Bingo winners?

[Beth AC]

Hi,

Has anyone won something awesome at Bingo? What did you win?

 

Beth

10 days and counting til we board Summit!

[Born to Cruise]

I won $150 on the Star Princess on a bingo once. My husband was the first person to stand up needing only one number for a coverall on the Vision of the Seas. Unfortunately his one number never was called. Had he won the prize was a free RCCL cruise. Doggone it.....................Bingo is getting too expensive on cruise ships though. Doubt if we will play on our next cruise on the Solstice. Someone posted the odds of winning with 46 numbers and it was pretty poor. Guess we will donate our dollars to the one armed bandits instead.

 

JoAnne

[highridge1]

I won the full card bingo game on 3/26/10, $440.00. Missed out on the $5000.00 by 5 numbers left.

:)

[Dlhappy29]

We won a cruise on Carnival about 8 years ago. We got a 7 day cruise in a suite for free. We had planned on going out of Ca. but the ship broke down and we rescheduled to Miami, since we had the inconvience they paid for our air fare as well. It was a wonderful cruise we enjoyed very much. We are not bingo players we just got a ticket on a whim and have never played since.

[RodPat]

I just won on Solstice. I got one of those machines that give you 24 games for $50. First bingo called I got to stand up, then alot more standing. I got to yell Bingo but had to share with 2 others. Pot was $138 but my share was only $46. So I won but I ended up losing $4. that is the only way I win, never big. LOL

 

Pat

[LV2COOK]

We won Giant jackpot on Carnival...free 7 day cruise in suite. Very nice trip. Beware of 1099 you will get for taxes!!

[kitty9]

Because the prices for bingo has gotten so high, and because the casino takes a pretty nice cut of the money taken in, the bingo prizes are not nearly what they used to be. I remember cruises where the final bingo game was worth over $10,000. Now, it's not anywhere near that amount. I was quite surprised by the lack of participants at bingo on our recent Solstice cruise. Less than 50 people each time, except for the final.

[ccruisequeen]

I saved $80 by NOT playing on my 4 day Paradise cruise:)!

[pattibacon]

I won $500 on a Big X one time in 1994 on a Carnival cruise. It was the day of my 20th wedding anniversary, and DH was in the cabin -- had been to Cozumel and Poncho's Back Yard the day before! Glad I got up and went to Bingo. Play every cruise I go on. DH and I both have won small amounts -- under $100 -- but like someone said, the pots aren't nearly what they used to be and not many people go anymore. Good chance to win but not much $$.

[highgrovers]

I won $4000. on Century about 12 years ago.

[starlake]

I have never won on Celebrity, but last November on the Grandeur I won a free cruise. I don't play bingo much and I just felt lucky that day. We took the cruise at the end of February on the Independence and had a great time.

[FinelyCruising]

I won Jackpot Bingo on Mercury quite a few years ago. I had no spit left in my mouth, my heart was pounding in my chest when I stood, and I just about thought I was going to pass out and die.

 

It was a three way tie and we got about $750 each, but that was OK with me. It was an absolute hoot.:D

[liketraveling]

I just got back from RT San Diego to Hawaii on the HAL Zaandam.

 

It was 4 days over and 5 days back. They had two sessions a day and HAL still uses the punch cards. You get three games for $20.00.

 

I must have been on a luck streak because I won 5 times during the cruise. The Accumlated total was approximately $500.00.

 

I was on the Celebrity Millenium when the started the machines. They were something like $49.00 to play. Since this was a port intensive itenary they didn't have bingo every day. There were maybe 7 sessions throughout the cruise. On Bingo days I would only play once a day because of the cost. I did win $171.00 one game. It was split three ways. The pots are bigger with the electronic machines but allot less people show up.

[Texed]

A friend of our won $8000.00 on Solstice. She didn't give me a cent. :)

[kcb]

A friend of our won $8000.00 on Solstice. She didn't give me a cent.

 

She didn't give me anything either! ;)

[AlanAllyn]

On our cruise on the Equinox last December, the prize the first day was the Presidential Suite; it was the only vacant cabin.

[H2Oregon]

We went to bingo on the last day of a cruise. The jackpot was over $5,000. In line getting bingo card and the guy in front of us was trying to decide if he really wanted to spend the money for a bingo card. He went back and forth about how much it cost and if he should buy a card. He finally decided to buy the bingo card. Well, you guessed it, he won the the $5,000. If only he had left and we got the card.

[cruie4ever]

Hi,

Has anyone won something awesome at Bingo? What did you win?

 

Beth

10 days and counting til we board Summit!

 

Playing bingo on a cruise ship is a huge rip off . Best odds is either the tenty one table or craps. We NEVER play bingo

[shofer]

We did a RT LA to Hawaii 1/15/06 w/3 of my cousins and their husbands. Since there were 8 sea days, there was bingo every day. All of us won something but the last day in the morning session, DH won $140.

 

We all headed to the JACKPOT BINGO that afternoon and were all empty handed until the last game when I finally got to stand up w/one number left. There were several people already standing and the next number he called got no response. DH asked what number I needed and I told him I-18. The next number he called was mine, only getting out "I-eight-" before DH was screaming "BINGO".

 

I heard all this cheering but couldn't imagine where it was coming from since everyone around me was giving me dirty looks. It was all of my cousins/hubbies cheering for me. Their first words were. "You are buying drinks tonight". I told them, "Miller High Life for everyone".

LOL.

 

It was the last night of the cruise and I had to share it w/one other person but took home $1734. That was my cruise, since I had also won consistently in the casino @ 3 card poker every night, taking home $1400 from that. I might have won more, but when I had won $100, I quit and took my black chip back to the room safe.

 

I have never duplicated that kind of luck since then anywhere else; cruise ship or land based casino.

[Beth AC]

These are fabulous stories! How cool to win the presdential suite for 8 nights! As for odds of winning... they don't really matter to me. We leave on Saturday for 8 nights on Summit, which I won! There were 1000 raffel tickets sold, and I had 3 of those.

So really, it's all about the fun, since I'm already ahead!

Beth

[Nancyquilts]

Play for the fun. The big winner is the ship. Wonder how much they make on each game?;)

[ramman]

On our cruise on the Equinox last December, the prize the first day was the Presidential Suite; it was the only vacant cabin.

 

 

There's a "Presidential Suite" on the Equinox? Interesting, it does not show on their deck plans, or in their listings of staterooms. :)

[CruisenGoddess]

In 2002 I took my daughter on her first cruise, spring break - we played bingo everyday. I won the cruise and called and told my husband and he didn't believe it - the phone call cost $55. He did believe it when we got home. This was with NCL and at that time you could pick any cruise, we picked the Baltic Capitals and had to pay our own air and taxes on the cruise, then we were upgraded to an oceanview cabin. They never 1099'd either :D

 

Then on the Brilliance of the Seas hubby and I was playing bingo, (he's slow checking numbers) and I saw he had bingo and nudged him he got up and yelled BINGO, but they never heard him and called then next number (we were in the balcony) - so needless to say they didn't honor it even though people up in the balcony were yelling. :(

[CruisenLexie]

These are fabulous stories! How cool to win the presdential suite for 8 nights! As for odds of winning... they don't really matter to me. We leave on Saturday for 8 nights on Summit, which I won! There were 1000 raffel tickets sold, and I had 3 of those.

So really, it's all about the fun, since I'm already ahead!

Beth

 

Lucky you :) How much fun is that and in the Presdential suite no less :D HAVE A GREAT CRUISE!!!

[bocamom61]

I split a jackpot on the Millenium in 2004 which was great...it was a pot for about 3000 after a seven day cruise. Won 500 in alaska on RCCL, won a bunch of times on NCL. Recently went on Century and was really REALLY disappointed in recent changes. They use the machines which make it boring and they don't have the normal bingo balls in the machine...its computerized. Too easy to cheat...I am a skeptical person. I always liked seeing the balls pop up, etc. Now we have computerized cards and no visable sorting machine.