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Bingo

A game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares on which to place markers when the respective numbers are drawn and announced by a caller. The first player to mark a complete row of numbers is the winner.

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Rollover

Games; Bingo

An event that occurs when the lottery jackpot or a jackpot game is not won. The jackpot thus 'rolls over' to the next drawing, resulting in a bigger jackpot for that drawing.

Pulltabs

Games; Bingo

A game similar to the lottery game. Tickets sell for 25 cents or 50 cents or even more and typically offer prizes ranging from free tickets to $500. Each ticket has perforated windows which open ...

Quick pick

Games; Bingo

A random selection of numbers made by computer. (Also, Lucky Dip)

Hit

Games; Bingo

A hit is when a number appears in the official lotto drawing for a game and is therefore a winning number or has hit.

Expected hits

Games; Bingo

Expected hits are the number of hits each number would have had, if all numbers had hit an equal number of times.

Keepers

Games; Bingo

Keepers are lotto numbers that you should play based on trends.

Double bottom

Games; Bingo

A double bottom occurs when a lotto number, which has not hit for several drawings, hits, then loses an equal amount of drawings and hits again.

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