Admission Packet - Minimum number of bingo cards that you must purchase as the price of the admission. Exactly what is part of the Admission Packet varies from bingo hall to bingo hall.
Blackout - (Also, Coverall) A given pattern where you must complete the whole card to win.
Online Bingo Board - A display board, usually electronical that lights up showing each number as it is called out.
Online Bingo Card - A card containing 24 numbered spaces and one free blank space, with which you play B-I-N-G-O. The numbers are assigned randomly on each card and are arranged in five columns of five numbers each by five rows (5 x 5 = 25 in total including the blank square). The numbers in the (B) column are between 1 and 15, in the (I) column between 16 and 30, in the (N) column (containing four numbers and the free space) between 31 and 45, in the (G) column between 46 and 60, and in the (O) column between 61 and 75.
Bonanza 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 an additional fee to play this game, usually $1. The countdown begins at 48 numbers or less and go up one number per week to 52 numbers or until won. The amount of the jackpot is determined by card sales for that game.
Buy-in - Buying bingo cards or an Admission Packet (view above).
Caller - A person who calls out the bingo numbers.
Chat Room - A handy monitor or screen where you can read and exchange messages with other online bingo players.
Consolation Prize - The prize or prizes offered on some special games if there is no winner in a predetermined number of call outs.
Free Space - The centered square of the card, which does not have a number assigned to it. It is like a Joker or a Wild square. You get this free in every game and it counts towards your winning pattern.
Game Board, Gameboard - It is a electronic display that is attached to the bingo board to show the pattern needed to win to that particular game. It looks like a bingo card and shows what variation of bingo game you are playing at that particular moment on the bingo program. (For example:- four corners, chevron, regular, blackout, etc).
Game Room - Some online games split the players into different game rooms.
G.T.I., T.E.D. - A electronic dauber system used to play multiple packs at the same time. This usually requires a rental fee and only one is allowed per player.
Hardway Bingo - Bingo in a straight line without the use of a free space.
Jackpot - A big prize usually awarded for achieving a hard pattern, such as a blackout, within a specified number of balls.
Lucky Jar (or Cookie Jar) - A container with cash. You win the contents of the lucky jar if you strike bingo on the lucky number.
Minimum Buy-in - The least amount you must spend to be eligible for winning prizes.
Money Ball - A number drawn before the game that will double the player's winnings if bingo will hit on that number.
Multiple Winners - Two or more players win the bingo at the same time. When this happens, the cash or prize is divided among them.
On - A player is said to be (On) when one or more cards they are playing lacks only one number for a bingo win.
On The Way - The game played on the way to a blackout game. It is played prior to the blackout on the same card. First the preliminary game(s) are played and then more numbers are called until there is the blackout.
Pattern - The shape you need to complete on your card with the called out numbers, usually it is in a diagonal line; horizontal, vertical or straight.
Payout - The percentage of sales made, paid out by the House.
Postage Stamp Pattern - Matching four numbers to form a postage stamp (a 2 x 2 square) in any of the four corners.
Progressive Jackpot - A Jackpot that gets bigger and bigger until it is won.
Six-pack, Nine-pack - Six or nine numbers in a block on one given card.
Split Pot - A bingo game in which the winner splits up the sales of the game (the pot) with the bingo hall or the bingo House.
Texas Blackout - A variation of bingo. The first number called will either be odd or even. If the first number is called and is even then all the even numbers on all your cards are Wild (like jokers). Cover all the even numbers. If the first number called is odd, cover all the odd numbers. The game is then proceeded to be a blackout.