bingo glossary consists of different bingo terms which are used during the bingo games. Some of the common terms are Admission Packet, After Game, Ball Lifter, Ball Runway, Ball Shooter, Bingo Board, Bingo Card, Bingo Marker, Blackout, Bonanza Bingo, Break open, Caller, Cash-In-Prize, Chat Room, Coverall, Dauber, Early Bird Game, Face, Four Corners , Free Space ,Game Room , Hardway Bingo (Hard-way Bingo) ,House ,Instant Bingo , Jackpot, Late Night Bingo (Also, Moonlight Bingo) ,Lucky Jar (or Cookie Jar , Minimum Buy-in , Moonlight Bingo , Money Ball , Multiple Winners , On, On The Way , Pattern , Payout , Postage Stamp Pattern , Prize Bingo , Progressive Jackpot , Quickie, Rainbow Pack , Reno Night , RNG, Session, Shutter Board , Six-pack, Nine-pack , Special, Speed Bingo , Speed Game , Split Pot , T.E.D., G.T.I. , Texas , Blackout, Tickets, Validation, Wild Number , and Wrap Up.

Here we are going to know some of the important terms of the game bingo and its importance in the game.

Admission packet: Admission packet contains the bingo playing cards for every bingo game. It is somewhat like joining kit. You have to pay certain amount of money to become the member of that particular bingo hall or bingo parlor and you will get your starter kit containing certain number of bingo plying cards for the each bingo games under that particular platform. Sometimes it also contains cards for some special games like playing card for mega jackpot of the year. Admission packet is completely depended upon the service provider that what he want to include in it.

After Game: After game is the bingo game played just after the end of a usual session of bingo play.

Ball Lifter: The method used to lift the ball from underneath the playfield to the ball shooter tip.

Ball Runway: Ball Runway is the channel, where the ball is launched up by the ball shooter to go into the core playfield area.

Ball Shooter: Ball shooter is the device used to launch the ball into the playfield location. It is the spring loaded plunger with a rubber tip.

Bingo Board: Bingo board is a bingo ball number display board, typically electronic board that lights up showing each number as it is called.

Bingo Card: A card containing 24 printed numbered spaces and one free space known as blank space, with which you play the game of bingo. Different numbers are assigned to each card at random. These numbers are arranged in 5/5 matrix as five columns of five numbers each which is 5 x 5 = 25 in total including the blank square. The numbers in the first column know as "B-column" are in between 1 to 15, in the second column know as "I-column" it is in between 16 to 30, Similarly in the 3rd, N-column in between 31 to 45 it contain four numbers and the free space, in the 4th, G-column in between 46 to 60, and in the last 5th column, O-column in between 61 to 75. Players have the option of thousands of exclusive playing cards to choose from.

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