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However, if you have decided that you need to make a big profit, you have to understand that to win a large sum in a bingo hall is simply unrealistic. This happens due to the fact that ordinary Bingo Rooms or Bingo Halls just can’t gather enough players to make a huge jackpot. Usually, even the biggest jackpots do not exceed $2000, and in most cases prizes are not more than $100. So, if you want to win a really big amount of money, you may try playing bingo online. Only online you can play in real time and play with 50,000 players. The jackpots in online versions are big not only because there are many players playing, but also because many bingo operators offer very large fixed jackpots. What you need to do in order to start playing online?

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Bingo in casinos, halls or churches may seem confusing if you are not used to the terms bingo dealers usually use. The numbers have different nicknames and in fact, bingo slang makes the game much more interesting.

Here is a list of most common terms you can hear in a bingo hall:

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You may also ask where the money paid by the players will go. Although it is unlikely that the money will finance some kind of illegal activity, you will be more willing to play bingo if you know that the money will be used for building a new hospital for cancer treatment than if you know that the finances will help organizing beer festival. If it is important to you and you need to know where the money will go, you can always call and contact the bingo hall or room and ask where exactly go their jackpots. In some countries lotteries are legally obliged to provide you information in written form about where the money from previous games went and how are they planning to spend the next game amount.

Bingo halls and bingo rooms are practically, just the same. The difference is that before bingo halls were associated with churches and church halls while bingo rooms were considered places where adults entertain themselves. The difference was particularly noticeable in 60s and 70s of 20th century when bingo rooms were mostly visited mostly by smoking people or people of undue behavior, desperate people. On the other hand, bingo halls were associated with the local church. In some states, for example, in Arkansas, there were rules in bingo rooms similar to the rules of modern strip clubs and children under the age of 18 were not allowed while in bingo halls there were nice old ladies who played in order to raise money for charity.

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Today Bingo is played in many versions including online versions. Except the traditional options, many online games offered by licensed dealers are based on Bingo. Tickets are on sale as well as for Lotto, and players receive a check with numbers which is similar to a bingo card. Numbers are usually announced on TV daily or weekly. In these games the prizes are bigger but they are harder to play. Another form of Bingo are the scratch off lotteries which are especially popular in Britain and Canada. The winning amount in network lotteries usually is confirmed electronically in order to avoid forgeries.

It is believed that to one person playing at the casino, there are ten people playing bingo. The online version is much more popular since it is very easy to play even for people with disabilities. Besides, growing jackpots in online bingo are much more than in the traditional bingo played at bingo halls. In UK as well as in USA bingo is played mainly in churches and charity organizations. However, the stakes of the churches are much more modest than in other places and the people are quite different.