Bingo

Bingo

A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner.

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booklets

Games; Bingo

A number of different colored bingo sheets/cards bound together to form a book/booklet to be played one for each game at a bingo session. They are usually bound in the order in which they will be ...

bingo card

Games; Bingo

A card containing 24 numbered spaces and one free space (blank), with which you play BINGO. The numbers are assigned at random on each card and are arranged in five columns of five numbers each by ...

bingo marker

Games; Bingo

A crayon or ink dauber that is used to cover the numbers on a bingo game card.

blackout

Games; Bingo

(Also, Coverall) A pattern where you must cover the whole card to win. Usually 50 to 60 of the 75 bingo numbers have to be called to cover all the numbers on a card. But blackouts in as few as 43 ...

blower

Games; Bingo

A forced-air device that mixes the bingo balls and dispenses them to the caller who announces the number and displays it on a bingo board.

bonanza bingo

Games; Bingo

A progressive coverall Jackpot that is usually played as the 13th game of the session. Forty-five numbers are drawn before the session and players mark them on separate cards and set aside. There is ...

breakopen

Games; Bingo

A multi-ply card, made completely from paper or paper products, with perforated breakopen tab or tabs. The game play area of the card is covered to conceal a number(s), letter(s) and/or symbol(s); ...