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75 Ball Bingo - 75 Ball Bingo is the most popular form of bingo in the USA and Canada. The game's name comes from the 75 balls that 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's been something of a national institution since the 1960's and is played in Bingo Halls nationwide. The game's 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 card has three horizontal lines of five numbers, meaning each card has 15 numbers. 90 Ball Bingo gives you the chance to win three times. You can win a prize for one line, two lines and for full house.

Aqua Pay - The secure online banking service used by MirrorBingo to process all of our players' financial transactions.

Banking - Part of the member's area that allows you to view your current balance, along with details on your winnings, wagers and payouts.

Bingo Buddy - We regularly select lucky players to become a bingo buddy. Our top roomies get a whopping £500 cheque as well as their story and picture posted on the site. Click here to look at our recent Buddies.

Bingo Calls - 90 Ball Bingo is famous for its inventive calls, all of which can be heard when you play the game.
Click here for a full list of calls. Two little ducks anyone?

Bingo Lingo - WTG (Way to go), WD (Well done) and BRB (Be right back) are three common phrases used in our chat rooms. Click here to look at our Bingo Lingo page.

BPs - BPs stand for Bonus Points which can be exchanged for bingo cards. You may also see them referred to as LPs (Loyalty Points), or as Bingo Points - these all mean the same thing.
There are a number of ways to win bingo points which include referring a friend 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.

Butterfly promotion - Our butterfly pattern runs randomly throughout the week. For every time you bingo on this pattern, you'll enter the draw to win a share of 1,000,000 BPs!
Click here for more on our weekly promotions.

Cashcade - mirrorbingo is operated by Cashcade Ltd. Cashcade operates a number of bingo sites. More about the company be found on www.cashcade.co.uk

Card - A card is what you need to 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 5p and £1.

Chat Rooms - mirrorbingo is renowned for its fun chat rooms. In the rooms you can talk to other players, ask questions with our Chat Moderators (CMs), and play games to earn Bonus Points and ultimately meet and make new friends.
Each of the chat rooms are connected to a bingo game room of the same name and has its own CM. We currently have over ten chatrooms.

Chat Room Games - Chat Room Games are a great way of winning extra bingo points and are played every hour on Mirror Bingo. There are currently 13 different games played throughout the day on .

CMs - CM is the abbreviation for Chat Moderator. You may also see them referred to as Chat Managers, or Chat Hosts.
Chat Moderators monitor our chat rooms, assist players with games and often dish out Bingo Points (BPs).
You can read more about your favourite CMs and see their pictures in our Meet the CMs section here.

Community - mirrorbingo Community is a section of the website that helps you get to grips with bingo better.
There's a section on Bingo Lingo, Bingo calls, as well as the most up to date newsletters plus a meet the CMs area! Click here to look at the community section now.

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.