Fun and Facts Archive - Articles from the World of Bingo

Bingo Is Actually Good For You!

As any regular will be only too happy to tell you, playing bingo online can be a lot of fun. The excitement of seeing your numbers come up one by one and the anticipation of winning are both very enjoyable emotions. But there are other benefits over and above the obvious "fun factor" of entertainment. In fact, science has discovered that bingo is actually good for you!

Bingo 10 Cash Commandments

As well as being a heck of a lot of fun in its own right, online bingo is also a money game. We get excited not just because we want to cover a particular pattern on our cards before anyone else, but because we stand to win a cash prize if we succeed. Sometimes we'll win modest amounts. At other times we might win a four or five figure progressive jackpot. Whatever the amount, it's the involvement of real cash that gets the adrenaline pumping.

Bingo Banking

Although online bingo is a game of luck rather than skill, we can still benefit from adopting the same kind of money management principles that online poker players use to make sure they don't run out of cash. These principles aren't complicated or difficult to apply, but they can help to make your online bingo more enjoyable simply because you know you're playing sensibly.

Winning Bingo Strategies

At the very outset of this article, we have to say that bingo - whether it's played in a traditional bingo hall or online - is strictly a game of chance. The numbers called are generated entirely at random, and no matter how much we might like to be able to influence Lady Luck to give us a bit of an edge, we simply can't. There are no secret play strategies that we can use to make our numbers come up, or make one of our bingo cards more likely to win that any other.

A Guide To Chat Room Lingo

Because chat rooms require players to communicate by typing on a keyboard, a number of abbreviations and short-cuts have been invented for common phrases and sayings. These are usually typed in lower case, as in the listings below, but use of upper case means the same thing. For example, "brb" and "BRB" both mean "Be right back".

Bingo Chat Conduct

When you visit a regular bingo hall, you quickly learn to conduct yourself in a certain way so that you and other players have the best bingo experience possible.

Profit From Bingo Promotions

Online bingo sites are businesses just like those you find on the high street. And just as shops on the high street like to compete with each other by giving their customers special offers and putting on sales, so online bingo sites try to attract customers by setting up reward schemes and offering special promotions.

The Advantages of Playing Online Bingo

More and more bingo fans are choosing to play online instead of venturing out to a traditional game in a bricks-and-mortar building. But why? What’s so appealing about the online version of the game? And what specific advantages does online bingo have over the game played in a regular bingo hall? These are all good questions, and our normal response is to list just some of the main advantages reported by online bingo players themselves. Here is our lucky seven...

Bingo History - UK

If you’re wondering where the United Kingdom is in all of this then you’ll be pleased to hear that Bingo was regulated under the Gaming Act of 1968. This allowed bingo to be played in members-only clubs, which were previously used as dance halls and accordingly well presented. You were expected to dress up to visit these clubs, as it was a real evening out. The game of bingo was also dressed up to suit the occasion, with numbers being given nicknames such as “legs” 11 and “two little ducks” 22.

Bingo through the Ages

Whilst online bingo might possibly be the only exciting thing to come from men’s obsession with modern day technological wizardry (at least, that’s our opinion), the game itself isn’t new at all. In fact, it’s been around for almost five hundred years! Of course, the game itself has changed somewhat over the years, so let’s take a brief look at how our favourite pastime has evolved into what it is today...