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Bingo

Create a bingo overlay for community events and interactions in just a few minutes. The overlay and edit links stay available in your bingo list.

Dashboard overview

On this page you set the title, colors, and fonts, open a preview, and manage your existing bingos.

Create a bingo

Enter a Title and choose Background color, Font, and the font sizes for title and tiles. You can open the preview at any time to see the result with sample text in the fields. Click Create bingo when you are done. The bingo then appears in the list with the overlay and edit links.

There are 23 fonts to pick from, grouped by style — sans-serif, comic, gaming, retro pixel, handwriting and more. Many of them can also be set to bold; for fonts that only come in a single weight, the option is greyed out.

OBS overlay

You can add the Overlay link as a browser source in OBS. Use a square resolution, e.g. 800x800. To mark bingo tiles live in stream, right-click the source in OBS and choose Interact. This opens a separate window where you can click the tiles.

Tip: You can reload the bingo in OBS by right-clicking the browser source, opening the properties, and clicking “Refresh cache of current page” at the very bottom.

Live board: tick squares together in the dashboard

Instead of clicking in OBS, you can start a live round and tick the squares right in the dashboard – together with your moderators.

  1. In the list, click Live board on your bingo, then Go live. ByteMate sets the order of the squares at this point (shuffled if you enabled shuffling).
  2. Click a square on the live board to tick it. The overlay in your stream shows the new state within a few seconds.
  3. Moderators with the Bingo permission see the same live board and can tick squares too. If two of them click at the same time, no tick gets lost.

While a live round is running, the overlay only displays – clicks in the browser source have no effect. The tile font size on the live board follows your setting, just scaled down to fit.

  • Reshuffle draws the squares again and clears every tick.
  • Clear ticks keeps the order and only removes the ticks.
  • End live round switches the overlay back: after that, you click in OBS via Interact again.

If you change the texts during a round, they only show up after Reshuffle – the running round is left untouched on purpose. Only changing the grid size draws a new board right away. A live round nobody ends finishes automatically after 24 hours.

Editing and retention

  • The edit link remains available for changes (e.g. texts, font sizes, options).
  • Each channel can have up to 50 active bingos.
  • You can choose whether tiles are shuffled on load.
  • The bingo sound can be disabled.
  • Bingos are available for 7 days. Unlimited duration is a Premium feature.
  • You can delete bingos at any time.

The edit link works without logging in – anyone who has it can change your bingo and tick tiles. Only give it to people you trust, and don't show it on stream. If it has got out anyway, click Generate new link next to it in the list: the old one stops working, and anyone who should keep ticking needs the new one. The same works for the overlay link – enter the new one in OBS afterwards.