What's new on BingoHoster
Everything we have added, newest first. If you would like something that is not here, tell us on Facebook or X.
Live rooms start with just one player
- No more waiting for a second player: if you are the only one in a live room at the two-minute mark, the game starts and labelled bots fill the empty seats.
- Bots in the live rooms now play one or two tickets each.
A multiplayer bingo guide and player card steps on the live page
- A new guide to multiplayer bingo: every way to play with other people, how many can join, the live chat and your player card.
- The live rooms page shows how to set up your player card in three steps, with a Pick a room button back up to the rooms.
Live rooms, player cards and a tidier site on phones
- Live rooms: three public rooms, slow, medium and fast, open to everyone. A new game starts on every five-minute mark once two people are waiting.
- Play for one line, two lines and a full house against players everywhere, with a chat, XP for every game and a weekly leaderboard.
- The live rooms show how many players are online now, waiting and in a game.
- Live rooms sit with the other ways to play on the homepage, the game modes page and the guides.
- Usernames: your name plus a four-character tag, like Linda#K7MQ, so two players with the same name are told apart. It moves to a new device with your code.
- Tap a player's name in a live room to see their player card: picture, level, XP, wins and badges.
- Find a player by name or username and add them as a bingo buddy. Your buddies show whether they are playing or waiting in a live room right now.
- Twenty pictures to choose from for your player card and your seat in the live rooms.
- Your player card shows your total XP, which is never spent, and a bar to your next level. Solo games earn a tenth of the XP of a game with people.
- Ten badges, each in six steps from bronze to diamond: 1, 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100.
- Points: every new level and every badge step earns points for the BingoHoster Store, coming soon with new pictures, stages, ball styles and card designs. Points can't be bought and have no cash value.
- Back up your player card: copy your code, save it as a file or send it to yourself.
- On the homepage, Join with a code opens a box right there at the top: type a game's code or paste its invite link.
- On phones the homepage stage looks as it does on a laptop, the game modes fit on one screen, and the setup pages and your player card use the whole width.
- 75-ball on phones: your cards in reading order, a smaller number board, and a gold ring on the dot of any page with a number left to dab.
- The language picker has moved to the footer.
- Fixed: the rooms' props stand clear of the caller, the board and the cards again, in every theme.
A whole new look
- A new homepage on a real stage, with a live game playing in the hero and every way to play in one place.
- New 3D bingo balls in every game, each ten in its own colour.
- New artwork for the Birthday, Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Summer Beach and Space themes, with the props standing on the stage and a ghost that peeks out at Halloween.
- The Trainer theme is now the Pokémon theme, with a night stage, the characters and its own Poké Ball number balls.
- Every plain theme has its own accent colour, and the setup pages and join screens stand on a stage in your theme's colours.
- Change the theme from the game's top row, mid-game, and mute the setup music from the top bar.
- New pictures in the guides, both videos remade, and a new footer on every page.
- Fixed: every call on screen now matches what the caller says, and The Hoster's 75-ball board fits a phone.
Security updates
- Behind the scenes: the site's framework was updated with the latest security fixes.
Bigger boards on laptops
- On a laptop, Solo, The Hoster and Play Online Together fill the window: the menu sits inside the game box and the board takes the space.
- The current number's ball has a curved Current number label, and every number sits in its centre.
- A cleaner top to the homepage, with no menu bar.
Closest cards first
- A new Advanced setting moves the cards nearest a win to the front. It is off unless you turn it on, in every mode.
- The three ways to play now sit at the top of the guides, so a game is one tap from any of them.
Prizes for lines, and Halloween
- The Hoster and Play Online Together can play for a line, two lines and a full house in 90-ball. Full house alone is still the default.
- A Halloween homepage for October.
- The special themes now sit in The basics in every builder.
Fairer checks
- When a player calls BINGO, the host's check now shows every one of their tickets, however many they have.
Tell us what you think
- A quiet link to leave a review, in the footer and on your player card. It asks once and never again.
- Behind the scenes: the stylesheet and the game screens were split into smaller pieces, with every screen photographed before and after to prove nothing moved.
Patterns, Zoom, offline play and more
- 36 named 75-ball patterns in the game builder, each drawn out, from four corners to blackout, plus a bingo patterns library page you can play from.
- A step-by-step guide to bingo on Zoom, Teams and Meet.
- The card generator now prints up to 500 unique cards in one set.
- The site installs to your phone's home screen and Solo plays offline once you have opened it.
- Bingo numbers 1 to 75 with letters, alongside the 1 to 90 page.
- Pick a theme on the homepage and every game mode opens in it.
- Motion in the game: the ball drops in, dabs stamp with a ripple, the board bursts, a card one number away breathes gold.
The caller page and the guides
- Bingo calls page with a play button on every number and the story behind the classics.
- Bingo numbers 1 to 90, a printable checklist with every call.
- Play with friends rebuilt as a step-by-step guide with real screenshots and a 14-second video.
- New pages for birthday bingo, Christmas bingo, bingo for seniors and printable bingo cards with five ready-made PDF sets.
- A branded page for lost links.
Quick mode and the player card
- Quick mode: three cards, three bots, no setup, one tap from the game chooser.
- Advanced settings folded away so the builders show only the basics first.
- A player card on this device: XP, levels, streaks and eight badges, with no account.
- A win card after every full house with Play again, Change setup and Your badges.
- On phones the latest number and the BINGO button ride at the top of the screen once the caller scrolls away.
- Wider play area on every game screen on phones.
Say hello on Facebook and X
- BingoHoster is on Facebook and X, linked from the footer.
- A new link-preview card for shared links.
Analytics with consent
- One optional analytics cookie behind a consent banner, declined by default. Nothing else is tracked.
Living rooms and a sharper caller
- The special themes came alive: falling snow, drifting stars, party lights, waves and a haunted room.
- The music cuts as the countdown begins on every mode.
- Called numbers stand out more on every theme.
- The spoken caller no longer sticks on iPhones.
Three modes, named
- The three ways to play are now The Hoster, Solo and Play Online Together.
- 75-ball tickets sit three across on a computer and two across on a phone, with swipe pages when you hold more than a screenful.
- Fundraising wording checked against UK rules, and privacy, terms and accessibility pages added.
Rooms that hold together
- Players in a private room see each other's progress live.
- Tickets in a room match Solo exactly on every screen size.
- Print your tickets from the room and play on paper if you prefer.