Description
Give your bingo life some glamour with Cinco Bingo, the hugely (and increasingly) popular card-based game that’s simple, quick and fun.
Tickets kick off from just five pence, rising to 40p, and you can win big with £20,000 jackpots. The rooms with the pricier tickets tend to fill up more slowly, so if you play in one of these, you may well boost your chances of success.
Cinco Bingo could be the perfect game to have try if you’re after something a little different – it’s one of a new generation of games shaking up the traditional bingo experience.
Playing cards replace numbered balls, and the aim is to match the five cards (cinco is Spanish for five) with those the dealer has turned over – the winner being the first person to do so.
Get the app and play Cinco Bingo on the go on your tablet or smartphone – and remember you can also chat to your bingo buddies while you play. Rooms tend to be linked to the provider’s chat rooms, so you can celebrate success or commiserate with each other as appropriate.
You could also win one-off bingo bonuses via your chat host and learn about special offers or promotional codes, too.
How to play
How to Play Cinco Bingo
You’ll see five lines of five playing cards placed face down. Each of these is a hand, and you can buy up to five hands for every game.
Because of this limit, in many ways, Cinco Bingo offers a more even playing field than other online bingo rooms, where you can buy anything up to 96 tickets. And everyone with five hands is equally likely to win.
Purchase just one hand, or go for all five to maximise your chances. As with standard bingo, click on the icon to choose your buying option.
Once the game begins, the dealer turns over a card from a complete pack of regular playing cards, continuing until the game has been won.
Again, as you would in ordinary bingo, once you match a card with one from any of your hands, mark it off with a gaming chip. The first player to mark off all five cards, in any single hand, is the winner.
Although the graphics for Cinco can seem basic, the large, clear on-screen cards are user-friendly. And, if you wish, thanks to the software, you can change your chip’s colour, if you have a favourite or ‘lucky’ shade.
Gameplay and Software
Although the graphics for Cinco Bingo can seem basic, the large, clear on-screen cards are user-friendly. And, if you wish, thanks to the software, you can change your chip’s colour, if you have a favourite or ‘lucky’ shade.
Tombola develops unique in-house games and software, so Cinco Bingo is exclusive to this site – you won’t find it anywhere else.
The Prizes
Typically, the higher the ticket or hand price, the bigger the jackpot – it will also depend on how many players there are. Special fixed-sum jackpots, like progressive prizes in regular bingo, may also be available.
The biggest jackpot is for the player marking off all five cards in a line for the first five cards called. For 40p a hand games, this can be up to £20,000, dropping to £2,500 for the 5p game.
There may also be extra prizes for players marking off a full hand in the first six or seven calls.
Winner Takes All
Typically, the higher the ticket or hand price, the bigger the jackpot – it will also depend on how many players there are. Special fixed-sum jackpots, like progressive prizes in regular bingo, are also often available.
The biggest jackpot is for the player marking off all five cards in a line for the first five cards called. For 40p a hand games, this can be up to £20,000, dropping to £2,500 for the 5p game.
Finally, there may also be extra prizes for players marking off a full hand in the first six or seven calls.
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