Big Balls Bingo
It's all about bingos!
Welcome to one of the ugliest sites on the web built bysomeone who did web stuff for a living.
We are talking about bingo machines here, mostly Bally, but with a few digressions into United and other manufacturers.
Bingo caller & verifier is the app for playing bingo at home! It allows you to enhance the wining chance by adding much more bingo cards per game without losing focus. Use the app to. Create customized simple bingo card with the bingo ticket maker for Bingo 75 Balls or the Housie / Tambola Generator (Bingo 90 Balls). Dealer mode with Bingo Caller. Play bingo at home with family or friends.
My main interestis the technical details and reference materials. If you are lookingfor interesting reading instead of getting bogged downin techno-babble, click over toDanny Leach's bingo siteor Ray Watts site
If reading isn't your thing, try Nick Baldridge's For Amusement Only podcast and especially look for episodes on the Multi-bingo.
Tambola is played with numbers 90 called by 1 person/caller and players by removing these numbers on their tickets. Same as Big Balls Bingo. The game starts with a draw. As the game progresses, the. Calling all daubers! Looking for the most fun playing FREE bingo games? Big Spin Bingo offers a HUGE variety of bingo rooms, a load of BIG SPIN mania and even more frenzy for FREE! Fortune awaits when you give the bingo wheel a spin at Big Spin Bingo! B-9, O-62, I-28.BINGO! Blitz your way through over 20 bingo rooms and bash your personalized bingo dauber before you call out BINGO! This bingo master board is suitablefor large balls (not included). The master board is clearly labeled, making it very easy to read. Two-piece board snaps together quickly and easily. Bingo board is reusable are suitable for all ages offered at an pocket-friendly price.
Where's the little numbered balls?
Wrong kinda bingo. We are interested in pinball machinesthat look somewhat like this thing.
They have no flippers, 5+ balls, and are, umm, 'for amusementonly' (we posted a 'No Gambling Allowed' sign on the machine...that's how much we mean it!).
If you want to get the historical perspective, checkout the History link over there to the left. We've swiped articles byRuss Jensen and added some pictures. Also, Jeffrey Lawton(no, that's not me!) has published a book published by Schiffer cleverlytitled 'Bally's Bingo Pinball Machines', so it should be easyto find.
Information for each game (like schematics, manuals, flyers, score/instruction card scans/repros, mixer/reflex unit blueprints, etc.) is in the game listings and the paper summary.
A very good computer version of various machines is at http://bingo.joopriem.nl/. Plus, he's building in a method for using the software with a real playfield and cabinet so you can add a computer and display to create a multiple game machine.
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What's new
Here's as good a place as any for those ancient-school little'what's new' images!
Big Balls Bingo Caller
| Danny Chandler bought Randy Walker's new-in-box Miss Universe and is continuing the documentation process. Reflex unit diagram posted - and can of worms opened as his machine doesn't match the schematic that came with the game. | 02/19/21 |
| Dennis Dodel provided good SI card scans for United Mexico, Tahiti, Havana and Rio. Cards for Leader and ABC added on 2/28. Posted on pages in the game listings. | 02/17/21 |
| Jack Shoup got hold of another Venice, so the mixer 5 question is resolved and the odd/even reflex unit diagram has been created and posted. Jack provided lots more internal pictures, including both sides of the odd/even circuit board. | 01/23/21 |
| Mixer and reflex unit diagrams for Venice provided by Jack Shoup. Orient uses the same mixers. Actually, Jack cut the entiremixer assembly and reflex unit out of a parts head and mailed them to me. Worked great except mixer 5 has two 14-x wires attached, so I had to guess which was which. Anyone with a Venice or Orient can verify I got it wrong. Jack didn't have a cabinet, so no info on the odd/even reflex unit yet. | 11/15/20 |
| Information for mixer 1 & 2 diagrams for Can-Can provided by Jack Shoup. Diagrams posted. | 11/8/20 |
| The Pacific Pinball Museum's Bally Yacht Club chopped up. Unit diagrams and info posted. Still need to do shutter/ball lift timing diagrams. | 2/27/20 |
| The Pacific Pinball Museum's Williams Long Beach overhaul completed. Unit diagrams and info posted. This game they will not sell. | 4/30/19 |
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