National Bingo Night

The game is an interactive experience for both the studio audience and viewers at home. On NBN, members of the studio audience attempted to win a game of bingo while competing with a solo studio contestant. For Bingo America, it is played as a straight general knowledge quiz format with two players and a home viewer bingo game within.

Home viewers play along with pre-printed game cards that are available from the network website just before each episode airs, and are also eligible to win prizes. For example, on the premiere of NBN, prizes included gift cards from show sponsor Kmart, a trip to the Indianapolis 500, a seven-night cruise from Royal Caribbean, a visit to the set of fellow ABC series The View and Ugly Betty, and a CD from the music group Rascal Flatts.

The show was expected to return for a five-episode run during the week of December 17, 2007. However on November 13, 2007, ABC decided to replace it instead with its new game show, Duel. In 2008, the show was cancelled and was afterward shopped to other networks. Eventually GSN acquired the rights and the game was repackaged into a five-day-a-week 30-minute version with modifications listed below.

Each hour-long episode of NBN was divided into three games - Red, White, and Blue. Only cards with the correct designation were eligible to win prizes. Unlike the audience members, studio contestants did not actually have a bingo card. Instead, they participated in stunt games; for example, a simulated automobile race or a simulated wedding. During these games, they took guesses on what the next ball to be drawn from an over-sized bingo drum will be. On the premiere the choices were: higher or lower than the one before it (first selection is based on the player's age), odd or even, or with red or black decals (later changed to red or black numbers to avoid the confusion which happened on the premiere) like a roulette wheel.

On at least two occasions, the stunt was to draw balls that contained a certain number, such as five 5's ("High Five"; drawing G-55 would count for two 5's) or four 9's ("Baseball")

If the contestant successfully completes the stunt before anyone in the studio audience gets a bingo, the contestant wins one of various prizes. If not, then an audience member wins $5,000 (or a prize the studio contestant failed to win on at least one occasion). In the event that the in-studio contestant completes their game and an audience member gets a bingo, only the audience member wins; this fact caused much criticism, especially as the segments usually took much longer than what was aired.

All games were winner-take-all - non-winning contestants received nothing (not even consolation prizes).

Spin-Offs
[Bingo America] - a different version of National Bingo Night on GSN.