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The roots of bingo dates back to Lotto, a well-renowned game in Italy during the 16th century. Basically a game of luck, in bingo the numbers are announced randomly, and you need to put a mark on the numbers which correspond to your bingo cards. The first person to fulfill the markings in a certain sequence wins the game.

Bingo is extremely famous throughout the world and is an excellent means of spending your time without shelling out any cash since free bingo games are widely accessible. The Internet is the perfect spot if you are searching for bingo games that are played just for fun, not money. The web is rich with bingo sites, chat societies, and discussions, to enable you to participate in a game, express your thoughts, and place a message related to the game of bingo at no expense to you.

The online version is played in a similar manner as that of the traditional game. But, at a bingo site, the computer generates the numbers that will be displayed on the top left corner of your monitor. Usually, three cards are dealt to individual players.

One advantage of online bingo is that cheating is impossible. The computer has full knowledge of the numbers on your cards so that you can be assured that no one is expected to win soon.

Free bingo websites certainly cost nothing, and there is no obligation. You are not obliged to put any deposit down, and the sites are accessible to everyone. The sites are usually divided into different halls, which have unique names of their own. Registration is free and, upon completing the sign-up process, you can enter in one of the bingo halls, and begin playing.

The halls may sometimes include jackpots, generally the sites with high membership. But, the jackpots have bundled clauses to them, such as promoting the site to the maximum number of people to be able to avail of the jackpot. This is perhaps the reason why bingo has become a hit. Not only does it offer a lot of free enjoyment but also provides a chance to win the pot cash.

If you are still aching for bingo games that are no cost to you, then free bingo events sponsored by communities are another alternative. You not only get to play some bingo for free, but also get updated with the latest news. This is another excellent means of establishing connections with your community.

Indeed, bingo can provide great fun and excitement, at no charge to you.

About the Online Bingo : Industry, Fact, History and Players. The latest reports state that there are now over 1800 online casinos on the internet. Online Sportsbook proliferate and there seems to be a new online Poker site launching every day. One aspect of online gambling that doesnt grab the headlines, but is becoming a vibrant, growing and commercially important market is online bingo.

Online bingo? But the little old ladies who play bingo don’t have internet access, I hear you say. That may, or may not be the case, but land-based bingo is huge, and its not only played by little old ladies. In fact, there are more visits to bingo halls in USA than there are visits to the cinema. In 1999, the US bingo industry alone had a turnover of $5.1b. Add to that the fact that the rules are simple ( everyone knows how to play bingo) and that most people dont even perceive it as gambling and you can see its potential. Little wonder that online bingo is growing and set to become big business.

Multi-player Bingo on the internet (as opposed to single player, Keno-Bingo) falls into three basic groups; Free Bingo, Game Sites with Bingo and Pay to Play Bingo. Free Bingo is offered by a small number of specialist sites. Game play is free and prizes are usually points or small denomination cash prizes. The operators business model is built on banner advertising sales and/ or data mining. This is the same model as operated by those sites offering a range of games, one of which happens to be bingo. These sites include places like Pogo, Gamesville and the Flipside Network. The core of the industry, however, is the Pay-to-Play bingo sites.

Compared to the 1800 online casinos, the bingo market is small, but its growing quickly. There were only ten credible pay-to-play online bingo offerings in April 2000. A year later this had increased by 50%. One year later, by February 2002, this had double to 30 sites. As I write (December 2002) this figure has risen by more than 60% in less than year and the current count is at 52 sites. ( All these numbers exclude white label sites and affiliates etc.).

The structure of the industry is similar to the online casino industry. Software is licensed to operators and costs are usually based on an upfront fee plus and on-going, turnover-based royalty. Up to recently the software was supplied by bingo specialists only. However, recently two of the online casino worlds big boys have entered the market. Both Boss Media and Cryptologic have commenced supplying bingo software. Again, as with the online casino market, the games come in download, Flash and Java versions, with the download option seemingly returning to favour after an up-turn in Java and Flash in the last year. All pay-to-play bingo sites offer slots games (as per their land-based cousins) but recently there has been a surge of new additional games on offer including Video Poker, Keno and other card based games.

So, whos playing these games? Weve already established that its not the little old ladies who play land-based bingo. From original research carried out at WhichBingo.com, it can be seen that the audience is predominantly female (85%), two thirds of them are aged 35 - 54, almost all of them are based in North America and over 80% of them also play land-based bingo. Interestingly 40% of online bingo players do not take part in any other type of online gambling. For those operators in the online casino market this is great news entering the bingo arena will open up new audience streams for them rather than cannibalising their existing player base. However if you really want to see what this audience looks like, pop into any bingo site. Most of them have players galleries so you can indeed see what the audience looks like.

Players galleries may be a strange concept to those used to promoting the benefits of the anonymity of online gaming. online bingo is different. One of the main reasons a player will play at one site rather than another is because their friends play there. Thats not friends from the local neighbourhood, but friends across the whole internet. The basis of this community spirit within the bingo games is the chat window. The chat window is open during the game and players interact throughout the game, creating the community atmosphere. This then brings an additional marketing tool into play; the Chat Host. Simply the Chat Host is there, in the chat room, to develop a community atmosphere and offer immediate customer support. A good Chat Host (or CM as they are known) can be the difference between an OK site and a great site. Importantly, they can also be an influencer as to whether a player returns or not.

Finally, with the cost of both recruitment and retention within the gaming market remaining competitively high, its worth looking at bingo in comparison. Taking an arbitrary day, the cost to appear in first position on Overture for the word casino is more than three times more expensive than appearing in first position for bingo. Similarly, top position for online casino is more than five times more expensive than online bingo. Added to which retention levels are much, much higher in online bingo.

Although only a brief overview of the online bingo market, suffice to say that it is a vibrant, fast-growing niche within the online gaming market and one that deserves to be looked at in more depth by anyone looking for an opportunity in online gaming.

Credits to : Phil Fraser, “i-ludus Consulting”.

Bingo - History of the Game Bingo. The origins of Bingo can be traced back to the year 1530 in which a State run lottery game Lo Giuco de Lotto was originated.

The game is still held every Saturday in Italy. “Le Lotto” migrated to France in the late 1700s in a form similar to the Bingo we know today, with a playing card, tokens and numbers read aloud.

Throughout the 1800’s these lottery type of games spread quickly throughout Europe and many offshoots of the game were created. One popular form of game had a player’s card divided into 3 horizontal rows and 9 vertical ones. The first vertical row contained the numbers from 1 to 10, the second from 11 to 20, and so on until 81-90 on the ninth vertical row. The 3 horizontal rows each contained five squares with numbers in them and 4 blank ones. The caller would then draw from a bag of wooden chips numbered from 1 to 90. The object of the game was to be the first to completely cover one of the 3 horizontal rows. The blank squares were considered free squares much like the free square in the Bingo cards of today.

In 1929, a game called “Beano” was played at a carnival near Atlanta, Georgia. The bingo game’s tools consisted of dried beans, a rubber number stamp and some cardboard. A New York toy salesman named Edwin Lowe, observed the game where players exclaimed “BEANO!” if they filled a line of numbers on their card. Lowe introduced the game to his friends in New York where one of them mistakenly yelled “BINGO!” in her excitement . “Lowe’s Bingo” was soon very popular and Lowe asked competitors to pay him $1 per year to allow them to call their games Bingo as well.

By the 1940’s Bingo games had sprung up all over the country with thousands of games being played every week. Today Bingo games can be found just about anywhere.

Online Bingo Glossary. Fun Bingo, Online Bingo Games and Slots. Bingo Glossary. New to bingo?… here are some of the most common terms you need to know and some basic rules. For those of you who are new to bingo, here are some of the most common terms you need to know and some basic rules:

Blackout/Coverall
This is a pattern where you must cover all numbers on the card to win.

Caller
This is the person who calls out the numbers.

Chat room
You will see the chat room in the bottom left corner of the screen. You can switch between the chat room and our slots at any time even during play by making the appropriate selection. This is a good place to make new bingo freinds and also see how other players are fairing.

Free space
This is always the middle square of the card and if included in the current pattern counts towards your winning numbers.

Jackpot
The jackpot is our largest prize for the game in question and is awarded when you make the pattern within the specified number of balls, refered to on your screen as “balls to jackpot”.

Pattern
You only need the numbers that form the pattern found at the top right monitor of your screen to win the game. If you manage to do this within the designated balls to jackpot then you win the jackpot prize. If not then you win the prize in question. If there are more than one winners, then the prize is divided equally.

Bingo - The Best Online Games of Bingo

Here you can choose your favourite bingo site. Bingo is very popular on the internet. We made a selection of the best bingo games. Some sites even offer free bingo tickets.

To get started, you signup, download the software or play bingo directly online. There are many different patterns you have to match on your card to win. While waiting for the bingo numbers to be called, you can chat with the other players.

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