Some bingo tips - Bingo Forum

snowbird · #1 02-21-2006, 05:28 PM

Here are some tips I found, some are pretty much no brainers, but I thought I would share

Don't ever play with too many bingo cards. Always be sure that you can keep track of all of your cards at once. If a bingo hall offers you the option of playing as many cards as you want, remember that you can't keep track of all of them, and a win that you don't call is worthless.

Don't bang with your dauber, as it will make the dauber leak or explode, and you'll end up with ink all over you.

The paper cards with smaller card numbers often have the numbers closer together. Longer games being played such as Coveralls are likely to draw numbers in spurts that are close together. In order to win extra coveralls, come in the beginning and be sure to buy one of the first sets of paper cards handed out. Usually when there are big nights, managers will supply the counter with an abundance of cards. Frequently the cards on the top are the smallest number cards. You may verify the next coverall by checking yourself. You will notice the flashboard with the luminous lights lighting up the numbers that are typically, after 30 numbers have being called out, in sets.

Act courteous to the players around you. It is considered very rude to shout out the number that you need.

Burning the number (on paper cards) does not necessarily give an indication that it will come out next.

Try buying a card for a neighbor once a night. It may come in handy when you run out of money.

When you win, share the wealth and the fun by giving a lucky dollar to other players around you. When they win a bigger jackpot, they might give back the lucky dollar or even more, particularly if they happen to win while using your lucky dollar.

One way to improve your chances of winning at bingo is to play on nights that are normally slower. Often on weeknights, there are fewer players in the bingo hall, increasing your chances of winning. If there are fewer players, there are fewer cards in play, meaning that you have a higher percentage of the cards in play, you are more likely to have the winning card.

A good way to get more out of bingo, especially online bingo, is to join a bingo chat room or a bingo newsgroup. You'll find out where the best tournaments, the best bonuses, and the best games are.

If you're losing, don't let yourself get frustrated. Take a break, get a drink, and join the next game. If you're playing online, you can set your cards to auto-daub while you're away.

You can use the bingo board found in the front of the room, or on the game screen if you're playing online, to check that you've marked off all the numbers that have been called.

The last three numbers that were called are always highlighted on the bingo board.

Some online bingo games have bonus balls. Bonus balls will often be a specific bonus color. If the bonus ball appears on your card within the winning pattern, you'll get bonus points if you win. If it doesn't show up within the winning pattern, or if you don't win the round, you won't get the bonus points.

Online bingo often has a count down to the next number called.

If you see a number like 23/75, it means that 23 of a possible 75 number have been called.

dominique · #2 02-22-2006, 03:30 PM

These are great tips!

Surely it is always good to share a little in the good luck, and selecting cards like you describe may raise the odds!

And this one could save a lot of trouble, lol!

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Don't bang with your dauber, as it will make the dauber leak or explode, and you'll end up with ink all over you.

snowbird · #3 02-22-2006, 11:15 PM

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Don't bang with your dauber, as it will make the dauber leak or explode, and you'll end up with ink all over you.

I'm sorry, I can't stop myself from laughing at that one! Can you imagine that actually happening? OMG!

dominique · #4 02-23-2006, 01:20 AM

Cracks me up too!!!

SueBee · #5 02-23-2006, 06:19 PM

Of course I have to be the one to say that I have done that before lol. Had the prettiest splat pattern on the paper too! Before all the ink leaked out, ran off the table and in my lap. But I won!!!!!

LadyHoldem · #6 02-26-2006, 10:04 AM

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When you win, share the wealth and the fun by giving a lucky dollar to other players around you. When they win a bigger jackpot, they might give back the lucky dollar or even more, particularly if they happen to win while using your lucky dollar.

I do this in the casino.. my friends say my dollars really are lucky and wait for them to try the slots! hehe.. I usually get lucky 5's back if anyone wins

gaputernut · #7 02-27-2006, 01:46 PM

In addition to this one....

"Don't bang with your dauber, as it will make the dauber leak or explode, and you'll end up with ink all over you. "

Do not wear white long sleave shirt!! you will have ink all over the sleave when you are done...ruined more than on sweet shirt that way....well...not ruin...as then it became my bingo shirt..LOL

terrapin719 · #8 02-28-2006, 01:55 AM

ROFL ~ I will second the white shirt...only silly clumsy me can't wear ANY white clothing to bingo at all, because I'm sure to get ink on it somehow no matter how careful I am.

ballyhoo · #9 03-01-2006, 08:34 PM

I read over the above advice and thought of a thread I had read elsewhere. Wouldn't it be a totally funny Saturday Night Live skit to have people playing bingo the way some people play holdem poker?

I keep imagining a bingo player shouting "nobody messes with the dr.!!!"

CharlotteK · #10 06-13-2006, 03:48 AM

I love the lucky dollar tip. Kind of a way of passing on some good karma