All about Betty Bingo
The classic community game is here.
Bingo is one of the oldest community games, and for most of its life it hasn’t needed much. A card, a caller, and a room full of people with a dream waiting for the numbers.
Betty Bingo keeps everything you love about the 75-ball bingo format and adds something new: there’s a four-digit vault that runs alongside every round, with free cards and Betty coins waiting inside for players quick enough to crack it.
Where to play Betty Bingo
Bingo rooms start every day from 9am ET, and at set times throughout the day. You can find the bingo room widget on betty.ca or in the Betty app, with cards from $0.01.
It’s a scheduled game that needs multiple players to run. If there’s no bingo room active, you’ll see either a coming soon screen or a countdown to the next time you can buy a bingo card. Keep an eye out for the next game!
Games run up to five parts and pay out a separate prize for each one. Cards auto-daub as balls are called, and the vault pays out free cards and Betty coins on top.
Bingo has always been for communities
Bingo started as a 16th-century Italian state lottery, drawn weekly to raise money for the government. It crossed to North America in 1929 as a carnival game called Beano, later renamed after a player in Georgia shouted “Bingo!” by accident.
Within a decade it had settled into church basements and Legion halls as the way community groups raised money. Betty Bingo keeps that history intact.
Our online bingo in Ontario is run in partnership with a licensed bingo hall, with a share of all of Betty’s proceeds going back to the Kirkland and Area Bingo Association. Betty recently made its first donation of just over $2M.
Every card sold and every slot spun at Betty contributes to the same charitable framework that has funded community groups in this province for decades.
The Betty Bingo basics
The card is a 5×5 grid with a 75-ball format, with column one holding numbers 1 through 15, column two 16 through 30, and so on, usually with a center free space. Balls are called automatically and your cards daub themselves as they land.
Each game runs in parts, sometimes one, sometimes five, and every part carries its own target pattern and its own prize. A five-part game might pay out for any line, then two lines, then three, then four, then a full coverall, with the prize climbing at each step.
The active pattern and prize sit in the top right of the screen, and tapping the widget shows you what’s next.
A safe-cracking new feature
Every game, you get a four-digit vault code. When a ball matching one of your digits is called, you have five seconds to tap it.
Tap in time and you earn extra rewards. Miss the window and you can still tap the number to keep cracking the vault, but the reward for that digit is gone.
Hit all four numbers and the vault opens; payouts include free cards and Betty coins.
How the bingo rounds work
Head to the active bingo room; the Selling Phase is your window to buy cards up to the room’s and player’s limits and claim any free cards on offer.
Then the Playing Phase begins, where balls are called, cards auto-daub, the vault ticks down, and when someone hits the pattern the prize is awarded automatically. RNG controls the winners to ensure fairness.
Play responsibly
Set a budget before you sit down, treat your deposit as the cost of playing, and step away when you’re done. Deposit limits, session limits, and self-exclusion all live in your account settings. ConnexOntario is open 24/7 at 1-866-531-2600.
