Bingote

Bingote Slot Review

Windmill monsters, a castle belonging to somebody called Diamantea, and armour to loot: Bingote dresses its 90-ball bingo in full fantasy costume. It’s made by Neko Games, and it carries more machinery than plenty of five-reel slots bother with – four separate bonus games, a shield-collection jackpot ladder, and a paid buying decision that repeats itself up to twelve times a round.

The argument in its favour is all of that sitting on top of a familiar bingo core: up to four fifteen-number tickets, thirty balls drawn, patterns to complete. It runs at 95.09% RTP with high volatility and a 64.28% hit frequency, with bets from 0.20 to 40.00.

Neko Games have made this hybrid format their speciality – Don Hidalgo Ultra Link&Win and Super Showball Mystery Link&Win cover similar ground – but Bingote carries the idea further than most.

Base Game & Features

Each round gives you up to four tickets, every one holding fifteen numbers arranged in five columns and three rows. All four are enabled by default, and you can switch off between one and three of them if you’d rather play a smaller game.

There are no paylines here at all: wins come from completing bingo patterns on your tickets, and a ticket can pay multiple times in one round if entirely new patterns land. Total bet is the bet per ticket multiplied by the number of tickets in play.

You can even change the numbers on each ticket individually before the draw, swapping in a fresh random set if you don’t like what you’ve been given. It’s a small touch of agency that slot players never get.

Thirty balls are drawn from a pool of ninety, and the numbers mark themselves off your tickets automatically. Complete a pattern and you win the prize attached to it.

If a new pattern builds on a pattern you’ve already completed, only the more valuable one pays. The same ticket can carry several patterns at once, and winnings are collected at the end of the round.

Extra Ball Stage

The extra ball stage is where most of the drama lives. It kicks in whenever a ticket sits one number short of a pattern worth 6x or higher once the initial draw is done.

Extra balls are then offered at an additional cost, up to a maximum of twelve before the round ends itself. The price varies as the round goes on, and it tells you nothing about your chances – a dearer ball is no likelier to land than a cheap one.

Wild Ball

A Wild Ball can appear at random during the extra ball stage, and it lets you pick any number on your enabled tickets. If you don’t choose one, the game takes the candidate that pays the higher prize. It’s the one moment of real decision-making in an otherwise automatic game.

Golden Shields

Any ball in the draw can carry a golden shield inside it, and every shield collected during the round stacks up in the jackpots panel at the top of the screen. The count at the end of the round decides which jackpot prize, if any, comes your way.

Bingote’s Bonuses and Jackpots

Bingote Jackpots

The jackpot feature needs all four tickets enabled – play with fewer and it simply isn’t active. Four prizes sit on the ladder, decided purely by how many golden shields you collect by the end of the round:

• 0 to 5 shields: no jackpot
• 6 shields: Bronze jackpot at 60x
• 7 shields: Silver jackpot at 160x
• 8 shields: Gold jackpot at 1,000x
• 9 shields: Bingote jackpot at 5,000x

Diamantea’s Castle Bonus

Completing the Bonus 1 pattern takes you into a five-level picker game played across the windows of Diamantea’s castle. One window per level reveals a cash prize, and a Collect sign ends things where it appears:

• Level 1: four windows, prizes from 60x to 72x, no Collect sign
• Level 2: four windows, prizes from 80x to 104x
• Level 3: four windows, prizes from 120x to 160x
• Level 4: four windows, prizes from 180x to 260x
• Level 5: four windows, prizes from 300x to 500x

Next Level signs can appear at random from levels two to four, and a mystery prize worth between 60x and 500x can land at the end. The bonus also carries a fixed 550x prize tied to the winning pattern.

That fixed payout steps aside if a Bingo prize lands on the same ticket in the same round – the Bingo prize is the only one that overrides it.

Windmills Monsters Bonus

The Bonus 2 pattern opens a second five-level picker, this time with a monster to select on each level:

• Level 1: three monsters, prizes from 28x to 40x
• Level 2: three monsters, prizes from 48x to 60x
• Level 3: three monsters, prizes from 70x to 85x
• Level 4: three monsters, prizes from 100x to 130x
• Level 5: three monsters, prizes from 200x to 350x

An end-of-bonus mystery prize from 28x to 350x can appear, and a fixed 400x prize comes with the pattern, again overridden by a Bingo prize on the same ticket and round.

Armour Bonus

The Bonus 3 pattern is the simplest of the three: a picker with eight armour parts holding prizes from 20x to 80x, plus one Collect sign. It also awards the fixed 400x pattern prize, subject to the same override rule. It’s the quick one.

Extra Ball Purchases

Extra balls are the only thing you can buy in Bingote, and the game shows the current price on the EXTRA button as the stage runs – it shifts as the round develops. Twelve is the ceiling.

Autoplay can handle the buying for you if you’d rather not click through each offer, with separate limits available for single wins and total losses.

Our Honest Verdict

Overall Rating: 7.7/10

A round of Bingote plays like a slow negotiation: thirty balls land, most of your patterns stall, and then the game leans in and asks whether you’ll pay for one more number. That repeated question – twelve times, at a shifting price – is the reason to pick it over any plainer video bingo title. It’s bingo with a pulse.

The strength is how much is tucked into one round: three distinct picker games with real distance between their prize levels, plus a shield ladder that climbs to 5,000x. Diamantea’s castle windows alone give you something to want.

The weakness is that the initial draw alone returns 80%, with the rest of the 95.09% sitting behind the paid extra balls – so the full game only exists if you keep spending. That said, the castle gates are worth opening for players who like decisions with their patterns; reel-spinners after constant motion will find it slow.

Bingote FAQs

• What is the RTP of Bingote?

  Bingote runs at a total RTP of 95.09%. That breaks down into an initial draw RTP of 80.00% and an extra ball stage RTP ranging from 88.70% to 95.52%.
• Is Bingote high volatility?

  Yes, Bingote is a high volatility game, so wins can be spread out, though the pattern-based format gives it a hit frequency of 64.28%.
• How do you win in Bingote if it has no paylines?

  Bingote isn’t a payline game. You win by completing bingo patterns on your enabled tickets using the thirty balls drawn each round. A ticket can pay multiple times if entirely new patterns are completed.
• How does the extra ball stage work in Bingote?

  If a ticket sits one number short of a pattern worth 6x or higher after the initial draw, the game offers extra balls for an additional cost, up to twelve of them. The price of a ball doesn’t affect your chances of winning.
• How do you win the Bingote jackpot?

  You need all four tickets enabled to activate the jackpots feature. Golden shields collected inside the drawn balls fill the jackpots panel, and your final count decides the prize: six shields wins the 60x Bronze jackpot, seven the 160x Silver, eight the 1,000x Gold, and nine the 5,000x Bingote jackpot.
• What is the grid size of Bingote?

  Bingote plays across up to four bingo tickets, each holding fifteen numbers arranged in five columns and three rows, with sixty numbers in play per game.
• What is the minimum and maximum bet on Bingote?

  Bets run from 0.20 to 40.00, with the total bet being your bet per ticket multiplied by the number of tickets you’ve enabled.
• Who makes Bingote?

  Bingote is made by Neko Games, a studio that specialises in video bingo titles.