Quickie | Numbers are called as quickly as possible & the card must be full to win Bingo. |
Rainbow Pack | A paper pack that allows players to play for three or four different prize denominations at once. |
Reno Night | An evening of casino games like blackjack and roulette. These are sometimes held in bingo halls but more often in restaurants and hotels, Eagles & Elks clubs and other fraternal organizations. |
RNG | Random Number Generator; the machine used to pick the numbers for a game of bingo. Most are electronic. |
Serial Number | The minimum five-character number printed by a manufacturer on each set of charity game tickets/cards. Each ticket in a set contains the same serial number. |
Series | Indicates the number of unique faces that a single set will contain. For example: a 9000 Series has 9000 unique faces. |
Session | An entire evening or daytime program of bingo consisting of regular games usually played on hard cards and special games played on throwaways, flimsies or paper sheets. A session usually lasts somewhere between two and a half hours and three hours and 15 minutes. |
Shutter Board | A hand-held re-usable plastic board with pre-printed numbers, usually in a 4x4 format. These numbers are marked off by closing shutters over them. |
Six pack or Nine pack | Six or nine numbers in a block on one card. |
Special | Games that usually are played with a different set of cards than the pack purchased at admission. |
Speed Bingo | A variation of regular bingo. Numbers are called very quickly and you can bingo in as few as three numbers. Usually played before or after a regular session. |
Speedgame, Speed Game | A coverall that is called very quickly. It is sold as a special game one card at a time. |
Split Pot | A bingo game in which the winner splits the sales of the game (the pot) with the bingo hall or House. For example, the winner might get 60 percent of the sales and the house would keep forty percent. |
