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Overview:

Active Player:
Bingo Hall’s definition is of a customer that deposits, and plays with Bingo Hall on a regular basis.

Big Leagues bingo:
Weekly bingo contest that is played every Wednesday from 6 pm to 9 pm EST, it’s divided into 3 different sessions: $125 pots linked to a Progressive jackpot, normal Progressive Jackpot games of $35 each and a $1000 coverall that increases $100 every week until someone hits one of those calls or less.

Bingo:
A very popular game of chance that is played with special cards, they are distributed and numbered in squares of 5 x 5 rows.
The numbers are drawn out at random, and players cover those numbers if they have them on their cards. The way to win is by covering particular amount of the squares horizontally, diagonally or vertically.

Bingo buddy funds:
This is a fabulous option for Bingo Hall account holders to give their fellow bingo players a helping hand to help them play our real money games. Players are able to transfer money from the available cash balance in his/her account to another registered bingo hall player, once the funds are transferred they will be posted as bonus money which means that the recipient can use the money only to play not to cash out.

Bingo Call:
When ever a bingo player happens to get a certain bingo pattern or game variation, previously determined for a bingo game on his/her bingo card, then they must send a broadcast message to the Bingo hall game server which is known as a bingo call, as soon as possible to be recognized as the player with the winning game variation.

Bingo chat games:
These are short games played at the same time other bingo games are in progress, players play against each other to earn additional bonus comps.

Bingo game cards:
Representation of randomly set numbers between 1 and 75 arranged in 5 columns which contain 5 numbers each by five rows , the word bingo has numbers under each column that are arranged as follows:

• B: numbers between 1 -15
• I: numbers between 16-30
• N: 4 numbers and a free space numbers between 31-45
• G: numbers between 46-60
• O: numbers between 61-75

Bingo Games:
It’s the combination of the bingo patterns, the number of calls and prizes attached to the games make it appealing and enjoyable; since without a specific pattern there cannot be a game.

Bingo Hall Newsletter:
Weekly page that is posted on our site or emailed to players, which includes all the different specials, promotions and bonuses that will be running for the week in question.

Bingo Hall Referral program:
The best referral program in the industry can be found here; it’s very simple if you already have an account with Bingo Hall, and you have friends or family members that are bingo enthusiasts like you refer them to our site, after they register and enter your account id as the referral source, you are entitled to 20% of what ever amount they deposit in their accounts every time for up to 120 days.

Bingo patterns:
It is a particular shape that has to be formed with every number that is called in a specific bingo game, for example: An “A” pattern, a “Check” pattern, etc.

Birthday bonuses:
It’s a $25 bonus awarded to depositing players automatically, only during their birthday throughout the course of the day.

Bonus:

• $125 Blast:
  These are bingo sessions that last for an hour and they are played from 6:00 pm until 12:00 midnight on Tuesdays, these sessions are played only at the quarter’s stream room and include bingo games that hold a fixed $125 prize each. Players will have the option of combining these games along with the specials we have available on a regular basis (e.g.: Weekly and monthly specials coveralls and the games that are linked to our progressive jackpots).
• $250 Jackpot Specials:
  This Bingo Hall game special is played on Mondays at Bingo Hall’s High Rollers room, because the cards at this room are higher the fixed prize is set at $250. The jackpot specials can be combined with our regular weekly and monthly specials. We’ve also included a coverall which will have a guaranteed $500 prize.
• 150% sign up bonus:
  Bonus amount awarded to brand new customers on their 2 first deposits, as a company policy this bonus cannot be combined with any other promotions offered by Bingo Hall for example: our newsletter promotions, after the client receives the 150% on his first 2 deposits then he/she will be eligible to receive our other promotions.
• 250% Bonus:
  This bonus is awarded only on Mondays, but the following criteria must be met by our Bingo Hall players in order to earn this bonus promotion:
  • If the player had a payout processed during the same week they are requesting the bonus, he/she will receive a bonus based solely on their VIP status.
  • If the player had a payout processed a week prior to the one he/she’s requesting the 250% bonus he/she will receive a 200% bonus on Monday.
  • If the player did not process a payout during the same week or a week prior to when he/she’s requesting the bonus, will receive automatically a 200% bonus in his/her account plus an option will appear in the player’s account that will allow a manual credit of an extra 50% to his/her account as to complete the 250% bonus promotion.

Bonus rules:
Bingo Hall has a page set up to explain all the case scenarios for the different bonus that are offered at the site, this contains information concerning the minimum play requirements before Bingo Hall players can cash out on their bonuses about the type of games other than bingo where the bonus can be used, the wagering rules on free bonuses and other significant information regarding Bingo Hall’s different types of bonus.

Call:
When a player logs in his Bingo hall account to play bingo he will receive from time to time a broadcast message form the Bingo hall game server which will carry a number that was generated at random going from 1 to 75.

Chat Comps:
Its bonus awarded to bingo players for playing chat games that are organized in the different bingo rooms at the same time a regular bingo game is being played.

Chat Games:
These are games that are played on the side while a Bingo hall Bingo game is in progress, by the chat monitors or CM’s, which will inform the players about the game that is being played by typing and pasting the information within the chat room.

Chat Specials:
Promotions that can be announced in the Bingo Hall weekly newsletter or they can be part of daily bingo special promotion. These chat specials award players with bonuses and they can be played at specific hours and rooms.

CM’s or Chat Monitors:
Chat Monitors are the ones in charge of the chat games; they are easy to spot, since they usually type capitalized red text messages, they are in charge of keeping things in order in the chat room.

Credit card authorization form:
This is a document that is required from the Bingo Hall customers who deposited using a credit card (Visa or MasterCard) and need or want to withdraw the winnings out of their accounts.
This document is just like a voucher where clients are accepting the purchases made on the Bingo Hall website with their credit cards.
Our clients can download this document directly from our site in PDF or HTML format, to scan it and later email or E-fax it at their convenience.

Deposit options:
Bingo Hall has available at its bingo players disposal many easy and quick deposit options to fund their Bingo accounts and have them playing in no time.
Among the deposit options available we have:

• Credit cards (Visa, MasterCard)
• Ewallet express
• Ecocard
• Click2pay
• Neteller
• Instadebit

At the Bingo Hall banking section we explain how every deposit option works in full detail.

FREE money bonus:
This is the best type of promotion for the Bingo hall players it’s a promotion where a bonus is deposited in the players account and it does not require for he/she send in funds before the bonus is appears in the players account.

Game purchase:
A game purchase occurs when a player logs in his bingo account at the Bingo Hall website and uses funds that he/she previously deposited in their account at their convenience and was validated successfully to buy bingo cards.
A game purchase must be made in United States currency.

Game Specials:
They are daily bingo promotions that are set up according to the day of the week with unique titles, depending on the day of the week where in it will feature specific game specials, which will be hosted at a precise bingo room and hour.

Game Variation:
Bingo Hall’s game variation is a particular bingo game pattern that a player must obtain in order to be eligible to win a game and be rewarded with a prize.

Get Crazy Fridays:
Bingo game special played on Fridays from 6:00 pm to 2:00 am EST at the Quarter Stream room with over the top jackpots of 50%.

Jackpot Alley Night:
Jackpot game special played on Fridays; it’s divided in 3 sets of jackpot games starting with:

• $50 jackpots with 12 cards max from 6:00 am to 8:00 am EST.
• Then from 8:00 am till 10:00 am EST only progressive jackpots are played.
• And from 10:00 am till 12:00 EST pm $25 jackpots.

Keno:
Keno is a game that is very similar to bingo, in the effect that it uses a circular container which encloses 80 ping pong shaped balls that are mixed within that container, thanks to a blower that pushes air in it helping to the process.
The keno caller pushes a button and the balls are drawn randomly through a tube called the rabbit ears, 20 balls are drawn in total, the keno wager calculations are based on the numbers that were drawn along with the 20 numbers the players choose from the 80 available in the keno tickets that they purchase.
There’s a payout range, and that changes depending on the casino, but the standard keno payout is based on the amount of numbers that match the ones that were drawn and were chosen by the player on his keno ticket. If the keno player picks a lot numbers the match the ones that were drawn out the larger the keno prize will be.

Minimum Withdrawal Amount:
Bingo Hall established as minimum cash out amount for its players the sum of $50.

Monday Night at the Movies:
Bingo game special played on Mondays from 6:00 pm till 2:00 am EST; players must get the following game patterns:

• Movie Projector.
• Popcorn.
• Chair
• And "The Blob"

This game special holds a $15 initial jackpot and will give out an added 15% payout.

Password:
It’s a confidential and personal control access that Bingo Hall players select and create at their own discretion, when ever a Bingo Hall player wants to access his account to play games, withdraw funds, etc he/she needs to type in the password along with their account alias to gain access to review anything in their accounts.

Player account:
It’s a multi purpose feature that players are required to have, without a Bingo Hall player account players will not be able to have their winnings deposited in order to have the option of cashing them out, let’s not forget the player account is essential in regards to depositing funds which allows players to purchase into games.

Prize:
This is a monetary reward that Bingo Hall offers our active customers and is deposited immediately in their account, when ever they inform by way of a Bingo Call that they have a game variation on their game card that coincides with the one that is in play.
If there is more than one lucky winner, the prize will be split evenly among those Bingo Hall winners.

Progressive Jackpot:
Progressive Jackpots are big prizes awarded to player(s) whom are able to win a progressive pattern within a certain amount of calls; this jackpot as the name says it, is progressive and accumulates due to players contributions towards it.
The amount or percentage of this contribution will vary, according to the room customers choose to play in, each bingo room will have a minimum jackpot setup by the house and the jackpot will start to build on this set amount.
These are the starting jackpot prizes players will find at the different Bingo Hall bingo rooms:

• Nickels Room jackpot prize $50
• Dimes Room jackpot prize $125
• Fair and Square Room jackpot prize $250
• Quarter’s Room jackpot prize $375.
• High Rollers Room jackpot prize $750
• Big Leagues Room jackpot prize $1000

Progressive Night at Bingo Hall:
Bingo game special played on Mondays from 6:00 pm till 12:00 am EST, this special is held a t the Quarter Stream room, all of the games are progressive jackpot games, this special does not include the weekly and monthly specials or the coveralls, these last games are played every hour.

Pull tabs:
Pull tabs are cards or tickets that are very similar to a lottery scratch off ticket, the basics of the scratch off tickets are to purchase the amount that you wish and scratch through them to reveal the hidden combinations of numbers, symbols or both, the computerized version works just like that you purchase a pull tab card and click on the button that uncovers the pull tab ticket to see if you got the winning combination. As it is with any game of chance the prizes are shell out randomly so the more pull tabs tickets you purchase the more your chances of winning will increase.

Quick Buy:
This a very useful option for Bingo Hall players the at moment they’re getting ready to purchase bingo cards after the room is fully loaded on their computers, by clicking on the “Quick Buy” button it chooses the number of cards for them (min 3 max 24).

Required wager qualifications:
These are the required wager amounts that Bingo hall customers must acquire before they are able to take money out the winnings of their real money account balance; the wagering requisites are the following: bingo hall players must play a minimum of 3 times the amount of their purchase before a bonus is added to their account. Another way to explain it is that the players must spend no less than 95% of their cash balance if they want to meet the minimum wager qualifications to cash money out.

Slots:
These are the famous machines that are all over land based casinos they are easy to spot since you will see a lot of senior citizens playing them.
The land based slots are coin operated you put in coins pull on the handle and wait for a combination of symbols or pictures to line up, the computer version has the same concept just that you click on a button and wait to see the final line up. Some combinations are rewarded with prizes usually cash.

Supersized Jackpot Night at Bingo Hall:
Bingo game special played on Tuesdays and it’s divided in 3 different sessions:

• From 6:00 am till 8:00 am EST $50 Jackpots at Quarter Stream room
• From 8:00 am till 10:00 am EST Only Progressive Jackpots at Quarter Stream room (this means that this specific progressive jackpot will be applied just to the game pattern that is being played at the time and room mentioned previously)
• From 10:00 am till 12:00 pm EST $25 Jackpots/ Nickels cards at the Dime stream room (this means that the price of the cards will be of $0.05 cents instead of the regular $0.10 cents).

Tortoise and Hare race:
This is a game special played on Thursdays from 6:00 pm till 2:00 am at the Quarters Stream room; it has a minimum starting jackpot prize that is set by the house at $25 which will increase, thanks to the amount of cards purchased by the players plus a percentage that the house will include as well.
All of the prizes in this game will be awarded to players that hit the following game variations only: turtle, rabbit ears, crazy outside line, and fox patterns.

Toys for Tuesdays:
Bingo game special played on Tuesdays from 6:00 pm till 2:00 am EST, and in order for players to win an extra 50% on the current jackpot, they must get the Jack in the box, Teetor-Totter and kite bingo game patterns.

Triple Part Games:
This is a Thursday night bingo game special that is played from 6:00 pm till 12:00 midnight EST, and all patterns are divided in 3 different part games:

• First a Progressive jackpot
• Second a High payout
• And third a Fixed payout of $50.

Triple Variety Night:
Great bingo game special scheduled for Thursdays as the name of the special claims it has 3 different game sessions:

• Starting with $50 jackpots with 12 card max from 6:00 am till 8:00 am EST at the quarter stream room.
• Then only progressive jackpots from 8:00 am till 10:00 am EST at the quarter stream room
• Finally $25 jackpots /Nickels cards from 10:00 am till 12:00 pm EST at the dime stream room.

User ID:
This User ID is a unique username that Bingo Hall assigns to a customer after he/she registers an account with us as way to better identify the customers.

Valid account information:
This refers to the personal information provided by our Bingo Hall Customers, such as name, home address, phone number, email address etc at the moment the register his/her bingo player account, Bingo Halls’ Risk Management Department will perform from time to time the necessary verifications to assure that the given information is valid, and if that is not the case Bingo Hall can and will cancel any or all of the winnings in that specific account.

Video Poker:
It’s a casino game that was inspired in the five card draw poker game where the player is dealt 5 cards face down and he’s given a draw or option, to change them in order to get a higher hand. The computer will analyze the hand in this case the highest hand will win.

VIP level:
The moment a player joins Bingo Hall and starts playing any of the games offered at our site, automatically he/she is placed in level 1 out of the 11 that were established for our VIP program, Bingo Hall players can double check in two separate charts available at our site where it displays on one the amount of points required to obtain a certain VIP level, and on the other chart the amount of money and the game type he/she will need to wager on to receive a specific amount of points.

VIP points:
Bingo Hall created it’s VIP program as a way to award clients with great bonuses based on their VIP level, the way players can increase their level is by gathering VIP points these points are awarded according to the game type and the amount of money players must play to earn one VIP point, the amount of money that players must invest in order to earn VIP points changes every 4 months depending on the activity a certain game type has in other words the more activity flow a game has the more money must be played to earn one VIP point the less activity a game has the less money must be invested to earn a VIP point.

Which way will you go:
An hourly bingo patterns game special played on Wednesdays from 6:00 pm till 2:00 am at the Quarter Stream room players must get any one of the following patterns: All Crazy Arrow, Up Arrow, Up and Down Arrow and Right Arrow for a guaranteed jackpot of $75 to $100.

Withdrawal request submission:
This submission can be placed at anytime by our Bingo Hall account holders we do recommend bingo hall customers to submit their withdrawal request before Sunday at 11:59 am EST for it to be recorded in our system, but it must be noted that withdrawals can be processed once every week and on Mondays by our accounting department at a rate of one withdrawal per household multiple payout requests will not be approved.