Bingo Online- Useful Glossary

If you are doing your first steps in the world of online bingo, you might encounter some terms that you won't fully understand.
Online bingo, like every other hobby, has its own terms that player use while playing. Those terms are an important part of the game and if you want to be a good online bingo player, you have to know those bingo terms before you start playing in bingo rooms.

Here is a useful glossary:

• Admission - a sum of money that a player must pay in order to participate in a game in a bingo hall.



• After Game - the game that is being played after the end of the regular sessions.



• Bingo Board - the electronic board that displays the numbers the have been called.



• Bingo Card - the card on which the game is played on. The bingo card usually contains 24 numbered spaces and one blank space.



• Caller - this is the persons who calls out the numbers in the game.



• Chat Room - a unique feature that allows you to chat and exchange information with the other players in the bingo room.



• Face - another name for a bingo card.



• Free Space - the spot in the center of the bingo card. This space can serve as a joker in some games and in other games it is not used at all.



• Hardway Bingo - this style of bingo is a game that use only straight lines without the free space in the middle of the card.



• Jackpot - this is a unique prize that is given after completing a difficult pattern.



• Minimum Buy-In - the lowest sum of money that you must invest in order to be eligible to win prizes in the game.



• Pattern - the shape that you need to complete in order to win a certain game.



• Progressive Jackpot - a prize that keeps getting bigger until it is won. Usually the minimum buy-in for progressive jackpot bingo games are higher than the regular.



• RNG - random number generator. This is the machine that decides on the balls and the numbers.



• Speed Bingo - a variation of the game that is usually played before or after the main bingo game. In this variation that numbers are called very quickly and the players can complete pattern in a matter of minutes.



• Wrap Up - the last game of the session in bingo rooms.