To some, online bingo might seem like another world and quite frightening.  It’s not, it’s just the same as playing in a bingo hall, the only difference is that you can play in the comfort of your own home, drink what you wish and, perhaps best of all, there’s no smoky atmosphere if you’re a non-smoker!   Just find the bingo site that suits your needs and hope to win.

The UK has build up flotilla of more than 100 bingo halls and 32 casinos since 1930’s, but are now in danger. Already, since the begining of 2007, 59 bingo clubs have been forced to close due to the unfair taxation system and new goverment policies.

Mecca Bingo is giving away two environmentally friendly energy saving light bulbs to its players in an effort to raise funds for the Whizz Kids charity.  Certainly an excellent cause and a good reason to go and play bingo.

From time to time this question hover in my mind, is not about playing bingo but being able to have a good time, socialize, meet your friends and enjoy your time.

Now a days that people are under pressure having to work a lot of hours and sometimes have to do two jobs do they really want to get dressed and go out? At this point technology comes to make things easier.

I did ask my friends if they would prefer to stay at home and play online bingo and i was surprised when they said yes, they recon that is much more fun, they can still talk to the friends plus they have more chances to win with less money. I never thought that I will play bingo online since I used to believe that Bingo is a community game.

I believe that less and less people will choose to continue visiting land based bingo halls. Especially now with the smoking ban around the world I can see people enjoying their freedom at home! 

In the U.K. Bingo is played mainly in large halls with cash prizes, the larger commercial concerns are linked up with other halls during one particular game in the evening and large cash sums can be won on these.

It is also played in nearly every seaside town in the U.K. on screens in front of the player who pulls a slide across to cover the number called, but, presumably because of our gambling laws, there are no cash prizes, just various items like cuddly toys.

The other times Bingo is played, again for prizes, not cash, is in a myriad of local halls or schools around the country, usually as a fund raiser for various concerns like an old people’s Day Centre. Here the prizes are donated by shopkeepers and businesses in the town and surrounding area and the atmosphere at these Bingo games is usually very relaxed and a fun evening out where everyone is welcome, even children.

The prizes vary for these games but on average a prize for any one line is worth about £1.00 – £2.50 (depending on who is organising the bingo evening), any 2 lines would be worth about £2 – £5 and a full house (all the numbers on a card) worth £5 – £10. They could be boxes of chocolates, bottles of wine, a grocery hamper, a voucher from a local butcher for meat or a cream tea for two at a local tea-shop or even 2 free passes to a swimming pool. Anything really

U.K. (and Australian) bingo cards have three lines and nine columns (see picture above) and usually come in “Books”; single or multiple. A single book would contain ten 10 pages (10 cards) each of a different colour: Gold, Lime, Violet, Yellow, Pink, Grey, Orange, Blue, Red and White.

A multiple book has 6 single books. Each page in a multiple book has 6 cards of the same colour. The 6 cards on a page are joined with perforated edges and can be pulled apart. Experienced players will play all 6 books and inexperienced players or young children may only play 1 book, or even a single card.

As well as books, there are also single sheets of bingo cards sold with the 6 sections on (six cards) and these are called “Flyers”. Again you can buy just one section or 6 to suit your pocket or your experience. The flyers cost more per game than on the books but the prizes are usually worth a bit more.

In the large towns and cities Bingo is fairly “big business” and people play in deadly earnest, hoping to win that elusive jackpot. In small towns and villages it’s much more of a social occasion with amateur callers and a lot lighter atmosphere.
Australia uses the same bingo cards as in the U.K. In Sydney and Melbourne the callers are incredibly fast. In Perth they call a lot slower.

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