How To Play 90-Ball Bingo

Overview: How To Play 90-Ball Bingo
90-ball bingo is the dominant style of bingo played in the United Kingdom. The Bingo 90 game’s bingo cards at Bingo Liner have random numbers ranging from one through 90. Once the bingo game has begun, the Bingo Liner computer will call out all 90 Bingo balls – from a pool of 90 balls – at random.

You’ll see the numbers get marked off on your bingo card when the numbers are automatically called during the game. If the number that is called is on your bingo card, then that number is marked off. In 90-ball bingo at Bingo Liner, if the pattern on your ticket matches the winning pattern, you’ll get B-I-N-G-O and be eligible to win a prize.

First place goes to the player that correctly marks off any horizontal line, second place goes to the player that correctly marks off any 2 horizontal lines, and the “Full House” winner covers all 3 lines on the ticket.

90-Ball Bingo Cards
The sold for 90-ball bingo games inside Bingo Liner have a 3×9 chart of numbers. Each horizontal line has 9 boxes displaying 5 numbers and 4 empty spots.

The lines are arranged like so:

• 1-9 (1st Column)
• 10-19 (2nd Column)
• 20-29 (3rd Column)
• 30-39 (4th Column)
• 40-49 (5th Column)
• 50-59 (6th Column)
• 60-69 (7th Column)
• 70-79 (8th Column)
• 80-90 (9th Column)

The tickets have 3 horizontal lines and 9 vertical columns in 90-ball games. Each line contains five numbers; thus each card totals 15 numbers.

Winning Patterns
When it comes to 90-ball bingo games, there are 3 winning patterns at Bingo Liner that can bring you a win, and each unique pattern has its own prize amount.

Successive patterns in 90-ball bingo are:

• Any 1 Line (i.e. Cover all the numbers in any one row)
• Any 2 Lines (i.e. Cover all the numbers in any two rows)
• Full House (i.e. Cover all 15 numbers on a ticket)

Occasionally, players at Bingo Liner can collect all three of the prizes during one game if they’re the first one to get all three patterns.

: Prizes & Jackpots
In Bingo Liner’s , the prize amount depends on the number of bingo cards you have and the number of people who are participating in the bingo game.

All bingo games are played for a Jackpot at Bingo Liner. The Jackpot amount varies according to hours of play and predetermined patterns. The first player to hit “BINGO” within a set number of balls wins the jackpot. In the event no one wins the jackpot, the jackpot is carried over to the following game.

Occasionally, Bingo Liner offers a in a specified number of bingo games. Bingo Liner calls this the “Mega Vault” (aka Bingo Bonanza) Progressive Jackpot and it is played across all participating Leapfrog Gaming sites.

Game Options
Inside Bingo Liner exist a lot of game options. You can buy additional bingo cards, turn the automatic dauber (aka Autoplay) on/off, or play video slots while you wait for the next bingo game to begin. To suit your personal preferences, you can also personalize the Bingo Liner interface.

Purchasing Bingo Cards
REQUIRED: To join a bingo game at Bingo Liner, you’ll have to purchase at least one bingo card.

You can buy bingo cards on the “Buy Cards” popup screen under the “Quick Buy” tab by clicking the predefined buttons (Minimum cards, 6, 12, 24, Maximum cards) or by selecting a set number of cards using the plus/minus arrows. The price of each card can be seen on the left-hand side of the the “Buy Cards” pop-up screen.

Selecting Bingo Cards
REQUIRED: To be able to play bingo at Bingo Liner, you have to buy at least one 90-ball bingo card.

On the “Buy Cards” pop-up screen under the “Select Cards” tab, you have the option to choose specific bingo cards to buy. You can either select cards one-by-one by clicking on them individually or you can select an entire row of cards by clicking on the “Select Row” button. After a card is selected, the colour turns to orange from grey.

Playing the Game
After you buy cards for a bingo game at Bingo Liner, you’ll then need to wait for the game to begin. You can monitor how much time is remaining until the game commences by watching the “Next Game” countdown, which appears on the left side of the Bingo Liner game interface.

New bingo games at Bingo Liner commence every few minutes – so you will not need to wait long for the next game to commence. While you’re waiting, you can play from directly within the game interface.

Once the bingo game begins, all game details will be visible in the information area at the top of the screen. For example, you’ll see the the jackpot and prize, total number of players, the winning pattern, etc.

TIP: Best Time to
If you are curious as to which days and hours specifically are the best times to play virtual bingo, keep reading…

As far as AM or PM is concerned, playing online bingo games at Bingo Liner at daybreak, lunch time, dark, or night, truly makes no difference at all. Although, some Bingo Liner players have suggested that the best days to play online tend to be on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s, during mid-week, and not at all on Monday’s. Regarding Saturday’s and Sunday’s, many remain strictly neutral.

Although there is no physical evidence to back up these speculations (on when is the best time to play online bingo), online bingo games providers like Bingo Liner assure its players that playing bingo online at any time, on any day, provides equal odds of winning bingo.

Daubing (or Auto-Daubing) Your Numbers
Bingo Liner’s bingo rooms let you decide whether you would like to daub your bingo card yourself manually (by using your mouse) or by having the Bingo Liner computer daub your cards automatically for you. Letting the system for you will ensure you don’t forget to daub a number.

On the “Buy Cards” pop-up screen under the “AutoPlay” tab, you can choose any of the bingo cards you purchased at Bingo Liner for autoplay functionality. Simply press the “Turn On” button and then checkmark the cards you would like to have auto-daubed. You can also switch off the autodaub feature at any time by removing the check-mark beside the card you selected for autoplay or by hitting the “Turn Off” button. Of course, you will still have the option to switch Autoplay back on anytime you choose.

Whether you daub your numbers manually or you get the system to autodaub for you, neither choice will change the result of the game. In the event that your bingo card be a winner, Bingo Liner will award you the prize and/or jackpot – signed, sealed, delivered!

Chat Whilst You Play Bingo!
Playing bingo at Bingo Liner is not just about playing your cards and counting your winnings… It’s also about chatting with other like-minded people and making new friendships!

That’s why live chat is such a stimulating aspect of playing bingo at Bingo Liner. As a matter of fact, chat room games go on in each 90-ball bingo room and are moderated by Chat Leaders. You can easily start a chat on the chat board by posting a message or just as easily quit a chat using the click of a button.

Bingo Liner’s Chat Hosts are always within reach to shoot the breeze and help out – all while keeping things entertaining. Just make sure you catch up on some first!

Winning B-I-N-G-O
You will be eligible to win a prize in 90-ball bingo at Bingo Liner if you hit B-I-N-G-O on any one of the following 3 patterns: One Line, Two Line and/or Full House.

1st place goes to the player that correctly marks off any horizontal line, the second place winner covers any two line pattern, and the “Full House” winner is the player that correctly marks off all three horizontal lines on their card.

If the winning pattern matches the pattern on your ticket, the game comes to an end and your Bingo Liner username will open up in a display window showing that you’re a winner of the game and the amount you’ve collected.

Your total winnings will then be credited to your Bingo Liner account.

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