| Admission - Appropriate to enter into bingo hall or can take part in bingo games.
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| Admission Packet - Usually you must purchase packet of 3-6 cards for every regular bingo game as the price of admission. Admission packet is different from hall to hall. |
| After Game - The game played after the end of a regular session of play. |
| Ball Gate - Part of the ball dispensing machine, it's a one-way flap at the top of the 'ball runway' which the ball passes under to enter the main playfield area. |
| Ball Lifter - The mechanism used to raise the ball from beneath the playfield to the 'ball shooter' tip is called ball lifter. |
| Ball Runway - The channel path where the ball is launched up by the ball shooter to enter the main playfield area. |
| Ball Shooter - The loaded spring with a rubber tip used to launch the ball into the playfield area. |
| Basket Bingo - Bingo game where 'basket' online bingo prizes are given. |
| Bingo Board - An electronic board, which lights up each numbers as it is called. |
| Bingo Books/Booklets - A number of different colored bingo sheets/cards bound together to form a book/booklet to be played one for each game at a bingo session. |
| Bingo Card - The card having 24 numbered spaces and 1 free (blank) space, with which you play BINGO. The numbers are randomly assigned on each and every card is arranged in 5 columns of 5 numbers each by 5. The numbers in B column are between 1 and 15, in I column between 16 and 30, in N column (containing four numbers and the free space) between 31 and 45, in G column between 46 and 60, and in O column between 61 and 75. |
| Bingo Marker - A crayon or ink dauber, used to mark the numbers on a bingo game card. |
| Blackout - (Also, Coverall) A pattern where you must mark all the numbers in the card to win. |
| Blower - A forced-air device that mixes the bingo balls and throws one of them out to the caller who announces the number and displays it on a bingo board. |
| Bonanza Bingo - A progressive coverall Jackpot that is usually played as the 13th game of the session. 45 numbers are drawn before the session. Players mark them on separate cards and set them aside. There is an extra charge to play this game, usually $1. The countdown begins at 48 numbers or less and goes up one number per week to 52 numbers or until won. The jackpot amount is determined by bingo card sales for that particular game. |
| Breakopen - A multi-ply card, made completely from paper or paper products, with perforated breakopen tab or tabs. The play area of the game card is covered to conceal a letters, symbols or numbers. |
| Buy-in- to buy bingo cared or admission packets. |
