The pull tabs might be hard to explain in this format, but we’ll give it a shot. “You can buy 50 cents worth or $100.50 worth,” Doughty said.

“Believe it or not, it’s not all that expensive to play,” Haskins said. But that’s not including the pull tab games, which we didn’t even know existed until we connected with the local bingo experts. You can spend as little as $15 for a pack of 12 bingo cards with a couple winner-take-all cards or as much as $36 where you still get the winner-take-all, but with 36 regular game cards. Do you want to just play bingo? Cause there’s 15 different games, many with different objectives and some that have more than one prize to win.

Who knew you could win that kind of money outside of Vegas, let alone in little ol’ Concord.Īnd if you’ve never been to a Shriners bingo night, checked out Airport Road Bingo or played elsewhere, it might be a little intimidating walking in the door for the first time. “It’s a great thing and people come out for all the right reasons,” Doughty said. Heading into last weekend, the Airport Road Bingo affair, which is held Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, the total of similar jackpots were over $30,000. Now that’s only if the carryover coverall, which was up to $7,766, and the big money in the Trifecta pull tab (valued at $8,800) both hit along with a bunch of the other pots in the pull tab games.

“I was one of the guys out on the floor selling the pull tab tickets,” Doughty said. If all the rollovers and payouts hit, Lloyd Doughty, who has run bingo at the Shriners for the last year, would have paid out close to $23,000. Sure, there were retirees filling out cards as a volunteer called out I-22, G-53 or whatever ball popped up next, and it was in a large hall, but this is a serious operation with a lot of money at stake. ’Cause we checked out bingo night at the Bektash Shriners last Thursday and it’s way more popular and involved than TV ever led us to believe. Well, this is just another instance when television has failed us. Our years of television consumption taught us that bingo is a game played by retirees, sitting in a large hall with another retiree pulling balls out of a spinning wheel. Look at all those balls for one little game of carryover coverall.

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