Frequently asked questions

You can browse the lobby list as a guest, but to join a lobby or host one you need a free account. Sign-in supports Google, Facebook, Apple, or email and password. Create one from the login page.

Yes. The full game — 4 card slots, all 25 win patterns, every game mode (Single Pattern and the three Progressive variants), friend invites, and leaderboards — is free forever. Free accounts can host lobbies of up to 12 players and join up to 3 lobbies per day. Premium is an optional subscription that removes ads, doubles your card slots to 8, adds auto-mark, raises the lobby size to 100 players, and removes the daily lobby-join cap.

Bingo Party runs natively on Android and iOS and on any modern mobile or desktop browser through this web client. All three clients connect to the same realtime server, so you can host on your phone and have web players join from a laptop with no extra setup.

Sign in, tap Host a lobby from the lobby browser, pick your settings, and share the six-character code. Anyone with the code can join, or you can mark the lobby public and let players find you in the browser.

Free accounts have 4 card slots. Premium accounts have 8. Inside a single lobby you can play up to the lobby's per-player card limit (set by the host, capped at 8).

Each column draws unique random numbers from its column range — B 1 to 15, I 16 to 30, N 31 to 45, G 46 to 60, O 61 to 75 — with the center as the free space. The same number cannot appear twice on a single card.

No. Cards are validated for uniqueness on lobby join, so identical cards cannot collide. The same card can be reused across different lobbies without issue.

Cards persist forever in your account. The marks on a card are stored on the live game state only and are cleared automatically when a round ends, so the card is ready for the next room.

Each card you select is worth points on this lobby's scoreboard. The host sets the points per card (1 to 100), each round is scored zero-sum, and winners earn points from the losers. The scoreboard is a per-lobby competitive display only. Points are never purchasable and carry no real value — they cannot be purchased, spent, transferred, or cashed out.

No. Points are not a wallet or currency, so there is nothing to buy or top up. You earn points only by winning rounds, and your net score lives on each lobby's scoreboard. The only in-app purchases are extra card slots and the Premium subscription — neither grants points.

Yes. Each round is scored zero-sum from the host's points per card, so non-winners lose points to the winners. Your net score (points earned minus points lost) is a signed number that can go below zero — it is a competitive score, not a balance you can run out of.

No. The points scoreboard is per-lobby and display-only. It never leaves the lobby, is never combined into an account-wide balance, and has no real-world value.

Single Pattern is the classic flow: the first valid BiNGO on any enabled pattern wins the round (or wins their share of the points if multi-winner mode is on). Progressive turns the round into a sequence of stages — one per enabled pattern. Every stage produces winner(s) and a share of the round's points before play advances. Progressive comes in three variants: Ordered, Difficulty, and Free (see below).

Ordered plays stages in the exact sequence the host arranged them on the create-lobby screen — closest to a scripted bingo hall night. Difficulty auto-sorts stages by required marks, easiest first, so a 3-mark triangle plays before a 25-mark blackout. Free has no fixed stage order: after each stage clears, the next valid BINGO on any remaining enabled pattern advances play — fastest and least predictable. All three need at least 2 enabled patterns.

Hosts choose between two splits. Equaldivides the round's points evenly across the stages — the final stage absorbs any rounding remainder. Final Stage Biggest scales the points up each stage with linear weights (1, 2, 3, …) so the last pattern is worth the most. The create-lobby screen shows a live preview of both splits so you can see the exact points distribution before starting.

Yes. The 15-second multi-winner window applies per-stage. If multi-winner is on, the stage's share of the points is split among everyone who claims during that stage's window. If multi-winner is off, the first valid claim takes the whole stage share and play advances.

Calls continue until someone hits the current stage's pattern. Bingo is guaranteed within 75 calls for any standard pattern, so stages always resolve and the round always scores.

Lobby settings — patterns, auto-call speed, points per card — lock once a round begins. The host can pause and resume, but configuration changes take effect on the next round.

Hosts can choose between first-only or multi-winner mode. In multi-winner mode, when the first valid BiNGO is approved a 15-second countdown starts during which other players can still claim. After the window expires the round ends (Single Pattern) or the round advances to the next stage (Progressive).

Yes. The current host can hand the room off to any player still in the lobby. The new host immediately takes control of the timer and validation.

If the host disconnects mid-round the lobby pauses. If they do not return, control automatically transfers to the longest-tenured player so the round can resume.

Every win is validated twice: once on the claiming player's device and once on the host's device. Server-side security rules prevent any client from writing winners directly. Even a tampered client cannot fake a victory — the host's independent re-validation rejects it. Read more on the how to play page.

Hosts can kick or block any player from a lobby. Every player can also report another user for harassment, cheating, or inappropriate behavior from their profile screen. Reports are reviewed and repeat offenders lose access to the service.

We collect only the minimum data required to run the game — account identifier, username, and gameplay state. We do not sell personal data. Full details are in our privacy policy, and you can permanently delete your account from the account deletion page.

Make sure your device has a network connection — calls are pushed in real time. If you reconnect the full call history syncs back automatically. If the called number list is shorter than the host's, pull-to-refresh will resolve the gap.

The most common reasons: a marked square's number was never actually called, the matched pattern is not enabled in this lobby, or the multi-winner window already closed for the round. Tap any rejected square to see which call it would have needed.

Premium is billed through your platform's store (Apple App Store, Google Play, or RevenueCat for the web). Cancel from the same place you subscribed — your subscription stays active until the end of the billing period.