What is Internet Bingo
Written by Nicole Martin
Sat, 2 Jun 2007
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Have you ever wondered what internet bingo is? Internet bingo is basically playing a game of bingo over the internet. You’ll be able to sit in the comfort of your own home, playing against and with people from all around the world.
In the past, bingo was played in land-based bingo halls, which was your typical church or town center where a group of bingo players would get together and play bingo games. It took a few years and some intense technology improvement to move bingo from churches or town centers to online websites. All bingo sites have relative articles on rules, tips and strategies on how to play bingo and therefore, improvement your bingo game. There are many jackpots at each respective bingo website.
In order to play internet bingo or bingo at a land-based bingo site, the player must purchase bingo cards. These cards have numbers printed on them in a 5 to 5 grid corresponding to the five letters in the word B-I-N-G-O. For example, numbers are drawn like B-4 or G-19. Numbers are drawn randomly so that everyone has a fair chance of winning. In America, bingo numbers range between 1 and 75 whereas Australian and British bingo, numbers range between 1 and 90 also known as 90-ball bingo. Once someone completes the corresponding bingo game pattern with all the numbers in order, they’ll be given the jackpot or the prize. Online bingo sites have many other bingo patterns besides the normal vertical, horizontal or diagonal patterns like the alphabet patterns or the number patterns.
Land-based bingo halls have thousands of different, unduplicated cards to choose from. Manufacturers print both 6000 and 9000 unduplicated cards for bingo games. When you play online, you can choose between 50,000 bingo cards-all unique. Bingo sites can easily pick bingo cards for you, according to their software. Most online bingo halls allow players a maximum of 32 to 50 bingo cards per player and others automatically assign all the players, playing a specific bingo game, the same number of cards to eliminate the advantage of other players playing with a maximum amount of bingo cards.
The numbers are all called out by the Caller at traditional bingo halls, while it is the responsibility of the player to keep track of the numbers being called out and marking them off. Online bingo sites do this for players automatically.
Once someone claims a Bingo, the caller will start a new bingo game. Once the numbers are verified, the winner will claim his/her prize.
Prizes vary from one hall to the next, but online bingo jackpots can reach to up to $1 million. The more people that play, the more the jackpot will be.
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