Standard Bar Bingo
Terms:
- “Set”- One of the standard 5 card laminated sets you choose from the bingo table to play Bar Bingo.
- “$5 Game” – The last round of Bar Bingo is played for $5 per set, unlike the previous rounds which are all for $1 per set.
Playing Bar Bingo:
- Select one or more Sets of cards from the table pile of unused cards, based on the amount you will be playing, per round.
- Each round of Bar Bingo costs $1 per set that you wish to play. If during a particular round, you have more sets than you wish to play, turn the unused sets face down during that round.
- Bar Bingo is played like traditional Bingo in that a “Caller” calls out random playing cards (as opposed to numbers) and you achieve BINGO by covering all the matching playing cards called, in one set.
- If your final card is called to complete a set, yell out “BINGO!” before the next number is called.
- Winning cards will be verified. You can only win on the last card called.
- Each round’s jackpot is split equally among the number of winners of that round of Bar Bingo.
Gold Card Game:
Terms:
- “Gold Card” – A custom printed playing card from the S.A.L. that on one side is gold coloring with the S.A.L. emblem and the other side represents one of any possible 52 standard playing card faces.
- “Gold Card Set” – One of the standard 5 card laminated sets you choose from the bingo table, where one of the 5 cards in the set matches one of your Gold Cards. This is then registered as your “Gold Card Set” for the night, linking the set to that specific Gold Card.
- “General Game” or “Standard Game” – A standard game of Bar Bingo for $1 per set of 5 laminated cards to win the general jackpot for the round.
- “Gold Card Pot” – A separate jackpot amount separate from the general game jackpot, which can only be won by owners of Gold Cards.
Purchasing a Gold Card:
- Gold Cards consist of the 52 options of a standard deck of playing cards.
- Gold Cards are registered to an individual Bar Bingo player when they purchase one. When purchasing, the Gold Cards will be laying face down and you will make a random selection for each Gold Card you wish to purchase. This pile of available Gold Cards will dwindle down with each purchase until the last one is sold. We will, then, start selling from a new deck. While it is, therefore, possible for more than one person to have the same Gold Card, to win the Gold Card Pot* (see below), they would both have to be the last card called on any given game, therefore the chances of more than one person winning a Gold Card Pot with the same card is very low.
- You may purchase/register up to 3 gold cards for one playing year for $5 each. They will be valid from 09/07/26 thru 09/06/27. If you lose a gold card and wish to replace it, you must report it lost and can then purchase/register a new one. A lost Gold Card will be unregistered from your name and, then, no longer valid to be played with under your name.
- No player will have 2 matching Gold Cards. If a player decides to purchase a second or third Gold Card at a later date, after an initial Gold Card Deck has been completely sold out, and they do randomly choose a duplicate card to one they already own for the year, we will allow them to make another selection.
Gold Card Bingo – Winning the Gold Card Pot
- For every round of Bar Bingo there is, now, both the “regular pot” for a standard game of Bar Bingo, and there is also a “Gold Card Pot” which is a secondary pot for Gold Card owners to take part in only. This is additional to current round of Bar Bingo. To win the Gold Card Pot, a player must win the current traditional set of Bar Bingo, must have a Gold Card registered to the very set they are winning Bingo on, and the Gold Card registered to that set is the LAST CARD called to get the Bingo. The Gold Card Pot is an accruing jackpot amount that grows each game it is not won after a round of Bar Bingo, even continuing into the next Bar Bingo event, if not won in the $5 game.
- The Gold Card Pot is built by each Gold Card owner paying an additional $1 per round for each Gold Card (set) they are putting into play. That is, additional to the $1 they are already playing for that set in the general game.
- The additional $1 for the Gold Card game is collected from a separate collector than the person collecting for the general game. A Gold Card game collector will scan the set/Gold Card combination you wish to play and collect the additional $1. You can still play any set during the general game without taking part in the Gold Card game, if you do not wish to.
- Gold Card Pots are active every game, all 10 rounds, including the $5 game.
- When a Gold Card Pot is won, the S.A.L. will ensure the next Gold Card Pot starts with, at least, $10 if not collected, initially, that first round.
- Don’t forget to scream “Gold Card Bingo!” if you get bingo from one of your Gold Cards being called! If it is a good bingo, you will win BOTH the general Bingo Pot AND the Gold Card Bingo Pot!
- Each round’s Gold Card Jackpot is split equally among the number of Gold Card winners for that round of Bar Bingo, in the unlikely event there is more than just one winner.
- Each round’s Standard Game jackpot is split equally among the number of Standard winners of that round of Bar Bingo. This has no baring on the Gold Card pot.
The Gold Card Advantage:
- For every $1 round of Bar Bingo that you play, your Gold Cards are in play to receive one free set of cards for that game IF the very first card called matches one of your Gold Cards. This is REGARDLESS of whether or not you are playing for the Gold Card Pot with one or any of your cards. If one of your Gold Cards is called first, shout out “Gold Card Ticket!” and play will be stopped, monetarily, while you are offered a random group of face-down sets to choose one from and then check whether the first number is also on that card or is not. Play will then resume.
Game Integrity
- All Bar Bingo sets have now been labeled with a bar code for when being used by a Gold Card player. The set is first scanned, when selected, to register it to the specific player and to link it to their matching Gold Card. This should be done at the game’s primary cash handler’s table.
- The UPC Barcode is also scanned each time the player wants to use if for the Gold Card Pot in a round of Bar Bing by the Gold Card Collector who the player gives the extra $1 to, per play, to raise the Gold Card Pot.