The Bingo Spot Live from Pragmatic Play

Welcome to The Bingo Spot Live from Pragmatic Play. It’s a revamped version of Pragmatic’s Vegas Ball Bonanza, which has been discontinued.

At the heart of The Bingo Spot is the same ball draw machine and 9-from-30 ball draw. Your aim once again is to collect vertical or horizontal lines by matching the numbers on your tickets with the numbers of drawn balls. The more lines matched, the bigger the payout.

While the basic premise of the game (and studio set) is largely unchanged, quite a few elements have been tweaked for the new version.

The Bingo Spot Live can be played at casinos including Frumzi, bet365, 888 and Dafabet.

How to Play The Bingo Spot Live

During betting time you have 2 decisions to make:

1. Choose what ticket value you wish to play, with €/$/£ 0.10 the minimum and €/$/£ 50 the maximum
2. Choose how many tickets you wish to play, up to a maximum of 400.

That’s your active participation in the game done!

Once betting time ends your chosen number of tickets are displayed. Each ticket is populated with 9 randomly selected numbers from 1 to 30 arranged in a 3×3 grid.

Lucky Multiplier Numbers and Wild Ball

Before the draw starts, five Lucky Numbers are chosen and randomly assigned multipliers of 2x, 3x or 5x. If any of these numbers are drawn, that multiplier is applied to any payout reached on tickets containing the number. For tickets containing more than 1 drawn Lucky Number, the multipliers multiply.

By default, 9 balls are drawn from the machine. In addition to 30 balls numbers 1 through 30, inside the machine is a Wild Ball. If drawn, the Wild Ball activates a spin of the Bonus Wheel which results in an extra 1, 2, 3, or 4 balls being drawn.

Bingo Spot Ticket Payout Calculation

The more horizontal or vertical lines to complete on a ticket, the bigger the ticket payout, as follows:

• Full House (all 9 numbers): 249 to 1 (or 250×)
• 4 lines matched: 49 to 1 (or 50×)
• 3 lines matched: 24 to 1 (or 25×)
• 2 lines matched: 4 to 1 (or 5×)
• 1 line matched: 1 to 1 (or 2×)

In the below example, with tickets purchased at €0.10 each, the best ticket (top left) paid €15 or 150×, calculated as follows:

• 3 lines = 25×
• Two Lucky Numbers were match on the ticket with multipliers 3×, 2× = 6×
• 25×6=150×

The payouts on all wining tickets add to reach the final payout.

While it’s nice to know the ins and outs of the game, once your bets are placed, you only need watch as tickets fill and payouts calculate. Highest paying tickets are automatically ordered top left to right as the draw proceeds.

The Bingo Spot Return to Player

Amidst the distraction of balls flying around, red daubs appearing and a constantly re-shuffling of tickets (up to 400!) what is important to know, is the return you’re getting playing The Bingo Spot.

The good news: it’s an improvement from Vegas Ball Bonanza.

The bad news: it’s still not great. The games RTP is set at 96.44%.

What changed? The Bingo Spot V Vegas Ball Bonanza

For those interested, here are some of the key differences between The Bingo Spot and it’s predecessor Vegas Ball Bonanza.

• Ticket bundle volume.
  – The Bingo Spot: up to 400 each round
  – Vegas Ball Bonanza: up to 9 each round
• Multipliers
  – The Bingo Spot: 5 at 2x, 3x or 5x
  – Vegas Ball Bonanza:  3 to 5 at 2x, 3x, 5x, 10x, 20x or 50x plus a Star Ball included in the machine, which if drawn activates all Lucky Multipliers
• RTP
  – The Bingo Spot: 96.44%
  – Vegas Ball Bonanza: 95.97%