Home > Industry/Domain > Games > Bingo

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.

Industry: Games

Add a new term

Contributors in Bingo

Bingo

Hopper

Games; Bingo

A rotating container where the lottery balls labelled one through 49 are placed that continually mixes the balls.

Instant game

Games; Bingo

A lottery ticket that requires the player to remove a latex coating to determine if the ticket is a winner. Also called 'Scratch-off Game' or 'Scratcher'.

Cold number

Games; Bingo

A cold number is a lotto number that has not hit for a long time.

Wheel

Games; Bingo

Wheel is lotto slang used as a noun and a verb when referring to the wheeling system of lotto play.

Bias

Games; Bingo

A bias is something that has gone on too long or has gone too far out of line from the norm in lotto. To identify a bias, you must know what is the norm (the expected or the average), to have a point ...

Average skips

Games; Bingo

Average skips tells the average number of drawings skipped between hits for each lotto numbers. Average skips are calculated by taking the sum of all the skips for a lotto number and dividing by the ...

Bell curve

Games; Bingo

A bell curve is the normal distribution, also called Gaussian distribution. The Bell curve is an extremely important probability distribution in many fields. It is often called the bell curve because ...

Featured blossaries

The art economy

Category: Arts   1 7 Terms

Programming Languages

Category: Languages   2 17 Terms