Bingo

75-ball bingo is the American standard, played on a 5x5 grid with a free centre square. Games are won by completing a designated pattern rather than a full card.

90-ball bingo is the traditional British format, played on tickets of three rows and nine columns containing 15 numbers. Each game has three prizes: one line, two lines and a full house.

Bingo is a game where players mark numbers on tickets as they are drawn, winning by completing a set pattern. Prizes come from the pooled ticket money after the operator's cut, so your odds depend entirely on how many tickets are in play.

A bingo pattern is the specific arrangement of marked squares required to win a 75-ball game. The pattern is announced before play and varies between games within a session.

A bingo ticket is the card of numbers you play with. Buying more tickets increases your share of the prize pool proportionally but does not improve the value of the bet.

A blackout requires marking every number on a 75-ball bingo card. It is the hardest pattern and carries the largest prize, usually with a jackpot attached for completing it within a set number of calls.

A chat moderator hosts an online bingo room, running chat games, welcoming players and enforcing conduct rules. They are the main reason online bingo retains players better than most gambling products.

A dauber is the ink marker used to blot numbers on a paper bingo ticket. Online play replaces it with auto-daub, which marks numbers automatically and removes the tracking element entirely.

A full house is marking every number on a bingo ticket, the top prize in 90-ball bingo. It typically takes between 55 and 75 calls and accounts for most of the prize pool.

A progressive bingo jackpot pays for completing a full house or blackout within a limited number of calls. The call threshold usually rises each day it goes unwon, which makes the jackpot genuinely better value over time.