BINGO RULES

Bingo was once described to me as "Community Lotto" which is a pretty good way to sum it up. The game of Bingo itself is a very simple lottery but with a strong community built around it which makes it one of the most fun and addictive gambling pass-times for people of all ages. Once seen as a game limited to seniors, Bingo has really hit the mainstream in recent times and with the advent of online bingo gaming, it's appeal can only continue to grow.

Bingo is played in halls. Bingo rules and payouts and play variations vary from place to place. Bingo brochures detailing particular games, rules and payouts are usually available at each respective location.

The standard of Bingo games is easy: every player buys a bingo card, which is most often a paper card with 75 random numbers printed on it. The bingo has a rotating bin from which he or she would pull balls marked with numbers in a fashion that is very akin to lottery. The host reads the number aloud. If a player has the drawn number on his or her bingo card, they would mark it. The first player to complete a certain pattern of numbers wins. Bingo is a table game, however, unlike anything you've ever seen. Bingo has some similarities to roulette, lottery and poker, but it's actually neither of them as bingo is most certainly a game of its own dimension. The name "Bingo" comes from the original game which was played with beans and stones.

A winning player would have announced "Bean go!" and this is why modern players would scream "Bingo" every time they have a complete card in their hands. Once u understand the rule completely then there is something which interest you and will help you to play well and that betting in bingo. In the most popular symptom of the game the player must cross (mark) 5 numbers in a column, a row or a diagonal. A 25-number card is given out to the players, with random numbers ranging from 1 to 75 printed on it. The columns are marked with the word "Bingo", from left to right, each letter corresponding to a column.

Each column will only contain numbers proportional to its position, that is, first column will contain 5 random numbers from the range between 1 to 15, the second column will contain numbers from 16-30 and so on. A number can only appear once on a bingo card. Sometimes such a bingo card would have its central cell already marked out. Playing bingo in a community hall or in your local church does not seem to register with the ideas that a casino or poker holds. But don’t give up on Bingo just yet, there is vulnerability to the game of established bingo and while it may be minimal and hardly worth terrifying a player who enjoys the game socially and for fun.

HOW TO PLAY BINGO ONLINE

To play online Bingo you have to register on the game site. It’s the same in a Bingo Hall, or Casino, the site needs to know who you are. If you are playing for money then it is better to open an account with the Bingo site and deposit money into that account to play. Any winnings are credited to this account for you to withdraw or use to play again. Before you commit to expenses any money, many sites let you play for free, but you still need to register your details. As a new player, a site may offer you some tips and free points, which you convert to cash to start playing (typically 1 or 2).

When you join a game you will not be alone, there will be lots of other people also registered at that site who are playing, and most offer a chat room facility for you to ‘meet’ your fellow players. You may find you chat a lot more at an online Bingo site than in a traditional hall where it’s not always so easy to talk to strangers. Once you are online you will find there are sites dedicated to Bingo, and other sites that offer all sorts of gaming from roulette through to Mahjong. As a woman aged 30-50 years you’ll find that you are the main type of player, but men do play, as do other age groups. Five years ago you could count the number of Bingo sites on two hands, now there are hundreds in the UK, thousands worldwide, in line with other forms of gaming.

If you have ever been to a Bingo Hall, or played Bingo as part of a charity fundraising event, or maybe at a party, then online Bingo is basically the same game, it’s just you are most likely playing sat at home. The basics of the game are that you get, or buy, a randomly allocated Bingo card, which has grids with numbers on. Some balls with numbers on are randomly selected and you check your card to see if you have that number, and tick it off on the card. You’ll win a prize if you are the first to tick off all the numbers on your card, and it’s called a BINGO.

That’s the basic game, which can then be jazzed up to offer prizes for certain numbers, or a pattern on the card, or first person to complete a card in a set number of balls etc. To increase your chances of winning you buy more cards (but this will cost you more). When you play face-to-face Bingo in a hall, you have to check your card, and make sure you tick off the numbers (hence the caller shouting “Eyes Down”). When you play on-line, your card is mechanically checked for you, so you do not have to be quite as alert, or even paying any attention. Typically a Bingo card is very reasonably priced, at 10p to 1. Big prize jackpot games will have more expensive cards, or a minimum purchase value of 5.

Oh and yes, the community. This is probably by far the most important aspect for many bingo gamers with the gambling itself being a welcome addition to the social side of things. Virtually all online bingo game sites have a thriving community of friendly, regular players and the bingo world is one of the most varied and accomodating there is. You'll come to play bingo and keep coming back for all the friends you have made!