Friday, February 25, 2011

The Popularity Of Online Bingo Sites

By Accombli Engliza


If it wasn't for the Italian lottery, otherwise known as "Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia", the game of bingo, as we know it, might not have come into existence. The Italian lottery has been an ongoing affair since 1530, and soon the French had their own version, called "Le Lotto". Nowadays, lotto games have found their way into educational uses, whereby children receive early exposure to numbers, or anything else that involves some kind of numerical or pictorial matching game.

Online bingo is wonderful, because there's always a game starting within minutes, and it's all automated. The bingo servers will create your bingo cards, select the winning pattern, and start calling numbers, all thanks to the magic of random number generators. If you've never played online bingo before, you might want to spend some time looking around your selected bingo site, finding the rules and getting a feel for things so you understand how to play, that you understand the winning patterns (some sites can have some difficult patterns to match) and how to claim a bingo, should luck smile down on you. In some games, you'll only need a winning pattern on a single card, while in other games you might need winning patterns on multiple cards.

Non-online bingo has always been a bit of a social affair, so most bingo sites will give you a chat window so you can make new friends, or give old ones a bit of a bad time (but don't get too wild, or someone might flag you as "abusive"). Winning bingo games happens rarely, but the other players and a chance to chat is always there.

Online bingo sites offer various ways of offering prizes to their players. Some sites play simple games with low dollar amount rollover jackpots. Other sites will award points to their players which can be traded in for cash prizes. Some sites will offer large cash jackpots in which the odds of winning are so low that the prize will only be won once every month or so.

Like slot machines, bingo payouts can be controlled by the site owners, because the odds of winning within a given number of called numbers can easily be figured out, depending on the number of players, and the level of difficulty of coming up with a winning pattern.

Typing "online bingo sites" into a search engine will come up with lots of places to check out, and it shouldn't take long to find one with which you're comfortable. Whether you decide to play for the big bucks, or the smaller jackpots, or just to collect points, there are always lots of other people out there playing at the same time, hoping to win, and hoping to find other good people with which they can spend their time.




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