Blingo Game

Figure 1- Blingo Game



Table of Contents
A- How to play Blingo
B- Buying Cards
C- Current Game Info
D- Next Game Info
E- Table Chat

A- How to play Blingo- (Refer to Fig 1-# 1 & 2)
• Blingo hands consists of random cards dealt from a deck of cards. Each hand contains 5 cards.
• Once the game has begun you can watch as the cards are automatically called from a single deck of cards, the aim for the player being to match all the cards in one hand, in order to win Blingo. If a called card matches one of the cards in a player's hand, that card automatically gets marked with a diamond dauber. See image below.



• Your cards that are displayed on the top left hand of the screen will automatically change from: Blingo in 4, to blingo in 3, to blingo in 2 etc until you have 0 to go until Blingo. If you have 0 to go, you have won Blingo, and will be credited with the blingo prize. Your name will then pop up saying that you were the winner of that game. See figure below.



B- Buying Cards:
• While a game is being played, a player can buy into the next game to be played. If a player sits down at the table in between games, a timer (see Figure below) will indicate the time to the next game. To join a game, a player needs to have enough money to buy cards for the game. The money is first deducted from the player’s real account, and if no real money is available, then the remainder is deducted from the bonus bucks account.


• To purchase blingo cards, select the cards you want to play. The number of cards to buy can be adjusted by clicking the 5, 10, 25, 50, 75 and MAX buttons .You can then optionally increase/decrease the amount of cards to buy by clicking the “<” and “>” buttons.See Figure 5 below


• Once you have chosen the cards that you would like to buy, click on the BUY NOW button to buy cards for the next blingo game. The card prices will vary from game to game depending on which Blingo room you are playing in
• If both “real” and “bonus bucks” accounts have insufficient funds, the player won’t be able to join the game and he/she will be asked if he/she wants to purchase additional credits. Each game has a minimum and maximum allowable number of cards. To qualify for a game the player has to buy at least the minimum, and no more than the maximum allowable number of cards.

• Auto play button- If you want to leave your PC, and still be included in the next game you can tick the auto play box. You will be prompted to enter the number of cards to purchase for each possible card denomination. Once you have chosen the cards that you would like to buy you click on the ‘Buy Cards’ tab. See Figure 6 below.


• Total purchase amount -The total amount that you purchased for that specific game will be displayed next to “Total Purchase” see diagram below.



• C- Current Game Info: (Refer to Fig 1-# 3)


• Prize : The prize amount depends on the number of players participating in the game and the number of cards purchased.

• Jackpot : All games are played for a Jackpot. The Jackpot is won by the first player to achieve Blingo within a certain predefined “number of cards”. If there is no winner of the Jackpot in a certain game, then the jackpot is rolled over to the next game. Jackpots are site specific and can thus only be won by players playing the game within that specific site. Jackpots can be changed and can vary according to hours of play.
If the jackpot is won it will automatically reset back to the minimum jackpot amount that is set for that hour.

•Information on number of Cards to Jackpot - If a player gets blingo within the specified number of cards he will win the jackpot. In the figure below the number of cards to jackpot is 10.

• Card price - Each game can have a different price per card set. Price denominations can vary from game to game. Some games may offer free cards on a preset buy-in ratio.
• The total amount of players – This will vary from game to game depending on how many players are participating in that particular blingo game.For example in the figure below, a total of 1 player participated in that game.

• The total hands – These are the total amount of hands that you have bought for a specific Blingo game and will be displayed next to"Total Hands". For example in the figure above, a total of 3 hands were purchased.
• Mini Games- If there is going to be a mini game in the next blingo game, the name and type of Mini game will appear next to the line reading mini game. For example in the figure above there is no mini game as it says “none” next to mini game. Mini games vary is type and are all explained by clicking on the small blue “i” on the screen.
• Bonus hards- The number of bonus hands will be displayed in the next game section only and will vary from Game to Game. Next to bonus hand tab (see figure below) you will see for example 3:1.This simply means that in the next game you can buy 3 cards and get 1 free.

• D- Next Game Info- (Refer to Fig 1-# 4)
All the details except ‘Total Cards’ explained above will be displayed for the next game and transferred to the current game info, as soon as the game starts. See figure below



E- Table Chat- (Refer to Fig 1-# 5)
Once you are seated at the blingo table you can chat to the other players that are sitting with you at the table. You can chat to players at your table by entering text in the chat bar located in the bottom of you screen below the menu bar. When you are seated at the table and chatting to the other players, you can see their hands changing colour as they get closer to getting blingo. As can be seen in the figure below. Your cards will change to the following colours:
• Red – when you have three cards to go.
Yellow -when you have two cards to go.
Green -when you have one cards to go.
Purple -when you have 0 cards left to Blingo


• Table chat - Players can also chat to other player within the site using table chat board, this chat is moderated by a chat leaders and is access by clicking on the “Chat” button in the menu bar See figure 9 below



• Impact of Disconnection
Once a player has purchased cards for a game, then no further game interaction is required from the player to complete that game. Thus, in the event of a player being disconnected, the game will be completed without a player's presence, and all winnings will be credited to the player's account.
If a player has purchased cards for the subsequent game and that game had not yet started at the time of disconnection, then the player will not be included in the subsequent game and any monies deducted for that game will be refunded.
Please note that if a player is disconnected while playing a currently active bingo game, then the player will only be able to log in again after that game has completed.

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