Bingo Jackpots.

 

With regards to jackpots, bingo games have three basic types, and these are standard across most online bingo sites, as well as real life bingo sites halls. The first type of jackpot is the game jackpot, the second is the coverall jackpot, and the last is the progressive jackpot.

 

The various types of jackpot have several differences, the one you are probably most interested in is the amount; the highest jackpots are the progressive jackpots, which can reach hundreds and thousands of dollars.

 

 

Game Jackpots

This is the jackpot that can be won in each game, the prize pool is taken from the tickets sold. The amount take from the entirety of the ticket sales will vary from site to site. But, the majority of sales does go to funding the jackpot. Sites will remove some money to pay for overheads, some for profit, some to go towards the progressive jackpot, and some to pay for their bonus structure.

 

Coverall Jackpots

These jackpots can only be won in 75-ball bingo. Instead of players needing to bingo on a pattern per se, they bingo sites when their entire card has been covered. The jackpots for coverall bingo are higher than the normal game jackpots and as such, these games are played less frequently. They often start with an allocated amount for the jackpot, such as $300, which then reduces the longer it takes any one player to bingo sites, they always stop reducing the prize pool at a certain point, say $50, which will still amount to more than the standard game jackpots.

 

Progressive Jackpots

Not all bingo sites sites have a progressive jackpot on any of their games, but the majority do – often on several games. Games with these jackpots are always popular with bingo players.

 

How the jackpots are won varies from game to game and from site to site, but a common strategy is to award the jackpots to players who bingo within a certain number of balls – e.g. you may need to win before the caller has drawn 30 balls, which is extremely rare.

 

The progressive jackpots are contributed to on every purchase of a card for that game; a certain portion of ticket sales per game is used to fund the progressive jackpot prize pool. This means that the prize fund continues to grow every game, and will do so indefinitely until it has been won – at which time the process begins again.

 

There are effectively industry standards regarding the progressive jackpot, simply because most sites use the same methods, rather than there being any governing legislation. A standard progressive jackpot works as follows:

 

Often, you will be able to find out the specific details of the progressive jackpot in the sites FAQ section, but if you cannot find information, or are confused about some aspect of the progressive jackpot, you can ask your chat host for more details.

 

Sites will usually have two or more progressive jackpots, one will be linked to a 75-ball bingo game, the other will be linked to  a 90-ball bingo sites game.

 

75-ball bingo progressive jackpots will require players to bingo within a certain number of calls. Several sites have modified this slightly, requiring their players to bingo on a certain pattern, only available some of the time. For sites that require players to bingo sites within a specific number of calls, the number required will vary from room to room and site to site, but it is usually around the 28 calls mark.

 

90-ball bingo always requires the winner of the progressive jackpot to bingo within a certain number of calls; there are no patterns in 90-ball bingo. The number of calls may be slightly increased for 90-ball bingo sites because it takes more calls to win; and again, this varies from room to room and site to site.

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