Music bingo for bars, pubs + taprooms
Turn a slow Tuesday into a full room.
Jackpot Music Game is bingo played with songs instead of numbers. You run it from a browser behind the bar while your customers play along on their own phones, and all you decide is the music and what the prizes are worth. We look after the licensing and cover the jackpot ourselves. A one-hour game costs just $1 per player, and there is nothing to sign.
Jackpot Music Game will always be free for players.
- Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana
- Black Hole Sun Soundgarden
- Zombie The Cranberries
- Under the Bridge Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve
- 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins
- $1WHAT A PLAYER COSTS YOU
- $0Cost to players
- 3Rounds per game
- ~55Minutes start to finish
How it works
Three steps, and none of them need babysitting.
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Schedule it
Log in, pick your night, choose a music category and decide what the winners take home. About two minutes. Most venues settle into a standing weekly slot, but nothing stops you starting one on the spot.
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Announce it
Your game appears wherever players are already looking for something to do on a weeknight, which handles most of the promotion. Regulars tend to start building their week around it, and in our experience they often bring friends.
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Play it
In the hour before you begin, switch your sound system to the app on the laptop, tablet or phone behind the bar. The music runs itself, leaving you free to pour drinks and hand a coupon to whoever finishes their card first.
Round three
There's a progressive jackpot, and we're the ones who pay it.
The third round of every game plays for a progressive jackpot that climbs a little each day, and any player who finishes their card inside the song limit takes the whole thing. None of it comes out of your till. We make the arrangements with the winner ourselves, deal with the paperwork that follows, and make sure the story going out names the room where it happened.
That last piece is usually worth more than owners expect it to be. A jackpot landing is exactly the sort of thing local press likes to pick up, and when they do, your bar is the setting for it.
Funded from game revenue and paid by Progressive Entertainment LLC.
The pot grows every day.
Why venues keep it on the calendar
An hour is a long time to sit somewhere without ordering.
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They stay for the whole hour
A game runs 50 to 55 minutes, which is often times longer than most people intended to stay when they ordered their first drink. Long enough, too, that the kitchen picks up a ticket or two it would never have seen.
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Winners come back
Round prizes are five or ten dollar coupons redeemable on a later visit, so nothing comes off tonight’s margin. You are booking next week’s table at a price you set yourself.
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Nothing for you to install
Your side runs in an ordinary web browser on hardware you already own. Nothing to buy, and nothing to configure beyond the house system or a Bluetooth speaker. Players use the Jackpot Music Game app on their own phones, never yours to troubleshoot.
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You stay in control
You pick the music, set the prizes and run games whenever it suits the room. No outside host is needed, and there are no contracts to sign. Run it whenever you like!
Questions
The things every owner asks first.
Not seeing yours? Email us at info@jackpot.game and we'll answer it.
What is Jackpot Music Game?
Think of it as bingo played with songs rather than numbers. Every player gets their own list of tracks, those tracks play in random order over your speakers, and the first person to check off everything on their card wins whatever prize you have set for that round. Running alongside all of that is the Fast Finger prize, which goes to whoever is quickest to correctly tap each song as it starts. Points build up across the hour and the highest total takes it.
Is this considered gambling?
No, and the reasoning behind that is straightforward: players never stake anything of their own. The game is free to join and has to stay that way, which means venues cannot charge admission to play, cannot make a purchase a condition of playing, and cannot run a game during any period when a cover charge is in effect. Stay inside those three rules and you are on firm ground.
Do I need music licenses to run it?
No, that side of things sits with us rather than with you. We hold blanket licenses with ASCAP (#400012056), BMI (#81207512) and GMR (#6200-0000106) covering playback throughout the United States, and there are no SESAC songs anywhere in the catalog.
How long does a game last?
Each game is built around three rounds and runs to somewhere between fifty and fifty-five minutes. Most venues schedule one game an hour and let them roll on through the afternoon or into the evening.
How much does it cost?
Credits are $1 each, and one credit is deducted for each player after each game. Run a game with three players or with 100 — it'll pay for itself no matter what. Players never pay anything at any stage.
Who runs the game on the night?
You or your staff, working from a laptop, tablet or phone behind the bar. The venue side runs in any modern browser, and most of our venues are on Safari or Chrome without having set anything up specially. There is no host to hire and no equipment to buy.
Do my customers need to download anything?
Yes, players use the Jackpot Music Game app on their own phones and it is a free download. Your side of it works differently: you run games from a browser on the venue's own laptop, tablet or phone, so there is nothing for you or your staff to install and nothing to keep updated. We will give you papers to print out with a QR code so players can download the app without having to ask anyone for help.
What do I give away as prizes?
We would suggest five or ten dollar coupons redeemable on a future visit. Free drinks are prohibited as prizes across a good number of jurisdictions, so coupons keep you comfortably clear of the question while still giving winners a concrete reason to come back. When you open your account we send through a template you can print and cut down yourself.
Run one this week
Opening an account takes a few minutes, and we'll give you $50 in free credits so you can try the game a few times without risking any money at all.
Host a gameJust here to play?
Games are free to enter and there is nothing at all to buy, so a phone and the free Jackpot Music Game app are all you need. Download it once, and after that you can walk into any bar running a game and be playing before the first song finishes.
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