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75 Ball Bingo - 75 Ball Bingo is the most popular form of bingo in the USA and Canada.The games name comes for the 75 balls (numbered 1-75 which are used to play each game). To play you need to purchase between 1-24 cards and the object of the game is to be the first player to bingo on the pattern that is pre selected at the start of each game. Patterns for 75 ball bingo include coverall, heart and flower.
90 Ball Bingo - This is the UK's favourite Bingo game. It has been something of a national institution since the 1960s and is played in Bingo Halls nationwide. The games name comes from the 90 balls (numbered 1-90) used in the game. To play 90 ball bingo you will need to purchase between 1 and 24 tickets. Each ticket has three horizontal lines of five numbers, meaning each card has 15 numbers.
The object of the game is to complete three successful patterns, the first being a single line across, the second two lines across, and the third for all numbers on the strip, commonly known as a full house. The prize increases in value for each successful pattern with the games jackpot awarded to the first player to complete a Full House.
Aqua Pay - The secure online banking service used by Foxy Bingo to process all of our players financial transactions.
Balance Details - Part of the members area his allows you to view your current balance on Foxy Bingo, along with details on your winnings wagers and payouts.
BPs - BPs stand for Bingo Points which can be exchanged for bingo cards. There are numerous ways to win bingo points which include referring a friend, submitting a player profile and purchasing cards. The points for purchasing cards are as follows.
10p card purchase- 1 point per card
25p card purchase- 2 points per card
50p card purchase- 5 points per card
£1 card purchase- 10 points per card
There are also plenty of points up for grabs in our chat room games, details of which are in the chat room games section of this glossary.
Cashcade - The company that owns Foxy Bingo and our sister sites including Get Minted and Foxy Flutter. More about Cashcade can be found on our website at www.cashcade.co.uk.
Card - A card is what you purchase to play bingo. All cards are randomly generated at the time you request them. To play in a game you must purchase at least 1 card. Card prices range between 10p and £1. If you do not like the numbers of your issued cards, you can simply click the GET NEW CARDS button to get issued with a new batch.
Chat Lingo - WTG, WD and BRB are three of the most common phrases used in our chat rooms. To find out what these and an array of others stand for please click here
Chat Rooms Foxy Bingo is renowned for its fun chat rooms. In the rooms you can talk to other players, ask questions with our chat moderators, and play games to earn loyalty points and ultimately meet and make new friends. Foxy members who chat together have created a wonderful online community.
Each of the chat rooms are connected to a bingo game room of the same name and his its own CM.
In addition to these rooms we also have The Lobby which you is where you land when you first log into Foxy Bingo. The lobby is open 24 hours a day but does not have a bingo games room attached to it.
Chat Room Games Chat Room Games are a great way of winning extra bingo points and are played every hour on Foxy Bingo. There are currently 13 different games played throughout the day on Foxy.
CMs - CM is the abbreviation for Chat Manager. Chat Managers monitor our chat rooms, assist players with games and often dish out Bingo Points (BPs).
Coverall Games - Played in 75 ball bingo the objective of a coverall jackpot is quite simply to cover all the numbers on the card (of which there are 25). The player who covers all the numbers in the fewest number of calls is the winner.
Coverall Jackpots - We offer a range of large jackpots on our coverall games, starting from £1000 and going right up to £1 million, in our daily coverall games. To win the jackpot you must bingo within 44 calls or less. After that, the cash prize decreases with each call.
