Lingo

Bingo Lingo & Patterns

BINGO
Noun: A game of alertness and chance played on cards with a letter and number grid.
Verb: “To BINGO!” is to win at the game of the same name.

“BINGO!”
When you have marked a winning pattern on your BINGO card from the numbers called, you need to call out “BINGO!” before the next number is called.

Birthday Ball
On regular games, if you BINGO on the number of the day you were born, you win an extra prize. The Birthday Ball ticket is available every night at buy-in.

Blackout
Every square of the BINGO card will have a called and marked number to win at Blackout BINGO.

Bonanza
You buy a folded card. At the beginning of the evening’s session, the caller pulls 50 numbers from the BINGO machine. You open the card and daub the 50 numbers that are now displayed on the Bonanza Board. If you don’t like the card you have, you may trade it in for two new ones, paying, again, the cost of the original card.

Bonanza Board
This is the board that displays the first 50 numbers called for the Bonanza game. The numbers will stay the same on this board until the Bonanza game continues on game 30 of the evening's program.

Bonus Numbers
These are the top three numbers on your bonus pay packs. You mark these along with your regular bingo numbers. If you get all three numbers within the first seven numbers called, you will receive a bonus number payout that varies, depending on how many numbers are called. Bonus numbers are also in the GTI computers if you purchase bonus packs. If you get a bonus line BINGO! please yell “bonus line” so the caller can verify the numbers for the added prize.

Buy-in
A Buy-in is either one economy pack, one regular pack, one bonus pack or a GTI computer.

Mark 75
Mark 75 is a Bingo sheet that contains all 75 numbers on one 3-on sheet.

On The Way Up BINGO
A special game may have more than one pattern. A pattern will be announced by the caller for a chance to win. The game then progresses to either a second pattern or a blackout.

Paper Sheet Drawing
This is a drawing done every night. If you sign or initial the back of your papers already played and you deposit them into the two marked large trash cans, your sheet could be drawn for coupons good towards the next time you play BINGO at the Bank.

Payout
The prize paid to the winner of a BINGO game.

Progressive Jackpot
There is a limit to how many numbers may be called before you “BINGO!” to win the Jackpot, the highest prize of this game. In our hall, if the Jackpot is not won, the game continues for a consolation prize. The value of the Jackpot will be increased and one number will be added to the limit of called numbers each week until the Progressive Jackpot is won.

Quinella
An Early Bird game in which you daub (mark) both the called number and its reverse, for example 12 and 21.

Regular Game Packs
There are three types of regular game BINGO packages at our hall. You may choose to play Economy Packs, Regular Packs or Bonus Packs. The payout is greatest when you “BINGO!” playing Bonus Packs; payout is the least when you “BINGO!” on Economy Packs. The packs hold 14 games and are played on sheets with six faces.

Sizzle Ball
Prior to the start of the regular session, the caller will pull two numbers out of the Bingo machine. These numbers are the Sizzle Ball numbers for all regular games for that session. If there is a BINGO! on a Sizzle Ball number and the winner has purchased and signed a Sizzle Ball ticket, the winner receives an added significant prize. That Sizzle Ball number is no longer valid that evening. Multiple winners with a signed Sizzle Ball ticket will divide the prize. A crazy pattern looks like one on the hall’s pattern board plus it may go in any of the possible directions.

Early Birds
Before the Regular Session, three games are played. Each of the three Early Bird games will pay $100.

Easy Six
Easy Six is any three numbers on the top line of a card and any three numbers on the bottom line of the same card.

Electronic BINGO
BINGO at the Bank has computerized BINGO machines. There are three computer choices available.

Faces
What used to be “BINGO cards” are now printed on sheets of paper. A sheet with one game “card” printed on it has one “face” and will be referred to as a “1-on card”. A sheet with three cards printed on it has three faces and is called a “3-on-card”. And so on…

Game Patterns for Regular BINGO
BINGO at the Bank has six ways to win at regular BINGO. (1) Diagonal straight line. (2) Four outside corners. (3) Horizontal straight line. (4) Vertical straight line. (5) Postage stamp, a group of four numbers together in any of the four corners. (6) Small diamond, which is formed by the four numbers that surround the free space in a small plus pattern.

Grand Prix Bingo
Grand Prix BINGO is played separately on big BINGO cards with chips to mark the called numbers. There is minimum buy-in of chips and each chip has an assigned value. It costs one chip for each card you play. You mark your card with other colored chips (not the buy-in chips). To BINGO you are looking for any three in-a-row or four in-a-row with your free space, three out of the four corners, or any small bracket not including your free space. Winners are paid out in chips and they cash these in at the end of the Grand Prix play. Prizes are a 70/30 split for each game. The winner gets 70% as the payout. Multiple winners divide the payout.

Hardway BINGO
This is a winning game pattern where the numbers are in a straight line without the use of the free space. A crazy pattern looks like one on the hall’s pattern board, plus it may go in any of the possible directions.

Double Action
This is a BINGO card that has two numbers in each square. You only need one of the numbers in each square to be called to mark the square. This is a Blackout game, so all squares must have been called and marked before you call “BINGO!”

Speedo
This is a Blackout game played on a 1-on card. The numbers are called every two seconds and are not shown on the Bingo Board. Payout depends on the amount of cards sold. This game is a 70/30 split with the house. The winner gets 70% of sales.

Tag Along
Tag Along is played on a 1-on card along with your regular game packs on game 24. If you BINGO! on the Tag Along first, before a regular game card, you will be paid a substantial prize. If you BINGO! on a regular game pack first, you will be paid the amount of that BINGO and the game will continue until someone wins BINGO! on the Tag Along for a smaller prize.

Triangle
Triangle is a game played on a pre-printed Mark 75 Bingo sheet displaying two triangles. The top triangle is shaded and holds 15 numbers which will pay a larger prize than the bottom triangle which contains only 10 numbers.

Wild Numbers
When a game has wild numbers, you daub all the numbers ending in the wild number. For example, if the wild number is 4, you daub 4, 14, 24, 34, 44, 54, 64, and 74.

Patterns: Click here to see the many ways one can win BINGO.

The Arc Lane County has advocated for and provided services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities since 1953. Services for children’s and families are:

JumpStart - Center-based after school respite program for children, ages 5-21 with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Take a Break Program - Center-based Saturday program for families who have children ages 0 to 17 with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their siblings.

APLUS (Adult People Learning Useful Skills) - Center-based afternoon respite program for ages 18 and over providing instruction and practice of useful skills. Friday Night Fun - Center-based Friday night respite program for ages 18+. Socialize and have fun with peers.

Families Connected - A monthly support group program for families with children, ages 0-17.

Thank you for playing at Bingo at The Bank! Your patronage does make a difference for children
and families in Lane County.