I would love to be able to turn rows off for bingo. For instance. If I am doing an “X” shape and we are using the free space, I will not need to draw any of the “N”'s.
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Hi!
Good idea. We have an update coming soon that adds more customizable patterns for bingo. We’re still testing it, so I can’t give a timeframe but it is completed and being tested. So it should be fairly soon.
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Great! Glad to hear. Thanks!
We don’t use the trivia bingo (don’t really like it; can someone really tell the difference between a photo of a vodka tonic and a sloe gin fizz?), but we use the numbers only game often when we’re hosting larger events.
We’re very much looking forward to being able to have different patterns. (Four corners, X, full board, etc.)
We’d love to see a way to end the game and start a new round over that doesn’t require the user to refresh the page or the host to clear the guest responses or require a bunch of linked experiences. Is love to see a “Start New Game with Same Code” button after the game is ended that handles all the back end stuff for us and the player.
We’d love to see a more obvious winner announcement on the host screen - maybe an indication of user name without having to go to the standings screen.
Maybe some better stats for the hosts to help build excitement - “3 players are one away from a bingo!”
We very much enjoy the platform and look forward to it’s upcoming development!
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Copy all @jeff1. Great suggestions. We’re adding many of these very soon. We’re definitely focusing on the experience side of things.
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Any update on the Bingo pattern feature? It’s been a while since this was mentioned as “coming soon”
Thanks!
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It’s been almost a year since I last posted about it…
Any news on any of this? Bingo seems to almost have been completely forgotten about.
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Would be good to have this option
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Agreed. I have emailed a couple of times and requested some updates to Bingo. Its failry useless as it is now. Its not much of a selling point if all anyone has to do is keep clicking without knowing anything. My group would LOVE to play more Bingo but I can’t do it because its only a game of “who can click all of the squares faster” and really…what is the point of that?
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@electrek2000, @jeff1, @jamesh, @AquariumDaily, @jennifer
Thanks for your interest and desire to see a better BINGO product. Heard and appreciated.
I’m fully aware the BINGO is a bit on the half-baked side. And indeed, we have not updated it since we launched it aside from a few bug fixes.
I can’t say when, but it is in the cards for a big iteration and update. When we do that, I will happily post the update here.
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Definitely would love to see updates on Bingo!
I personally was looking for options to make smaller cards, like 2x2 or 3x3s
This would create quicker games and options for everyone.
Pattern wins would also be great.
Is it possible to opt out of the FREE square?
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Hi, looking forward to a new release of Bingo. I currently use Bingo daily and would love to be able to Auto stop the game when a full card is called. Currently the game stops once all squares have been called, so I have to manually stop the game when I see somebody has reached 24 squares. As there is a free square that is un clickable nobody can ever reach 25 squares. If the game auto paused at 24 this would be awesome. Also, allowing for wins on four corners of a Bingo would be great. I am happy to work with you on any future updates to test any features out.
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At our bar we have gotten tired of waiting for Bingo on this platform to be addressed and have found another subscirption service that offers everything everyone has asked for here and more. We just can’t keep waiting and waiting…
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I have seen that Bingo is not the primary focus for Crowd Purr. My places love this platform and I just have to do more work on my end to make this option happen.
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What other subscription service are you using? Crowdpurr Bingo isn’t making the grade for our bar.
Please respectfully refrain from posting links to competitors in the forum. This forum is for discussing Crowdpurr.
Please feel free to DM one another or search Google for other bingo providers.
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Bingo updates are coming! We’re about to release a series of updates to bingo to address some of the comments in this thread. Here’s a quick taste of Bingo Patterns which is the first feature that will drop in the next few days. It adds new patterns that can be configured for each bingo game.
I would like to also ask a few questions to the group here about the handling of certain features and how they should work. Here’s the first couple questions:
- Would a Progressive Bingo Patterns feature be useful? For example, only the first bingo pattern would be active, then after X amount of bingos on that pattern (e.g. could be one to many) then the next pattern activates, and so on. So basically each pattern is only earned by one (or more) players.
- If Progressive Bingo Patterns is useful, how would you like to see the handling of previously earned bingos that weren’t active. For example, if only Rows is active, and a player marks the squares for a Columns bingo it wouldn’t earn a bingo. But then when Columns goes active, does their existing Columns set of squares instantly earn them a bingo? Or do they have to mark another Columns bingo on newly called squares? If you go with the first option, then it’s likely in a larger game that someone will already have whatever bingo pattern gets activated which could make it less fun. Then if that pattern shuts down after however many bingos, I could see it just zipping through all the patterns seemingly instantly.
- Would a feature to only allow players to have one bingo (or X amount) be useful? Currently we have the Allow Multiple Bingos switch, but it always enabled because we never implemented this - where when disabled a player could only earn one bingo. If so, what is the benefit or use-case of this feature? Would there be some benefit to only allowing a player to earn a single bingo. Then, afterward they can keep marking squares and just not earn any more bingos?
- Would a feature to end the game after the very first bingo be useful? Meaning, everyone is playing, marking squares, etc. Then, for example, if a square is called that allows five players to mark it and thus complete a bingo, Crowdpurr would only actually award one player the bingo and the other players would receive a “Sorry, someone completed a bingo before you marked your square” (etc) type message? Then the game would end because a bingo was earned?
I’d love to hear this thread’s comments on the above questions!
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