@Rosegirl387 I agree with you it would be nice to be able to play without buying tickets. There are 3 wins to have tickets to play. One is to win them if the balloons popped award them. But sometimes not enough tickets are given. When that happens another way is to buy them with Poppit bingo money you have or win. Finally, if you are too low on Poppit money, then the final option is to buy Poppit money with gems that you have to buy for real money. But only paying members can do that. And that might be the reason for needing to use tickets to play the game. It encourages one to have a paid membership. If you don't have enough Poppit money to buy tickets, Pogo brings in revenue from the gems to buy to play the games. That is a complaint of many players and one reason I stopped being a paying member.