Players will purchase bingo cards for use during a bingo session. When a player completes a predetermined pattern (arrangement) of covered numbers on a card (face), the player yells out 'bingo!' Once the bingo card is verified as being valid, that player wins the game. As each ball is selected, the number (and letter) is announced to the players, who will mark or daub the corresponding number on their bingo cards with an ink dauber. Bingo balls individually numbered 1 through 75 are mixed together and are randomly selected one at a time. Each card would typically have five numbers down each column and a center 'FREE SPACE' in the 'N' column.

The columns are labeled 'B' 'I' 'N' 'G' 'O' from left to right across the top of the vertical columns. Players purchase bingo cards that typically have a grid of five horizontal rows and five vertical columns. Conventional 75-number bingo (played at Mystic Lake) is a well known game.