Bingo price- current picture

[kluv2cruz]

Does anyone have a recent picture of the prices of bingo on a North American cruise? Thanks!

[suzyed]

1 hour ago, kluv2cruz said:

Does anyone have a recent picture of the prices of bingo on a North American cruise? Thanks!

I don't have a picture, but I just paid $68 for tablet. It came with a four game paper pack. There is some "lucky number" option that is $5 extra.   

[voljeep]

6 minutes ago, suzyed said:

I don't have a picture, but I just paid $68 for tablet. It came with a four game paper pack. There is some "lucky number" option that is $5 extra.   

$68!!  nope, nope, nope - get rid of the electronics - bring back the cage, balls, cards and your dobber.

 

same in the casino - bring back the slots with 'coins' - and your bucket to collect them when you win

 

and 'get off my lawn!'

[memoak]

1 hour ago, voljeep said:

$68!!  nope, nope, nope - get rid of the electronics - bring back the cage, balls, cards and your dobber.

 

same in the casino - bring back the slots with 'coins' - and your bucket to collect them when you win

 

and 'get off my lawn!'

The tablets have taken a lot of the fun out of bingo. Folks just sit around chatting waiting for the machine to tell them if the have won. Much more fun with cards. However much prefer the medallion or cruise card handling the slots. Hated having to wash hands and some diseases traveling with the coins 

 

[Rick&Jeannie]

1 hour ago, voljeep said:

and 'get off my lawn!'

Hah!  Love it! 😄

 

Although I do admit that I *generally* go with the tablet 🙄 I'm just too lazy!

[ChangeOrder]

I still pack and carry my little bingo bag with Princess daubers and such on any cruise 😄 But coins and buckets? No way, you're on your own there. I love the electronic credit for that.

 

[suzyed]

1 hour ago, Rick&Jeannie said:

Hah!  Love it! 😄

 

Although I do admit that I *generally* go with the tablet 🙄 I'm just too lazy!

You can do both with the pack they sell.

 

[JimmyVWine]

3 hours ago, suzyed said:

I just paid $68 for tablet. It came with a four game paper pack. There is some "lucky number" option that is $5 extra.

Is that the minimum buy-in to play?  I'm not much of a Bingo fan, but at that price I couldn't be convinced to play at gunpoint.  I have to believe that they have run the numbers of "how much revenue will we lose by chasing people away with a price hike versus how much revenue will we gain from the people who stay?", but at that price, it seems that they have no chance of capturing the revenue of the "Bingo curious" and will be left with only the Bingo hard corps. And that latter group has to be demographically shrinking.    

[memoak]

1 hour ago, JimmyVWine said:

Is that the minimum buy-in to play?  I'm not much of a Bingo fan, but at that price I couldn't be convinced to play at gunpoint.  I have to believe that they have run the numbers of "how much revenue will we lose by chasing people away with a price hike versus how much revenue will we gain from the people who stay?", but at that price, it seems that they have no chance of capturing the revenue of the "Bingo curious" and will be left with only the Bingo hard corps. And that latter group has to be demographically shrinking.    

You can buy just paper tickets and use a dauber. However the tablets have some many more tickets programmed they invariably in and takes the fun out it for casual players who don’t want to spend a fortune

 

[suzyed]

1 hour ago, memoak said:

You can buy just paper tickets and use a dauber. However the tablets have some many more tickets programmed they invariably in and takes the fun out it for casual players who don’t want to spend a fortune

 

It was the fist time I played in a long time. i won but had to share with one other person. I won $87 I think.  LOL

 

Edited January 25, 2023 by suzyed

[clarky213]

We paid $39 for 4 games with 6 tickets each game on Sky 2 weeks ago, which included a sctratch card.

 

There was a cheaper option at $29, but didn't get thr details for that.