Online Bingo Guide Terminology List

Auto-buy — the option that purchases the Bingo game cardboards before the game starts.

Being ON or Being Ready — in case the gambler needs just one ball to complete the winning Bingo pattern.

Blackout — a picture where all the numbers on the ticket are to be marked in order to win.

Bubbler — is the min number of balls required to complete the chosen game of Bingo scheme.   

Caller — the manager that calls the numbers as they come.

Chat room — a window displayed besides the game window that is a chat box.

Dauber — the ink marker to cover all the digits on the game tickets as they are called.

Free space — a blank square in the middle of the cardboard that is like a Joker and is daubed automatically.

G.T.I., T.E.D. — the software that automatically covers all the called balls and allows to play with numbers of cards.

Hardway Bingo game — a Bingo game ticket with no blank square.

Jump the Gun — claim for the Bingo in case the last of the winning balls has appeared on the monitor, however, before it was named.

Pattern — a special shape made of marked digits on the Bingo sheet required for the win.

RNG — means the random (indiscriminate) number generator.

Standard — are all the numbers that end with the 2nd digit of the first number. In case the first ball is a 34, all the balls that end with a 4 and B4 are the winning ones.

Forwards and Backwards —  the numbers in the cards that begin or end with the wild number. Once the first ball is 22 all the balls that start or end with 3 are the named ones. The balls that end with 7, 8, 9 or 0 should be redrawn because there are only 5 balls that begin with 7 and no numbers that begin with 8, 9 or 0.

Falsie (“bongo”) — if the gamer names a Bingo but the claim is a mistake. This may be truth for the ground halls as in the web version it is impossible to mishear and daub the incorrect digit.