Comments on: Review: “National Bingo Night”

By: pukalo

pukalo — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:54:30 +0000

Also heres a fact for you that the audience is rigged also and the contestants too. Ok so here was the white cards game, so far only 5 numbers called, 4 of them were from the I row and 1 from the G row. Now PAY CLOSE ATTENTION! He asked for people with 1 away to stand up. 8 people stood up. Ok fair enough for me. Next number to come out was from the G row! He asks how many people with 1 away to stand up? 10 more people stand up making 18!!! WTF ? THERE IS NO WAY that a number from the G row would make ANYONES cards one away from Bingo! Im sorry but this show is just sad and pathetic, at least please do a better job with your dam actors next time because thats pathetic!

By: pukalo

pukalo — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:50:57 +0000

This game is sooo rigged! Obviously the show is taped and they already determined how many people win the 5$ certificates. And ill tell you, there arent many of those out there. Just for the heck of it I printed out 2000 cards with the help of my friend, guess how many red cards won ? “THE SUSPENCE” NOOOO BINGO! White NOOO BINGO! BLUE ? PLZ ? 239 BINGOS. Now how is that humanely possible since the red game had about 10 numbers drawn and the blue game 10 numbers drawn and somehow only the blue ones won and no red ones? Complete RIGGAGE to make people watch the commercials!

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 26 May 2007 22:12:11 +0000

Cool!

By: Random Websurfer

Random Websurfer — Sat, 26 May 2007 21:21:14 +0000

I don’t play along with the show. I just jot down the numbers while doing something else, and then take time on the weekend to go through the cards.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:50:11 +0000

You’re absolutely right! Well, I could have won with a B-15 or an I-28 on the white game. Some idiot got Bingo and ended the whole thing. I’ll have to play along next week. BTW, how did you keep track of marking off all those Bingo cards?

By: Random Websurfer

Random Websurfer — Sat, 26 May 2007 20:25:28 +0000

The show is rigged. I printed off 333 cards (3 red/white/blue games per card makes it 1000 chances at each red/white/blue game) Of those, I received 0 wins on the red game, 0 wins on the white game, and EXACTLY 50 wins on the blue game, both weeks. What happens is, Kmart doesn’t want to give out $5 gift cards to a bunch of viewers, so since the show is pre-recorded, ABC doesn’t put out any winning cards for the red game, except for the 1 person who will win the $10,000 grand prize (which is predetermined). Same for the white card. Nearly everybody who prints off a large number of cards wins a blue game, which is only an entry into their jackpot. But since there are people out there who literally have nothing to do all day but print cards, your chances of winning are more than 1000X worse than your local lottery.

Remember, the terms & conditions DO say “This Sweepstakes is a seeded instant win game; it is not a state-sanctioned bingo game.” In other words, ABC already determined who will win, and people at home are playing along just for the fun of it.

By: PT

PT — Sat, 26 May 2007 15:08:10 +0000

My family and I had about 60 cards as well and, funny enough, only ONE card had N-37…and, sure enough, that was the only card to make a BINGO! Too bad tho that it was on the Blue game where the only thing I won was an entry into a drawing.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 26 May 2007 13:01:07 +0000

I had N-37 on my Red Card! It just wasn’t called in the red game.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 26 May 2007 04:21:39 +0000

The play at home game is rigged! Since the show is pre-recorded, they already know the numbers that are drawn. When you print out your cards to play at home, they already know whether you won or not. They also have one number in each game that is called and doesn’t appear on ANY of the home cards. For example, on today’s game, N-37 was called and I did not have that number on any of my 60 cards! I guarantee that only those people with winning cards had N-37 on it! Besides, it will end up costing more than $5 to print out the cards just to win a $5 gift card at Kmart! I’m done with it. I do, however, want my phone’s ring tone to be “NOOOO BINGO!!!!!” in that Indian guy’s accent!

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 26 May 2007 02:47:55 +0000

Trying to find National Bingo Night numbers for 5/24/07. Can anyone help?
THANKS!

By: David

David — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:00:11 +0000

NBN wasn’t a good show, but quite frankly neither is Millioanire now. The appeal of Millionaire has wore off cause no contestant has the guts to keep playing the game. At least NBN made you played till you won the promised prize, or you lost.

By: David W

David W — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:29:04 +0000

Oops..minor error on my part: 23-call blackout is impossible; I was thinking about 25-call blackout. But the point remains the same…tease an unfathomably huge jackpot against unfathomable odds, but let people play for free and you might have a ratings juggernaut…

-David

By: David W

David W — Mon, 21 May 2007 14:26:55 +0000

Well promoted, but poorly executed. I was kinda looking forward to this – a giant BINGO cage isn’t a bad gimmick, but as others have noted, it looks pretty cheesy and is HORRIBLY edited.

I think this show misses one of the fundamentals of BINGO – a GREAT caller along with the master “BINGO” board. The on-stage/contestant game isn’t BINGO, it’s “flip the lucky quarter.” And it doesn’t take a math whiz to figure out each game is based on the outcome of about 14 calls before someone probably has a five-in-a-row BINGO; that last game (in which the contestant won) got *incredibly* lucky on five straight calls.

I don’t understand why the on-stage contestants have to play some cheesy game. If you wanted to make it REALLY cool, make it LIVE, and play (for example) one or two games of BLACKOUT. Winners phone an 800-number when they blackout, and the caller stops calling numbers after you’ve called a sufficient number to guarantee that a blackout is possible. You can still have an in-studio game for a “special” prize.

Heck, a local TV station here in Oklahoma used to do precisely that, gave away free bingo cards at stores all over town, and had a ratings winner for close to two years before it finally faded. Surely a network could make the same kind of thing work on a grander scale, like 23-call BLACKOUT for, say $10 million….the odds are next to impossible, but you’ve got people paying $1 a shot to play worse odds in the lottery…

-David

By: Jordan Hass

Jordan Hass — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:56:58 +0000

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8kk9SwDGM3k

NATIONAL BINGO NIGHT SPAWNS NEW SERIES:
Film At 11

By: David Davenport

David Davenport — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:05:41 +0000

IMHO, it wasn’t as bad as I hoped it would be. Although there are some kinks to be worked out, this is a fun little hour of entertainment.