Its also sad to see them push and upsell even more and sell last minute Jackpot cards to upsell and make people think they can win. I know people play for the fun of it and people do win $$ but I just feel that it is wrong to advertise and say you will give away thousands of dollars when they know no one will ever win the Jackpot. To me I hate how Bingos are fixed this way. And you guessed it, yes the 46th ball it was a G and the next 5 balls after. When it came up to the 45th ball, there were only 4Gs called which meant no Jackpot Bingo was possible. On my recent cruise, I noticed that a lot of the Bs Is Ns and Os were called but very few Gs were called. In the old fashion way, yes this is possible because it is totally random and a computer is not 'calling' the balls. Now it seems like you have to get full card Bingo within a certain amount of balls called. I also remember on the last day on the cruise EVERYONE played because the Jackpot MUST go and people would win thousands of dollars. They even had someone come up to the stage to verify that all the bingo balls were there.
I remember when they used the ping pong balls and the machine spit out the balls.
I noticed now that most cruiselines use the electronic bingo where the cruise staff presses a button and the computer generates the numbers.
