Fun and Facts - Articles from the World of Bingo

Bingo Daubers - Mark your cards right

Bingo daubers are the special felt-tipped marker pens that players use to mark their numbers in regular bingo clubs. Virtual daubers are also used in the online game for the same purpose, but at most online sites the numbers are daubed automatically for the player – something that comes in very handy when you’re playing a dozen or more cards at once.

What Women Want

What women want is something that has vexed some of the greatest minds in history, and also spawned a movie starring Mel Gibson, but we still haven’t made much progress in figuring out what women want. Until now, that is. Party Bingo are currently running television commercials that tell us exactly what women want, and the answer – listen up Mel – is bingo online!

Bingo Chat-Games

Bingo chat games are secondary games that take place alongside the main bingo game. Chat games are played in the chat window which is used to conduct conversations with other bingo players, and they are usually run by the Chat Moderator. Prizes often come in the form of bonus bingo loyalty points, free tickets for cash games or, in some places, modest cash prizes.

Calculating the House Edge

Have you ever wondered how much money an online bingo site keeps back from each game? If you have then you will be pleased to learn that calculating this “house edge” is fairly straightforward, and in a few moments we’ll explain how it is done. But first, perhaps we ought to explain why would calculating the house edge can be of use to the average bingo player.

A Question of Timing

Does it matter when you play bingo? This is a question that can be answered in one of two ways. If all you want from your bingo experience is the game itself, and things like prize money and conversation are secondary benefits as far as you are concerned then the answer is no. You can play bingo at 8am or 8pm and still get the satisfaction of the game itself.

75 Ball vs 90 Ball

In a recent online bingo room chat conversation, players were asked whether they had a preference for playing 75 ball or 90 ball bingo games. Apart from the usual comments that some preferred 75 ball because the patterns add a touch of variety to the game, and that some preferred 90 ball because it was the game they had grown up with, one player said something that we think is worth exploring.

Four Helpful Habits

There are four habits which will help you to get more from your online bingo experience - all you have to do is adopt them and notice the difference they make...

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".