90 Ball Bingo at Costa Bingo

What is 90 ball bingo?

90 ball bingo is the classic British game: numbers 1 to 90 are called at random, and each ticket can win three prizes in one game, for 1 Line, 2 Lines and a Full House. Costa Bingo calls it the game that comes to mind when people think of bingo.

Anyone searching bingo 90 ball is usually after one of three things: how the ticket works, the rules, or where to play. This page covers all three for Costa Bingo, using the official 90-ball guide and the lobby snapshot we checked. The official wording is modest and accurate: popular in bingo halls up and down the country, and the same game online, with the computer doing the marking for you. If you prefer patterns and a smaller card, the 75-ball guide is the sister page to this one.

What does a 90 ball bingo card look like?

A 90 ball bingo card has three rows of nine squares, 27 in total. Fifteen squares hold numbers and twelve are blank, so each row carries five numbers and four blanks.

You only need to cover the numbered squares; the blanks never matter. The terms card and ticket mean the same thing here: Costa Bingo uses both, and so do most players. Online 90-ball bingo cards are generated at random for each game, and at Costa Bingo every purchased card shows a reference number at the top, for example #1234567. Keep that number if you ever query a result with support.

What are the 90-ball bingo rules?

The 90 ball bingo rules are simple: the first player to cover any one horizontal line wins the 1 Line prize, the first to cover any two lines wins the 2 Lines prize, and the first to cover all fifteen numbers wins the Full House.

The game carries on after each win until the Full House is claimed. The official guide notes that the 2 Lines prize is usually bigger than the 1 Line prize and that the Full House usually takes the biggest prize; the exact split is shown in each room. The table below compares the three stages.

How to play 90 ball bingo at Costa Bingo, step by step

Sign in, open a 90-ball room from the lobby, choose your tickets, press BUY before the 10-second cut-off and let Auto Daub mark the numbers. Winnings are added to your account automatically.

In more detail, after the Costa Bingo login the bingo lobby shows the rooms by tab. Each room card says 90 for this game type, along with the ticket price, prize, start time and number of players. Inside the room, randomly generated tickets appear; you click to select them, or use the + and − buttons to pick a batch. The minimum is one ticket, and purchases are final. Once the game starts, numbers are drawn and announced with sound on, and called numbers are marked on your tickets if Auto Daub is on in Options. If you mark by hand, the result is the same: a winning ticket wins whether you daub it or not. At the end, BINGO is announced with the winning aliases, and the next game screen follows. That is how to play 90-ball bingo at Costa, from lobby to payout.

Which 90-ball rooms are in the Costa Bingo lobby?

The lobby snapshot showed five 90-ball rooms: Top of the Shop, Flip it, Ticket Pop, £1K Big Ticket Pop and the seasonal Late Summer £1500. Tickets ranged from 1p to 30p.

So the 90 ball bingo tickets here start at a penny and stop well below the 50p ceiling the official site gives for the whole lobby. A 1p ticket in Flip it is genuine penny bingo; the 25p and 30p rooms are where the four-figure prizes sit. The full lobby, including the 75-ball and 52-5 rooms, is mapped on our Costa Bingo rooms page.

Can a 90-ball game carry a progressive jackpot?

Yes, on qualifying games. The official progressive page says these jackpots can only be won with a Full House within a set number of calls, grow with every ticket bought, and carry over when nobody wins.

The rate listed on that page is 0.5% of ticket spend, and tickets bought with bonus funds contribute less than those bought with cash. When a pot is won, a new one usually starts at zero or a seed amount, and two winners split the prize. Some pots have a Must Go feature in which the number of calls allowed rises until someone wins. Whether a room has a progressive is shown in its prize panel. The separate random prize format is explained on the Mystery Jackpots page.

Where should you go after the 90-ball rules?

The next guides depend on what you play.

Pattern games are covered in the 75-ball guide, and the free On the House room on the free bingo page. The calls behind each number, from Kelly's Eye to Top of the Shop, are on the bingo calls page. If you have no account yet, the sign-up guide explains registration and the GAME50 offer, which is a games bonus for instant games rather than bingo. Bingo is for adults 18+; the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133 is there if play stops being fun.