Players can buy additional tickets called flyers with single sheets of six tickets per sheet. The term card is usually used with the American seventy-five number version of the casino game online. Cards have a five number by five number playing grid with the letters of the word bingo printed across the top. A regular play UK bingo is a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line and sometimes four corners, depending on the house rules. Players can buy the cards in packets or booklets with the number depending on the house rules. They can also pick out their cards and buy them singly. Most establishments require the purchase of a separate entry card. Players who do not have this entry card are not eligible to collect a prize. So to be technically correct, the term card is used with the American version and the term ticket is used with the British version.

Some people use the terms cards and tickets interchangeably even though that isn’t technically correct. The term ticket is used with the British ninety number version of the game to denote the nine columns by three row rectangular playing grid. A regular online bingo game is one line, with specials being two and three lines. Tickets come in ten different colors: gold, lime, violet, yellow, pink, grey, orange, blue, red and white.  These tickets come in single or multiple books. The single book has one ticket of each color for a total of ten tickets. The multiple book contains six tickets of each color for a total of sixty tickets. The different colors are used for the different games.