Posts Tagged ‘bingo’

Undoubtedly, bingo has remained one of the best games til date and even now continues to entertain its fans on the web and phone. It has paved its part from land to online, increasing its fan base and creating interesting stories, in the process. This being said, there are many bingo facts that have captured our eyes! Here are 6 of them, have a look and enjoy!

1. The highest bingo win made until today is £5.9 Million won by grandfather John Orchard.

2. Bingo is one of the top fundraiser for charities in the world.

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Have you ever tried a game of online bingo? There are many reasons why you should think about it especially if you are in a country like UK, which is among the few countries in the world that has legalised the game. All online bingo sites in UK are regulated and have legitimate licenses to provide fair play online gaming services.

Online bingo is among the easiest of gambling games as there are just a few rules involved in the game. All you need to do is to select your bingo cards and the game takes its own course depending on how lucky you are with the numbers being called out.

Even if it is other non bingo games that you are interested in, online bingo sites have a wide selection of casino games and other instant games. All of these games are themed differently and have various prizes that can be won as well.

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Online bingo gaming has made its way into the heart of millions. This game has proven its excellence time and again. Whether played with beans, at the bingo halls or from your laptop – irrespective of any form bingo games have the power to lure the players to a great extent. And, that is one reason that helped this game to sustain its credibility over the ages.

The game has managed to implant a place in the psyche of the players and established itself as a strong entertainer across the world. If we notice, whether played in the Italian version (the ‘tombola‘) or through the clicks that we make across various web sites – the substance of the game remains, anyway, the same. The fact is that these games are ingrained with various qualities that help in appealing the masses. And, to list out the qualities, they are quite a lot in number.

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Traditionally played by women, bingo in the UK was at its peak in the 1960’s and was known as a housewives favourite pastime. It is commonly seen as a social game which is played for fun as the jackpots aren’t as large as other gambling games. A bingo hall could be found in every town and city and there are over 3 million regular bingo players in the UK which is 10% of all UK women and 5% of UK men. Bingo is often regarded as a pensioner’s game in the UK, but that’s far from truth as most players are women under the age of 50 and it has become the most popular leisure activity of women in the UK between the ages of 20 and 25. The bingo industry in the UK is estimated to be worth £1.3 billion a year.

The game of bingo originally came from the Italian game of “Lo Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia”, and the game we know today, known as tombola, quickly became popular with the British Navy and eventually it made its way to UK shores.

In the UK the game of 90-ball bingo is played instead of the 75-ball version of the game which is commonly found in America. In 90- ball bingo, players purchase a nine by three strip with 27 squares. Each of the rows has four blank square and three numbered squares the number are between 1 and 90. The same style of ticket is used by UK online bingo websites, where an electronic number generator is used to call the numbers, whereas, in traditional bingo halls a spinning cage and numbered balls are used and the selected ball number is called out by a caller.

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Facebook has become more and more popular over the last several years. If you are having a party you can send the invites out on Facebook, upset about something then vent about it on Facebook. It really is incredible to see what this website has been able to achieve over the years since its launch. Now you can plainly see that you can separate events into events that have happened before Facebook as well as those that have happened after Facebook launch. For a large majority of people life seems to revolve around this unbelievably popular social networking site. Many people find it hard to imagine how they managed to do so many different things before the site was launched.

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