Bingo on Eurodam

[janiceah]

Hi all. Has anyone played Bingo on the Eurodam that can tell me approximately how much it costs to play? Also, do they use those hand held computer machines? I really didn't enjoy playing on those on our NCL cruise. I felt like I didn't even need to be there to play.

[funlovin'cruiser]

Hi all. Has anyone played Bingo on the Eurodam that can tell me approximately how much it costs to play? Also, do they use those hand held computer machines? I really didn't enjoy playing on those on our NCL cruise. I felt like I didn't even need to be there to play.

All the ships are the same. If it's a standard bingo (4 games) it's one chance per game for all 4 games for $10 and 3 chances per game for all 4 games for $20. The cards are sold in packets and you cannot rip apart the chances if you get the 3 chance cards. They are perforated at the numbers, so you poke and fold them, no computers, other than the one that the caller uses to show the numbers that have been called.

For the special games, we payed the following:

The express evening bingo (first night) was $10 for 3 chances on 1 game, prize was $200
Win A Cruise bingo was 1 game, 1 chance for $10 and 3 chances for $20
100,000 bingo was exactly the same format at the regular bingo, but the packets went up by $5 each, so $15 for 1 chance at all 4 games and $25 for 3 chances.
Final Jackpot Bingo was the same price for the 1 game as Win A Cruise above.

Hope that this helps :-)

[janiceah]

All the ships are the same. If it's a standard bingo (4 games) it's one chance per game for all 4 games for $10 and 3 chances per game for all 4 games for $20. The cards are sold in packets and you cannot rip apart the chances if you get the 3 chance cards. They are perforated at the numbers, so you poke and fold them, no computers, other than the one that the caller uses to show the numbers that have been called.

For the special games, we payed the following:

The express evening bingo (first night) was $10 for 3 chances on 1 game, prize was $200
Win A Cruise bingo was 1 game, 1 chance for $10 and 3 chances for $20
100,000 bingo was exactly the same format at the regular bingo, but the packets went up by $5 each, so $15 for 1 chance at all 4 games and $25 for 3 chances.
Final Jackpot Bingo was the same price for the 1 game as Win A Cruise above.

Hope that this helps :-)
Thanks for the info! Do they have it daily or just a few times during the week? So each time they hold bingo is there about 6 games total or is there more games then that.

[Oceanwench]

I am not a big Bingo fan - so I may get my terms wrong here - but I did play when I was aboard the Eurodam.

The Bingo cards we purchased were usually between $20 and $25.

We did not go to every Bingo, but I believe there was a game almost every day.
They did a big "cover all" Bingo where the prize was $50,000 if you covered all your numbers within 46 calls. Each day the jackpot was increased, and the last day the jackpot was $100,000. No one won it. :(

Once they got past the 46th call, then the jackpot was a percentage of what they sold in cards.

When they did the cover all games, they did not do any other games.

When they did not do the big jackpot games, they played four games. My BIL won the BO game, where you have to cover all your B's and O's and shout "I have BO."

They did different variations of Bingo - "postage stamp," "H" etc.

DJ Dave was really good at calling and made it fun!

[iamaphisig]

On the Veendam we played bingo each day, people are right about the prices - 1 square for $10 or 3 squares for $20. It's the "poke and fold" cruise ship method of bingo marking, no daubing required : )

I was surprised how few people played bingo on our cruise... I won 5 times during our trip, which basically paid for me to buy in on all the other days. The winnings were small, but still a lot of fun!

We had a "snowball jackpot" bingo special that kept growing throughout our cruise, and was finally given out at the end. Super fun, especially for the lucky ducky who won!

[saltandpepper02476]

We just got back from the Eurodam on2/13/10 and the cost is $25.00 for four games. The last game is always cover all. THey play all types of games, postage stamp, four corners etc. They do have a game to win a free cruise. DJ Dave was great calling the bingo numbers.

[saltandpepper02476]

Sorry I forgot to mention it is the bingo cards that you fold the number back, no daubing or markers and at the end of bingo you just toss the cards into a box

[callmedeb]

We just got back from the Eurodam on2/13/10 and the cost is $25.00 for four games. The last game is always cover all. THey play all types of games, postage stamp, four corners etc. They do have a game to win a free cruise. DJ Dave was great calling the bingo numbers.

Dave still owes me a Weng Weng, LOL.

They did also have a couple, just coverall, games that were $20 for three cards or $10 for one card.

Cheers,

Deb