UYE Domination

I know the basics of bingo, but double/​triple bingo with 12 cards, no use of the free space and with every number ending in a two eliminated, it gets a bit crazy. Bless you, Khatherine T. for showing us bingo hall noobs how to play.
The bingo caller was hysterical in her own right. How? Let me explain. Here are the rules of the game B11. This game O65 will be a double bingo I20. Thank you for G38 coming to the South Point. This G47 jackpot is worth 10k. You need to really focus to get the job done. Kudos to Khatherine and Sylvia for keeping an eye on my card as I tried to sip some whiskey in between numbers. Although none of us won, we really didn’t drop that much $$ and we snagged some free drinks in the bingo hall. Our table was good for some laughs as well…
Others: «Bingo!»
Unilocal Table: «BOOOO» «SAY IT LOUDER!»
Loved it. Good times all around.

Thank you, Khatherine T for organizing a BINGO event! I’ve wanted to for awhile, but never got around to it!
The South Point is a great place to play, even for newbies! You’ll get a new appreciation for old folks when you see them keeping up with a machine and paper without missing a beat! I’ve played a lot of bingo, so I tried to help some of the new players with the action.
It was a Saturday night, and the cash ball jackpot was more than $ 10k, so it was more crowded than usual. This made it difficult for any of us to win and the games went pretty quickly, but it was still fun and always a good time meeting new Unilocal peeps! I also got carded at the bar — which is crazy, but I’m not complaining. :)
I’ll leave you with this little nugget: Do you know how to make a little old lady say F&$K? Yell BINGO!

B.I.N.G… Ooooh No! So Close!
I really thought one of us would take home a prize. Well, I did get the *special glass* for getting the first ‘smiley’ (thanks Drew). But aside from that, we all just had free drinks and free laughs. We left with and good memories, and some of us even left with daubers for next time.
For several of us, the evening started out at Zenshin. A big shout out to Kevin L. for getting us a table and then getting us an even larger table when the group was bigger than anticipated. Great conversation, tasty food, and good service. After dinner we dropped by the players desk to sign up for our trusty players’ cards. Thanks Khatherine for the tip; we all got a discount on our BINGO cards.
5 stars for this event! Kudos to Khatherine for planning, so many of us love Bingo but it took her to bring us together. She had a table reserved for our group, she helped us all get situated and she recommended the Small Rainbow and the Double Double, together it should equal $ 13 with your player’s card… Well then tell me how Shane N. and I ended up with bills of $ 38 and $ 29? Guess we don’t listen very well. LOL. Our extra cards sure didn’t help us win!
Most of us being newbies, many elected for the electronic cards, while the adventurous went retro with the paper versions. I elected to try a bit of both, several cards of each. Those with the machines helped those with the paper keep up. I have to give props to Drew, Chris, and anyone else with the paper Rainbow, they had like 16 cards at a time to keep up with!
The bingo caller was a hoot. Not only did she have an English accent *wtf*? She was a mumbler. no voice inflection. The fact that she rattled off instructions in between calling out numbers, made listening a challenge in and of itself. We all tried to hear the number she called and then find it on our cards before the next number was called. If one of us using the paper cards actually got bingo, we’d probably not have even known it because we were so focused on so many cards at a time! We each came so close so many times, often within 2 and a few times within one. I so wanted a BINGO from our group because the old folks playing were so quiet and unenthusiastic, one girl even just raised her hand. I know any of us would have been screaming like we’d just won publisher’s clearing house!
Unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to meet everyone from our group (the problem with a long table). But fist pumps for my homies who came out to represent: Drew, Nelson & Sylvia Q., Michael K., Kevin L., Chris R., Kevin B. and my newest friend Sasha (sp?). Can’t wait for round 2, *hint, hint*!

5 Stars for a great event that is out of my norm and for the great people that showed up to participate. Many of us started the evening at Zenshin for a quick meal, a few beers and good conversation at one of their very large round tables in the back room. Our waitress was quite accommodating for our rather large impromptu group and even offered without hesitation to split all of our bills! It was great seeing old pals and new peeps including the gracious Khatherine T. who setup her first event and even had the foresight to reserve a table for us at the bingo hall so that our group of 13 could all sit together.
Let’s face it, bingo is an olde-​timers game but I still consider it fun and cheap entertainment; my entire bingo experience set me back a whopping 14 dollars. And frankly I have a new respect for those that play the game old school style with the daubers; it’s nearly impossible to keep up if you have many cards in play. Nobody in our group was able to proclaim BINGO but it was still a great time. I was too focused trying to keep up on my 15 (fifteen!) cards to hear what was happening at the other end of our table but on my end the highlights were as follows:
Nelson’s almost zen-​like willing of his machine to produce the winning combination of numbers. Tried as he might… the universe just wasn’t quite in line this evening.
Kayla attempting to play on both the electronic version AND the old school style with her glitter topped dauber.
Shane’s play-​by-​play of both his machine and the, at many times, unintelligible bingo number caller who not only had a British accent but also sounded like she was sucking on a jolly rancher at the same time. Really? The one and only person in Vegas with a British accent just happened to be our bingo number caller??? Come on!
Drew and I both proclaiming at many times with frustration that we were unable to keep up with the old folks despite being over half their age and what I’m going to assume greater mental acuity.
Khatherine having great patience with the group and assisting those in need of help and with the rules all the while with a big smile. Cheers to you for that!
Great event and a great turn out… looking forward to round two, REDEMPTION!

A bunch of Unilocalers came out to dominate for a night of bingo at the South Point Casino, and Katherine T.‘s first (and hopefully not the last!) UYE. Doors opened at about 8:30pm so players could purchase their choice of game plan and payment plan
in hopes of shouting «BINGO!!!»
Being a noob to the bingo scene I asked the lady for the most basic beginner’s package (the $ 15 one!?) which included all the games and your choice of going manual with your trusty dauber, or with a machine where you could just sit back and let it do all the work for you… of course I went this route! You could also increase your wager and risk winning or losing more $$$, totally up to you… the more serious players
were seen with both machine AND manual games with up to five different daubers???
Competitive much??? Our table of 13 Unilocalers were split about ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ machine to manual format, and Katherine also did a great job in helping everyone get situated with their machines and how to manually look at your multiple games without missing a number (left to right, north to south… makes sense?)
The games started at 9pm, so we got our drinks (2 per person, coffee, hot chocolate, water, beer, or mixed drinks) and got ready to play. The announcer mentions the format of the game and calls each number out in rapid fire succession until that lucky person yells out the name of the game-​for the machine, it «sings» when you hit bingo!
a few of us got OH SO CLOSE with just one number to call, and unfortunately our table didn’t get to shout it out loud.:(We all had a blast though, taking jabs at the announcer, and capping on the winners for not being enthusiastic enough… totally good times! Can’t wait for our next outing… REVENGE!!! Big Mahalos once again to hostess Katherine T. for organizing this fun event, and hopefully we can get more Unilocalers to come out (and not FLAKE) to better a Unilocaler’s chance of winning! ALOHA!!!