Full Card Minecraft Bingo

Full card is the Minecraft bingo rule where you win by collecting every item on your card instead of completing one row, column, or diagonal. Other bingo games often call this blackout. On BingoMC it is a setting the lobby votes on before a public game starts, and one the owner sets directly in a private game. A full card is 9 items on a 3x3 card, 16 on a 4x4 and 25 on a 5x5, which is 3, 4 and 5 times as many items as a single line. The game ends the moment one player or team has every item on the card. Java Edition players join at play.bingomc.net and Bedrock Edition players at bedrock.bingomc.net on port 19132, in the same games.

Everything else about the game stays the same as normal bingo: the same peaceful survival world, the same item pools and the same card sizes. Those rules are in how Minecraft bingo works. This page covers what changes when the whole card counts.

Full Card, Line And Lockout

BingoMC has three ways to win a game. Full card asks for the most items.

• Line (the default). Complete any row, column, or diagonal on your own card. The full card setting is off.
• Full card. Collect every item on your own card. The full card setting is on.
• Lockout. Everyone shares one card, each item can only be claimed once, and whoever holds the most items wins. Lockout needs the Plus rank to enable.

How Many Items A Full Card Takes

Card size is a separate setting, and it matters far more with full card on, because you need every square instead of a few.

• 3x3: 9 items for a full card, against 3 for a line.
• 4x4: 16 items for a full card, against 4 for a line.
• 5x5: 25 items for a full card, against 5 for a line.

A 3x3 full card is the shortest way to try the mode. A 5x5 full card is the one to vote for when the group has a whole evening.

What A Full Hard Card Contains

In a line game you can skip the worst item on the card by picking a line that avoids it. In a full card game you cannot skip anything, so the difficulty vote decides how long the game takes. How a card is filled is set by the Minecraft bingo item pools:

• Easy uses the easy pool.
• Medium uses medium plus easy.
• Hard uses hard plus medium, and a quarter of the card is reserved for easy items: 2 of 9, 4 of 16 or 6 of 25.
• Grindy uses grindy plus hard, and a quarter of the card is reserved for medium items, with the same 2, 4 or 6 slots. Grindy requires a rank.

At least a quarter of every card also comes from the pool you picked. So a full grindy 5x5 card always means at least 6 grindy entries, and you have to finish all of them. Grindy categories like WAIT (eggs, honeycomb, honey bottles, cake and more) cannot be rushed at all, which is why the hardest items on a bingo card is worth reading before you vote for grindy with full card on.

The nether is a separate yes/no option. Turn it on and the nether pool is added on top of the difficulty pool, and on a full card every nether item it puts on the card has to be fetched, so plan a portal trip early.

How To Play A Full Card

With every square required, there is no cheapest line to pick. Full card play is routing: doing the whole card in the fewest trips.

• Read the whole card first. Type /search to list the item names as text, then sort them by where they come from: trees, stone and ores, a village, a biome, the nether.
• Start the slow items early. Anything that is pure waiting (eggs, honey, crops) should be running in the background while you travel, not something you stand over at the end.
• Do the long trips while your crafting builds up. Biome items and nether items take the most travel, and every craft you can do on the way back is time saved.
• Use the world rules. Keep inventory is on and dying teleports you somewhere new, so a death costs time, not items. The world border is 2500 blocks from 0,0, so every biome hunt stays inside that square.
• In a team, split by destination. Teammates share one card and anything a teammate collects counts for the whole team, so send one player to each part of the route instead of everyone chasing the same item.

More on routing, opening moves and team splits is in Minecraft bingo strategies.

Turning Full Card On

1. Join BingoMC. The how to join guide has the steps for Java and Bedrock.
2. Public game: click the multiplayer NPC in the lobby. Before the game starts, the lobby votes on full card, lockout, card size and difficulty.
3. Private game: create one with the Plus rank and set full card in the game settings. A private game holds up to 16 players, has no automatic timer, and the owner can end it early with /stopgame, which gives the win to whoever has the most items at that moment.

Every voting option and private game setting is listed in the Minecraft bingo server guide, and the private game guide covers join codes and custom cards.