Live bingo has its own language. Here's all of it, so nothing said on stream leaves you guessing.
On your card
Daub — to mark a number off your card. Ours daub automatically as balls drop, but you can tap to mark them yourself too.
Pattern — the shape you need to complete to get bingo. It changes every game.
Pattern assist — greys out the squares that aren't part of tonight's pattern, so you only look at what matters.
Wild — a rule applied before the game starts that marks a whole set of numbers off your card for free.
Blackout / Cover-all — every square on the card. The biggest pattern, and the biggest prizes.
Crazy — when it's in front of a pattern name, it means rotation counts. A Crazy T is a T in any direction.
1TG / 2TG — "one to go" and "two to go". You'll see these in chat constantly. It means somebody is one or two numbers away from bingo.
Best card — the card of yours closest to winning. It's moved to the top of your screen automatically.
During the game
The caller — the host calling the numbers. Sunday through Thursday, a different one each night.
Heartbeat — the sound our producer hears when someone claims bingo. It's the cue to pause the draw.
Card check — your card going up on screen so the caller can verify the win in front of everyone.
Emeralds Closed / Gold Coins Closed — the prize in that currency has been won. The game continues until the other one is won too.
Spot prize — an extra reward handed out between games, drawn from social media engagement. Present-to-win.
Present-to-win — you have to be in the session and press the button to claim. Applies to free cards.
The horse races
Bino — bingo styled as a horse race. The name goes back to when bingo halls couldn't legally use the word "bingo" for it.
Downline — the five numbers belonging to a horse. Horse 1 owns 1, 16, 31, 46 and 61. Every time one of its numbers is called, that horse moves forward.
Board Open — the caller's signal that horses can be taken. Grab yours quickly; the board fills fast.
Pull tab — a digital version of the cardboard tabs sold in bingo halls. Open one to find out whether you've got a horse, a hold ball, or nothing.
Hold ball — a bingo number from a pull tab. If yours is the last ball called when a horse finishes, you win.
The floor — the pull tabs currently available in a session.
Your account
Gold Coins — the social currency. Play for fun, never redeemable.
Emeralds — the sweepstakes currency. Play for real prizes, redeemable at 1 Emerald to 1 US dollar.
Complimentary Emeralds — Emeralds given to you. Play through them first; what you win becomes Won Emeralds.
Won Emeralds — Emeralds you've won. These are the redeemable ones. You need 50 to redeem.
Redemption verified — the ID check required before you can redeem.
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