Pinoy Bingo Night

Homeviewer game

To play along at home, viewers first needed to get a pre-printed bingo card. These cards were obtained by either mailing in proof-of-purchase from the show’s sponsors or by buying enough of a sponsor’s products to hit a certain spending threshold. During each episode, twenty numbers were drawn. For a card to be a winner, nine of those numbers had to line up in an X-shaped pattern. A winning card could be traded in for a daily cash prize of ₱150,000. There was also a bonus cash prize of ₱50,000, but to qualify for that bonus, the card’s serial number had to be registered by sending an SMS. If no registered card won the bonus on a given day, another ₱50,000 was added to the bonus pot for the next day. If more than one person held a winning card, they split the daily ₱150,000 prize, regardless of whether they had registered. However, only one registered card holder could take the bonus prize; if multiple registered cards won, the bonus was decided by a raffle. Each card was good for one week (covering five episodes), but the set of balls drawn for the home game changed each day, and those balls were completely separate from the ones used in the studio games.

A separate game for home viewers was also introduced. In this one, viewers had to watch the episode, note the very last ball drawn in each of the two studio games, and send that number via SMS. The cash prize for the winning viewer depended on what happened in those studio games. If one solo player won a million pesos, the home viewer got ₱100,000. If both solo players each won a million, the home viewer took ₱200,000. If both solo players were beaten by at least one studio contestant each, the winning viewer received ₱10,000. After the show changed to only one game per episode, the rules were slightly adjusted so that viewers simply had to note the last ball drawn in that single game.