Costa Bingo Rooms

How is the Costa Bingo lobby organised?

The Costa Bingo rooms sit in one bingo lobby split into five tabs: Classic, Jackpots, Specials, Free and Recommended. Tickets run from 1p to 50p, and every room card shows the game type, ticket price and prize before you join.

The official lobby page describes the range plainly: cards start from 1p, there are free games and there are jackpot rooms. According to the Getting Started guide, each room card lists the type of bingo, the price of a card, the jackpot, when the next game begins, how many players are in the room and whether a chat host is on duty. That is enough to compare rooms without opening them one by one. Prizes and player numbers move constantly, so the figures below are the ones shown in the lobby snapshot we checked, not fixed amounts. To see the live lobby you need to be signed in through the Costa Bingo login.

Which Costa Bingo rooms were in the lobby snapshot?

The snapshot listed eleven rooms: five 90-ball, four 75-ball and two 52-5 rooms, with ticket prices from free to 30p. The table shows each room with its tab and the prize displayed at that moment.

Two things stand out. Most rooms cost 5p or less per ticket, so penny bingo is the norm rather than a niche, and the two biggest prizes, in £1K Big Ticket Pop and Late Summer £1500, sit in the two dearest rooms. Late Summer is plainly a seasonal room, so expect a different headline game at other times of the year.

What is the difference between 90-ball, 75-ball, 5 Line and 52-5 bingo?

They differ in the card and in how you win. 90-ball pays three prizes per game, 75-ball pays for a set pattern, 5 Line pays five separate line winners, and 52-5 uses playing cards instead of numbers.

The classic British game is 90-ball bingo, with three chances to win in every game. 75-ball bingo is quicker and pattern-based: coverall is the usual target, but the official guide also shows a heart, a sailing ship and a smiley face, and some rooms pay small 1TG and 2TG prizes to players one or two numbers short. 52-5 is described on the official site as a newer version where tickets look different according to the game theme.

How do you buy tickets in a Costa Bingo room?

Open a room, pick tickets from the randomly generated cards and press BUY. You can buy until 10 seconds before the game starts, and every purchase is final.

The Getting Started guide covers the details. You scroll through tickets with the arrows, click a card to select it, or use the + and − buttons to select cards in batches. Each card carries a reference number such as #1234567, which is the number support will ask for if something goes wrong. Auto Daub is switched on in Options at the top right; with it off you mark numbers by hand, and the guide is clear that daubing has no effect on the result. If a card wins, it wins. The official 90-ball and 75-ball guides add that the minimum is one card and that more cards raise your chances, which is true but also raises your spend.

Do Costa Bingo rooms have chat and chat hosts?

Yes. Every room has a chat window with hosts who run chat games, and you can switch to other chat rooms, usually Help and Lounge, from the room name at the top of the chat.

The Help room is where you reach the assistants mid-game without leaving your cards. You can see who is chatting, freeze the scroll with the padlock and clear the window with the bin icon. The house rule is strict: rude or offensive chat gets you banned from chat and can get the account removed. The bingo lingo you will hear from hosts, from One Little Duck to Wobbly Wobbly, is collected on our bingo calls page.

Which jackpot rooms and weekly games does Costa Bingo run?

The Jackpots tab held the Mystery Jackpot room, and the official home page names four regular features: Costa Splash, Costa Cove, Big Shop and Costa Cooler. Prize amounts for those features are not published, so check the lobby.

In the Mystery Jackpot room the prize is picked at random from a range shown in the room and revealed 10 seconds before the game, then fixed. Progressive jackpots work differently: they grow with every ticket bought in qualifying rooms, can only be won with a Full House within the stated conditions, and carry over when nobody hits them.

Where should you go after the room overview?

Each format has its own guide on this site.

Rules and rooms are split across 90-ball, 75-ball and the free bingo guide for On the House. Jackpot rules are on the Mystery Jackpots page, and the calls are on the bingo calls page. Rooms also work on the phone through the Costa Bingo app, and if bingo is not your game, the slots lobby holds around 500 titles. Bingo is for adults 18+ in Great Britain; if it stops being fun, BeGambleAware and the National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133 can help.