Buy-in - The minimum cost to play bingo. This varies by bingo hall.  The buy-in is $6 per person (2 packets on OWLS). "Special sessions" may differ.

PhD's - The full color handsets used at Sunset Bingo which "daub" and keep track or all your bingo cards for you. The common name for electronic bingo.

Dauber - A tube of transparent ink for marking bingo cards.

Flashboard - The board containing illuminated numbers that show the numbers called during a bingo game. Sunset Bingo has ten Flashboards around the hall for the regular games, and two more for the Bonanza games.

Free Space - The space in the middle of all bingo cards that is “free” to the player and is considered “called.” Free spaces usually count towards winning a bingo game. Some bingo games are won by playing “the hardway” or without the benefit of the Free Space.

Mark 75 - A type of throwaway card that has every number from 1 through 75 on each sheet. Each number appears one time only on Mark 75s.

Pattern Games - A design that can be drawn on a bingo card and is declared the pattern to win a particular bingo game. Dozens of Pattern Games can be played.

Throwaways - Games not included in regular buy-in packets. Any one of several extra bingo games that are played during a bingo session. See Earlybirds, Late Games and Bonanzas.

Work Up Games - Games that are played enroute to a blackout. The caller identifies the type of Workup game or games to be played at the beginning of the blackout game. Since blackouts usually take 55-65 numbers before a player bingos, the Workup Games are ones that are usually won in less than 40 numbers.