Danish regulator about to publish new online bingo certification program

With the liberalisation of online bingo in Denmark becoming effective from January 1 2018, the Danish regulator Spillemyndigheden has advised that it will soon publish an update to its certification program for the benefit of operators and suppliers.

The requirements in the certification program will reflect the requirements in the executive order. Here are the most significant:

Only online bingo with 75, 80 or 90 numbers/symbols is allowed.
Bingo cards for games with 75 numbers/symbols must have five times five squares.
Bingo cards for games with 80 numbers/symbols must have four times four squares.
Bingo cards for games with 90 numbers/symbols must have three times nine squares.
The sale of bingo cards cannot start until 30 minutes before the game starts.
There must be at least three seconds between the draw/presentation of each number/symbol
The player cannot select numbers/symbols for the bingo card themselves or make changes to their bingo cards. The players are however allowed to select bingo cards between a number of bingo cards randomly generated by the gambling system.
Both manual and automatic marking of drawn numbers/symbols must be possible.
The game must end when the first player has a full bingo card.

The regulator acknowledges that it will be very difficult to have games tested and inspected before the end of this year, but points out that whether or not a bingo game is tested, it must comply with requirements in the coming executive order.

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