The basics of bingo are pretty simple. Get the right numbers before the other guy and yell bingo. But with so many bingo halls out there, it's good to keep a few other things in mind. As the saying goes, "knowledge is power." You don't want to miss your bingo due to an avoidable error. This episode suggests a few things to keep in mind.
[00:00:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Intro Hello and welcome to the Broke Bingo Addict.
[00:00:12] [SPEAKER_00]: This is a podcast that ventures through the wild and crazy world of bingo.
[00:00:17] [SPEAKER_00]: This is much more than your grandmother's bingo.
[00:00:20] [SPEAKER_00]: My name's Shari and welcome to this week's episode, which as always is for entertainment
[00:00:26] [SPEAKER_00]: purposes only.
[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Hi and welcome to this week's episode of the Broke Bingo Addict.
[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Now for this week's episode, what I'm going to talk about are what I think are some key
[00:00:36] [SPEAKER_00]: do or don'ts when you're playing bingo.
[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them I know I might have touched on before but I absolutely think all of these
[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_00]: things bear repeating.
[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not in any particular order, just a few things that have come to mind over
[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: the past few weeks that seeming to pop up as things that should be pointed out
[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: to people.
[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_00]: So one of the first things I want to talk about is when you're going to a bingo hall,
[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: particularly when it's a new bingo hall, don't play too many packs.
[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't take on more things than you can handle and I think this is important,
[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_00]: like I said, in a place you've never been before.
[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_00]: A couple places come to mind and obviously the first one would be the bingo club.
[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: It cracks me up.
[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I go to the bingo club and I see people who've never been there before and even
[00:01:21] [SPEAKER_00]: there are people who've played bingo a lot.
[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I think I was one of those people too who think that they can handle several
[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_00]: packs because they've been playing bingo for a while and they think they're
[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: pretty good at it and the bingo club tends to play these little four on
[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: packs and you think, well, that's not a lot.
[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I can handle more than that.
[00:01:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of people tend to get three of those packs and I think the average
[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_00]: is generally two but if you haven't been there before or you have no idea
[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_00]: how fast the bingo club can call, okay, it is crazy fast.
[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: For bingo, I think it's only a few seconds, maybe five or six seconds
[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: between each number, maybe not even that long.
[00:01:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not honestly sure.
[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I just know that it is fast and it cracks me up when I see people,
[00:02:02] [SPEAKER_00]: particularly people who come there, they have no idea what it is.
[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: They're coming to the bingo club because they want to play bingo.
[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_00]: They're in town or they've seen it or whatever and they thought,
[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: let me go to this bingo place and play bingo and they have
[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_00]: absolutely new idea and they start getting freaked out about how fast it
[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: goes and I'm telling you every single time somebody in that group
[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_00]: or that person or whatever goes, slow down and it's like you do not know
[00:02:25] [SPEAKER_00]: where the hell you are.
[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: They are not slowing down at the bingo club but outside of the bingo club,
[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I know that even when you go to other places, if you haven't been there
[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_00]: before and you don't know how fast the bingo caller is going to call,
[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: you should really stick with just the basics, maybe one or two packs
[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: until you know what the rhythm is at that particular bingo hall because
[00:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: you're definitely outside of the bingo club, there are places that some
[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_00]: of the callers call fast, some of the callers call slow and you just kind
[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: of need to know what it is so you don't get overwhelmed.
[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So you're not missing a bingo because one, you couldn't mark it fast enough
[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: or two, you just got completely lost on what's going on and I think
[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: about there are some places that call particularly slow and I like it.
[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that Cry Help is a place where they called Reasonably Slow,
[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_00]: which by the way is my number one place.
[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're new at playing bingo, my number one recommendation,
[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: if you live in the Southern California area is to go to Cry Help Bingo.
[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: They have a nice program, they play nice and slow, they have a reasonable
[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_00]: amount of pull tabs and strips so it's a very good place to get started.
[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I like to go there anyway, but definitely a good place to get started
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_00]: if you haven't played bingo before and you're just really not sure
[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_00]: of all the kind of things that go on.
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So that said, one of the other things with your new person or even
[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_00]: again, you're an old player.
[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to a new place, please don't show up just before they're
[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_00]: getting ready to play bingo.
[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Like somebody says, oh, I'm going to go to this such and such bingo hall
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_00]: and the bingo game actually starts at six o'clock.
[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't show up at five 30.
[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to do things when you go into a bingo hall.
[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: You've got to need to buy your packs.
[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to need to find a place to sit.
[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_00]: You got to just figure out the landscape.
[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to try to figure out what the program is.
[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: What are all the things that they're going to play?
[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Is it going to be more than just your basic bingo or do they have any
[00:04:17] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of side games, do they have computers?
[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you need to find that stuff out.
[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So it cracks me up when I see people come in at the last minute
[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and they have no idea.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: And now are you in a new place and you don't know what's going on,
[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_00]: but now you're behind the game because you have not gotten yourself
[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: prepared for the situation.
[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know where you're going to sit.
[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know all this other stuff that's going on.
[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So please do yourself a favor, particularly if it's a place that
[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_00]: opens up early.
[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of bingo halls or most of the bingo halls that I've
[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: gone to tend to open up at least two hours before they start playing.
[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you can and you have the ability to go there early,
[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_00]: please do yourself a favor, go there early, get yourself situated
[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: so you're nice, relaxed, you're ready to play the game and you're
[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: not having to spend the entire next few hours asking people questions.
[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, what's this?
[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: What's that?
[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: You've taken the time to figure out some of that information.
[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not a problem for you.
[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_00]: The other thing I want to mention is do not take more
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: money than you intend to spend.
[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Actually should probably put this one first because this one's a biggie.
[00:05:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Big O is so expensive sometimes.
[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, there are a lot of places again, I think cry help
[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: is a reasonable place where you don't end up spending too much money,
[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_00]: but there's so many places that could take every last dive.
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And I can't say for everybody, but I do know for the majority of people,
[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_00]: the pool tabs or the flash or the safari, whatever you want to call them
[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: are incredibly addicting.
[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So you get there and you think, oh no, I'm only going to spend this much money.
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I've taken out enough money for my buy-in.
[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I've taken out enough money to buy a few tabs or play a few extra games.
[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And you get there and you get into the moment, you get into the momentum
[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and they start bringing out more things for you to do, you know,
[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_00]: more pool tabs or flash, whatever.
[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And you just think, OK, I like that game or I might win that game,
[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: whatever it is that that gambling instinct inside you gets you
[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: to the point where you want to spend more money.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And trust me, that bingo hall is going to let you spend more money.
[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to have a little ATM thing
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: where they can give it to you right there at your seat
[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_00]: or they're going to have a machine somewhere where you can go get it.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You are going to be able to get more money.
[00:06:27] [SPEAKER_00]: So my thought about that is always just take the amount of money
[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_00]: that you want to spend.
[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And then if you have a credit card or if you have extra money,
[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: leave that at home so you make sure you don't go over your budget.
[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's hard.
[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It is so, so hard not to get swept up
[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_00]: and spending more money than you want to spend.
[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But trust me, in the long run, it pays off.
[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: The other thing, don't let other people intimidate you.
[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, I say this because I think about the times when people call bingo,
[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_00]: whether you're new to the game of bingo
[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: or whether you're a longtime bingo player.
[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I think about all the times when somebody has called bingo
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and when they showed up on the screen, they say, oh, no bingo.
[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And the person is kind of adamant.
[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_00]: No, I definitely do have bingo.
[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And people start getting mad because it's taking a long time
[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: to kind of verify it and they don't see it.
[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, you know, move on, move on, move on.
[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Don't get intimidated because sometimes you're right.
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times you're looking at your screen
[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and it looks like you don't have the bingo,
[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_00]: but you don't realize that there was a number previously,
[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: not necessarily the last number that was called.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But previously, somewhere in the game,
[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_00]: there was a number that was called, say, G52.
[00:07:41] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, and that was part of your bingo.
[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And people are like, you don't have it, you don't have it.
[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_00]: But you realize that G52 actually was called.
[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But the bingo caller either put the number in the wrong slot
[00:07:52] [SPEAKER_00]: or didn't push it down or whatever.
[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And you need to take the time just to verify that if you're pretty sure
[00:07:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and make sure that that's not what the situation was.
[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: So I know people get irritated, I get irritated too.
[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_00]: But I'd rather have people be ticked at me than to lose money
[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_00]: because somebody else made an error.
[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, going along that same thought process,
[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: you want to make sure that you're doing everything you can
[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_00]: to make sure that you have a valid bingo.
[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: So you need to make sure that you know the rules
[00:08:23] [SPEAKER_00]: of whatever the bingo hall is that you're playing at.
[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I know there are a lot of places that have particular rules
[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_00]: about how you have to mark things.
[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And I know I've absolutely mentioned this before,
[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: but some places allow you to use a pen.
[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Some places allow you to not dab at all.
[00:08:38] [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen places where you don't have to mark anything
[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: as long as you know what have it.
[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Most places require you to use a dauber.
[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, but whatever it is,
[00:08:46] [SPEAKER_00]: you need to make sure that you know the rules of the place.
[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Because like I said, I have mentioned this before.
[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I was playing at the bingo club and they have a game
[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_00]: that's a large letter X, OK?
[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It's on that little four card pack that you have.
[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_00]: You have to make an X that goes all the way across both sides.
[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of hard to see visually.
[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's just you get confused.
[00:09:05] [SPEAKER_00]: At least I would get confused.
[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_00]: So what I would do is I would take a pen
[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and I would draw the X across the page.
[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And I did that so many times.
[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I cannot tell you how often I did that.
[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Whenever I played the game, that's what I did.
[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I would draw that X.
[00:09:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, as it turned out, I never won that game.
[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: But at one point, somebody was sitting next to me
[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_00]: and they said, the bingo club does not allow you to do that.
[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: You can do it with a dauber.
[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Like you can use the edge of your dauber and make that line.
[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_00]: But you cannot do it with a pen.
[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I have no idea what the reason behind that was.
[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody said that there was something about cheating somehow
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_00]: that you could do with the pen.
[00:09:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, I don't know how that works.
[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_00]: But for whatever reason, you could do it with the dauber.
[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't do it with a pen.
[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So you need to find that kind of stuff out before you go there.
[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, the same thing.
[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, a lot of people let you use your pen for your pool tabs.
[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of people say no, you absolutely have to daub that.
[00:09:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So you don't want to lose your money.
[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to lose your bingo over some kind of misunderstanding
[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: of that level.
[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing that kind of happened to me recently, too,
[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: is I want people to be aware of this.
[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And they say it all the time.
[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: So this is not a secret.
[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Do not assume that the bingo caller hears you when you say bingo.
[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I was again playing someplace a few weeks ago.
[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And I won.
[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And I thought I was pretty loud with my little bingo
[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_00]: because I get excited.
[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't win that often that I don't get excited
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: and try to yell as loud as I possibly can.
[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But I wasn't the only person that won.
[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So they did stop the game.
[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_00]: But then they went over to somebody else on the other side of the room
[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_00]: and they start reading the numbers.
[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And the bingo caller was like, is there anybody else?
[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And I got up again.
[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, bingo.
[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But then there was another person.
[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So they went over to that other person
[00:10:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and they start reading the numbers for that person
[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and verifying that they won.
[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And again, the bingo caller goes, is there anybody else?
[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_00]: I had to literally get up and go over to the verify and go, yes.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_00]: So for like the rest of the night, I was like,
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to get up and stand up because for whatever reason,
[00:11:04] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm particularly quiet,
[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_00]: but for whatever reason, they couldn't hear me.
[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: All the people around me were very surprised, too.
[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_00]: But it can happen.
[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to lose your bingo because they didn't hear you.
[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_00]: If you have a soft voice and you know you have a soft voice,
[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_00]: then you need to get one of those little horns or something
[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_00]: or make sure the people around you can call for you.
[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: But you don't want to lose your bingo because of the mere fact
[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: that they don't hear you.
[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And they say that all the time.
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They've got those machines right there.
[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I've never sat up on the counter or anything,
[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: but they say those balls are really, really loud.
[00:11:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes it's hard for them to hear.
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt.
[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_00]: But I still don't want to lose my bingo.
[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: So you should absolutely hop up and make sure that they hear your bingo.
[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You also want to make sure in that same vein
[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_00]: that you know whether you're playing at a place that lets you yell bingo
[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_00]: after the fact.
[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I have to tell you, I can't stand this.
[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_00]: This makes me crazy.
[00:12:02] [SPEAKER_00]: But they absolutely do this in places in Vegas.
[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think there are other places that do it, too.
[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And what I'm talking about is there are places that let you yell bingo.
[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And when?
[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Even after the next number is called.
[00:12:14] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so for most bingo players, we're aware of the fact that if you have
[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_00]: your bingo on, say, B12 and before you can yell bingo,
[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_00]: they yell G60, you've lost your bingo.
[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, you have the time between when they say your number
[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and when they call the next number to yell your bingo.
[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_00]: But there are some places that they could say five numbers.
[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They could say the whole yard.
[00:12:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't notice your bingo until they've gone through
[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_00]: just a ton of numbers, you still win, which again, I absolutely cannot stand.
[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's the worst thing in the world.
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just it's just not fair.
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You need to do that.
[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean, sometimes it would help me just the other day.
[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I almost lost a bingo, which, as you know, we call sleeping.
[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: So I almost slept a bingo and I was happy I didn't.
[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_00]: But I definitely was aware of the fact that if I didn't yell as fast
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_00]: as I could before they start it, by the way, it's not even saying the next number.
[00:13:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's before they start to say the next number.
[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I would have lost that bingo, which is, by the way, also happened
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_00]: to have been on a cashball, so I would have been sick.
[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So one of the dos that I want to mention is that if you've got a pack,
[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_00]: whether it's a four pack or six pack or a nine pack,
[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a big advocate of people doing things to mark their individual boxes
[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_00]: when they know they've had whatever the pattern was or whatever you needed
[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_00]: to form a bingo for that particular square.
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, so if you're playing a game that's like four card crazy or four card
[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_00]: jamboree or four card six pack, whatever it is that you're playing
[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and you have a set number of squares that you need to get,
[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I am again a big advocate of making sure that you have some way to indicate
[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_00]: that you don't need that square anymore.
[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, some people just do like a line
[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_00]: or some people just do like a daub or something.
[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_00]: But I really think it helps to have something visual that you can cover it.
[00:14:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And trust me, there's a lot of things out there.
[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_00]: When I first started playing bingo,
[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I used to use playing cards, just regular everyday playing cards,
[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and I would just cover whatever that square was.
[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So I know I didn't need that.
[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And now I use little gold chips
[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_00]: that I have or other things that people have given me.
[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And there are a ton of people, like I said, out there who sell these things
[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_00]: that you can get to cover it.
[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason I say this is that sometimes you don't see like a little daub
[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_00]: or something, you don't realize it.
[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And you might need four or something or three or something.
[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And you don't realize that you don't have it.
[00:14:39] [SPEAKER_00]: It's just so much easier to realize
[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_00]: that you have the amount that you need by the fact that you've covered up
[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_00]: your square. So I'm a big fan of using something to cover that up.
[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So you can visually do that, particularly if you're playing a lot of packs.
[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: If you've got all these packs like Carla, Carla out there with their like
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: 82 packs, you don't have to worry about whether you daub something.
[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You can see because you've got all these little indicators on top of the square.
[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, you have the amount that you need.
[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And please, please do yourself a favor.
[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_00]: If you have any time at all, if they're calling for verifying
[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: something else or whatever, any kind of pause, please be sure to always
[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_00]: check your numbers because there's sometimes when you're looking
[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: for a pattern and you're so busy concentrating on a particular number.
[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, absolutely has happened to me.
[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And I just saw it happen to somebody else.
[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_00]: You're so busy realizing that in this square over here, you just need,
[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, in 32 to give you your bingo.
[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_00]: But you forget in all that time
[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: that they've been calling numbers that you've formed another area where you
[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_00]: have the possibility. So always keep a lookout because it's like, oh,
[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was going to get bingo on this in 32.
[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_00]: But if I paid attention, I realize I also only needed G 56.
[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_00]: And then it's like, oh, son of a gun, they call G 56.
[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're not paying attention, you don't realize that people
[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_00]: absolutely get fixated sometimes on just one particular number
[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_00]: that they've seen that they know that they need.
[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And they miss the opportunity that they have for some other number.
[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_00]: But also keep an eye out on that, because sometimes just in general,
[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: you might miss a number.
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I've had that one time I had a game where it was
[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_00]: a wild number and the wild number was eight.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And you go through and you think you're marking all your eight.
[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_00]: You think you're marking whatever that wild number is,
[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, all the numbers ending with it.
[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And you think you have it and then you realize you've missed something.
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And I did that one time and I missed a bingo because, boom,
[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: the easiest number of all, the freaking wild number.
[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And I missed it on one card.
[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And that was the car that actually had a bingo on it.
[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And therefore I lost.
[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So you want to take the time when you're doing stuff and scanning just
[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: to make sure go back and check to make sure there's no numbers
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: that you've lost, because sometimes you absolutely get so boggled down,
[00:16:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess is the word.
[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if it's boggled down, but you just get distracted by other stuff.
[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And it really is incredibly easy not to see a number
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: that's right out there in front of your face.
[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing you want to do is you want to check your pool tabs.
[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, I know this is something that's relatively new.
[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have this, what, 20 years ago or whatever.
[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_00]: But we all know that we play a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: of pool tabs these days and strips as well.
[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But in particular right now, something that I've seen happen
[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and it's been happening a lot lately is people having a winning ticket
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and accidentally throwing it away.
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's primarily a whole ticket because what's become really popular
[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: are you've got your spare change, you've got your leftovers,
[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: you've got your banana splits, you've got the piece of the pie
[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: or rest of the pie, whatever that is.
[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But there are a lot of these pool tabs out there right now
[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_00]: that are super popular where there's two parts.
[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the one part is where you get the hold,
[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: where it says that you get the rest of the pie,
[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: where it says you get the spare change,
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_00]: where it says you get the leftovers.
[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's the other part where you get the numbers
[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and it's whoever wins that number.
[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And then depending on how much they win determines
[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_00]: whoever has the whole ticket, how much they win.
[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, what I've seen lately are people
[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_00]: accidentally throwing away the whole ticket.
[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, come on people,
[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_00]: if you get something that looks a little different
[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: than what everybody else has,
[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_00]: if you're not sure what it is, please, please, please, please, please,
[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: please ask a question.
[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Do not throw this stuff away.
[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Set it aside so you can have a chance to ask the question.
[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm telling you, this has happened like,
[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: what, three or four or five times in the last month or so
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_00]: where they've had people going, OK, who's got the hold?
[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Who's got the hold?
[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And then having to say, well,
[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_00]: if you don't claim the hold by such and such
[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and then people are losing money.
[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_00]: That's too much money, people.
[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Too much money.
[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I think the least amount that I've seen for those is like $300.
[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Come on. And it goes up to a thousand dollars.
[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen the hold for, what is it, spare change?
[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_00]: It's got a hold that goes up to the possibility of a thousand dollars.
[00:19:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And people are, no, no, you need to pay attention.
[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: You need to hold on these things.
[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't know, please ask questions.
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And that's my other thing again, too, like I said,
[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: please don't go late.
[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Get there as early as you can.
[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to a new place or if you haven't been there at all
[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: and wherever you are, please, if you're not sure,
[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: ask as many questions as you can, preferably before the game gets started.
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But you want to make sure that you have a full understanding of what's
[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: going on because you don't want to miss your bingo.
[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Last but not least, I want to talk about the fact that you want
[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: to check around if you're going to a place.
[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: What's very common is tipping.
[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, nobody has to tip.
[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, nobody's going to make you tip.
[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_00]: But you want to make sure that you've asked what is the custom there?
[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: How does tipping go?
[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: There are some places I know that won't let you tip,
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: but you want to make sure that you know what the custom is so you can do
[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: what is appropriate and, you know, spread the love people.
[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're talking about.
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Spread the love.
[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: So anyways, there are a lot more things that I'm sure that can be
[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: touched upon and maybe some of you out there can email me or whatever and let me
[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_00]: know what your thoughts are.
[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But these are just some of the things that I think that people should keep
[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_00]: in mind when they're going to go play bingo.
[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: All right. So let me know if you agree or don't agree with some of them or if
[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: you have any things that you think should be added to these lists.
[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: OK, anyway, for now, I'd like to thank you so much for listening
[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_00]: to this week's episode of The Broke Bingo Addict.
[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And as always, I hope you'll come listen to the next one.
[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: In the meantime, take care. Thanks.