New Zealand Gazette – 2003 – No. 101

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✨ Bingo Game Rules



2684 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE No. 101

“Random Number Selector” means a device or machine that selects randomly the numbers to be announced in a game of bingo, and includes a process whereby a casino employee selects balls randomly from a receptacle;

“Rolling Jackpot Sequence” means the sessions of bingo games in respect of which a rolling jackpot operates;

“Session” means the playing of two or more games of bingo on any one occasion;

“Session Card” means a bingo card that is used by a player in a session of bingo.

1.2 In these rules, unless the contrary intention appears:

(a) the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and

(b) a reference, in a rule, to a sub-paragraph is to a sub-paragraph of that rule.

2.0 Application

These rules shall apply to the game of bingo.

3.0 Equipment

3.1

Bingo shall be played with:

(a) a random number selector that is:

(i) capable of selecting a number at random from the numbers 1 to 90 inclusive; and

(ii) incapable of selecting numbers other than at random; and

(iii) incapable, within a single bingo game, of selecting the same number twice; and

(b) one or more bingo cards for each of the players in the game.

3.2

Each bingo card used in a game of bingo must:

(a) be in the form set out in the appendix to these rules; and

(b) have printed on its front, in a grid of three horizontal lines of five numbers each, 15 different numbers between 1 and 90 (both inclusive); and

(c) subject to rule 4.5, form part of a series of bingo cards that:

(i) is identifiable as a series by separate colour coding and by the same serial number being printed on the front or back of each card, together with the words “serial number”, and

(ii) has printed, on the front of each card, card numbers that are numbered consecutively,

(iii) does not contain two or more cards with the same 15 numbers printed on both or all of those cards, and

(iv) has a different serial number from that printed on each of the other series of bingo cards used by the casino operator.

4.0 Entry into Game/Session

4.1

An entry into the game of bingo may be made only through the purchase of one or more bingo cards for the game. No other charge may be made for admission to a game.

4.2

All bingo cards used in a particular game of bingo must be priced for the players at the same price, and must give rise to an equal chance of winning. The price of bingo cards may however vary from game to game.

4.3

The price of a bingo card must be displayed on a notice at or near each place where bingo cards are available for sale.

4.4

The casino operator shall not sell any bingo card to a person who is not in a gaming area of the casino at the time.



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