When you stop to think about it, we are living through some remarkable times. The developments in communication technology are moving so fast it is difficult to keep on top of them, and they are all for the good. One of the most amazing developments is in the field of Smartphones and pads alongside Wi-Fi technology. Who would believe that you can now play bingo anywhere you are and have lots of fun at the same time?

Bingo has been around for hundreds of years, starting as a children’s board game whose potential was soon discovered by adults. While children can be easily amused adults usually always need an element of financial game for any game to capture their imagination and bingo was no exception. Where bingo caught on was when some smart businessman figured out that the more people you can gather in the same room playing bingo the larger the prizes and the bigger their cut.

After World War Two there were bingo halls springing up all over the UK with tens of thousands congregating every night of the week as well as several afternoons to play bingo and get a share of the fairly substantial prizes that were there to be won.

Bingo differs from most casino games in that the players are playing against each other with the first player to fill the card winning the prizes, the bingo hall owners could only charge an entry fee and a percentage each card purchased. Soon they began to realise that to operate a bingo hall cost a lot of money, and they just weren’t making enough. So as fast as they opened bingo halls began to close their doors till there were very few left, and just in the major cities.

That looked like the end of bingo till the glorious days of the online gaming revolution began. At first bingo lovers could only play in their own homes, which no one was really complaining about. The players were happy, the online bingo rooms were happy because their costs were a lot lower and there were a lot more players covering them. It was a real win-win situation. What has made it better is the development of these new mobile technologies that a bingo lover can play not just whenever they want and but wherever they may be.

That opens doors for a whole new list of exciting possibilities. Bingo at the bus stop, bingo in the dentist’s waiting room, at the train station. The possibilities are endless!

Bingo is a fairly simple game that has been around for hundreds of years, it began as a board game for children called lotto. Gradually Lotto developed into an adult’s game which had many names including “housey-housey”. Housey-housey was played either in church hall for pure entertainment or in less reputable places where people gathered to bet on the likelihood of a certain number coming up from balls being drawn. Eventually, to create more interest lotto or housey- housey, evolved so that a player had to fill a whole line of numbers on a specially printed card and later still the entire card.

That was the origin of the Bingo. Nobody knows exactly where it came from or where it was most popular in its very early days. What is for sure is that bingo became one of the most popular, most played and most loved games of all time.

In the UK in its peak years of the sixties and seventies, you can hardly walk down a street and not come across a bingo hall. However in the cash struck years of the eighties, bingo halls begin to close down. The public just didn’t have the money to spend on bingo as it was becoming more and more expensive to buy a card or two as the hall operators were faced with rising costs.

However from the mid nineteen nineties since the beginning of the online revolution, bingo has made a major comeback. The online version of Bingo has so many advantages over all of its predecessors that it is more popular than it ever was.
Yet the basic formula remains the same.
The role of the game is to mark off a line or a card with numbers that have been drawn, the first player to fill a line or a card wins the prize. It’s as simple as that.

However there are a number of fundamental changes online bingo and they are advantages:

1.  There are always more players taking part in online bingo session making the prizes so much higher.
2. You never need to leave your home to play online bingo. It comes to you through your computer.
3. You can play online bingo for free as a guest player for as long as you want.
4. When you are ready to play for real money, your favourite bingo room will pay you a nice welcome bonus against your first deposit.

These are just a few of the basics of online bingo and there are many more. Take the time to get online and check them out as soon as you can!

Since being established in 2006 Sun Bingo has risen to being one of the biggest online bingo operators in the United Kingdom. With members in the thousands , it now gives away £ 1000′s in cash prizes each and every month.

As well as the big cash prizes, Sun Bingo is also a great place to play, with regular promotions and chat rooms full of fun, which ensures that everyone has a great time whilst playing their favorite bingo games.

With 90,80 and 75 ball bingo available, Free bingo everyday, all NEW mini games, Deal or No Deal Bingo and Slots Galore, you will find that Sun Bingo really is one of the better places to enjoy your Bingo experience.

You can grab a FREE £5 just for playing Session Bingo on a Wednesday Evening at Sun Bingo.

You can take advantage of Sun Bingo’s BOGOF offer every week and simply buy one ticket and play two.

Every single day at Sun Bingo you could get the chance to win £200 by playing bingo during any of the rush hour sessions.

Every week, Bingo fans can play absolutely FREE at Sun Bingo with prizes of £10 for one line, £15 for two lines and a fantastic £50 for the Full House prize.

Join Sun Bingo and they will give you a massive 200% Welcome Bonus (up to £200)

Now at Sun Bingo you can play all your favourite slots at the same time as playing your favourite Bingo Games without interuption.

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If you are new to Sun Bingo, then you an also take advantage of their great reload bonus. By making a second deposit to the bingo, you can get a match bonus of 50% – making your gaming sessions at Sun Bingo last twice as long whilst you have twice as much fun.

When asking the question is online bingo just like the real thing, probably the nearest possible comparison believe it or not is basketball. Basketball played in a closed court with a few thousand fans can be really exciting because of the noise and the drama of a fast moving game. Anyone who has ever attended a live basketball game and compared it to one played outdoors will usually say that the indoor version is better. All that noise all these scoreboards, the crowds crammed in to a very tight space makes for a very special atmosphere.

The same can be said for the atmosphere in a bingo hall, not that there are too many around these days. Lots of noise and lots of pushing and shoving. The big difference is that people who turn up at a basketball stadium turn up to watch a game while those who turn up at a bingo hall come to play bingo. And the question remains is playing bingo in such a setting better than playing online bingo at home.

To be diplomatic the answer would have to be that there are players who are drawn to the social aspects of playing in a bingo hall, who like the travelling, who like to get out the house once or twice a week and are prepared to put up the noise, the pushing and the shoving and the prizes that are often pretty disappointing, because of the low turn outs.

Many people say that how can online bingo be exciting when you play at home alone. For the ever increasing number of bingo lovers who have discovered that online bingo have so many advantages they will tell you that the excitement lies in many other directions.

        *        Never having to leave home in the cold and the rain.

        *        Being able to play whenever they want.

        *        Being given generous bonuses whenever they make a deposit,

        *        Being given the chance to take part in promotions and tournaments that go                   on around the clock.

        *        Being able to take part in one or two bingo sessions just about every day                   without having to pay out a penny.

However the most exciting aspect of playing bingo online has to be the prize money to be won, online bingo attracts audience that are usually five times more than an average payout in a bingo hall. And when it comes down to progressive bingo promotions the prizes can be truly phenomenal.

So when it comes down to deciding what form of bingo is more exciting, the online version has to win it.

One thing that a player would never get in a land bingo hall was a bonus. They were definitely part of the bingo package in any way. Bonuses first began to appear in online casinos where the players, who till then played in land casinos, were used to getting what were known as “comps”. Comps were never given in cash but in free meals, hotel rooms and even more.

When casinos went online it was a lot more difficult to give meals and rooms so the online casino managers started to give out cash bonuses instead for the members to enjoy playing on. And when the first online bingo rooms began to spring up the decision was made to continue that welcome tradition there too.

Online Bingo bonuses work in a few different ways. When a new player decides to join a particular online bingo room they are entitled to what is known as a welcome bonus. This can be often as much as 200% of the player’s first deposit which is a great way to get used to playing online for real money while being reasonably heavily subsidized by the casino management. Many players join every online bingo room that they can find online just to get the welcome bonus. While this is understandable, the online bingo room management soon picked up on this phenomena and raised the minimum wagering requirements to higher levels so that it was less an attractive proposition for these “bonus hunters”

The majority of players are content to find a good bingo room and stick with it. A player who deposits regularly will always be entitled to a match deposit bonus, although usually less than generous than the welcome bonus. By the same token the minimum wagering requirements will also be a lot lower so its swings and roundabouts!

In addition to the match deposit bonuses which is always welcome to most players there are also the loyalty point schemes that most serious online bingo rooms operate. Loyalty point schemes operate in such a fashion that for every penny that an online casino member plays on, a very small percentage of that money is set aside in the form of points. While the percentages can vary, it doesn’t take too long before an active player is starting to clock up points. When these points reach a certain level they can be exchanged for credits or even cashed in and withdrawn without any wagering requirements.

It’s just your favourite online bingo site’s way of saying thanks.

You might find this difficult to believe but there are still a lot of people out there who don’t know a lot about bingo. They might even think that it is still played in bingo halls or church halls and hasn’t made it online yet, or even that Bingo has become an online gaming sensation.

Even worse the chances are that they don’t know that since it went online, thanks to all the modern technologies available, the bingo that they may be thinking about that was played on a card with just a few numbers, which even then you found difficult to keep track off, has evolved into something much bigger and better. In a bingo hall setting the most numbers you would find on a bingo card would be twenty five and sometimes thirty. In an online setting they start at sixty and can go as high as ninety. That makes things a lot more interesting for the online bingo lover which can enjoy games of Bingo online at a number of different levels.

How it works is this. If a online bingo player starts out a session with a number of ninety space cards in front of them, they can actually test their luck by being the first to fill a single line which can be nine or ten numbers, the first to fill twenty numbers, thirty numbers, forty numbers and so on right up till nineties. Some online bingo rooms charge a player for every combination that they want to try, while many more charge a flat fee for the whole combination. It doesn’t mean that if a player hits a winning line they have to stop, they can continue and if their winning line is part of another winning combination they can claim the prize for that too. As their card fills up, so do their prizes.

It doesn’t happen very often but if a players fills up all of the ninety numbers and wins even a few of the prizes, they will be liable to be taking home a very considerable amount of money. And they won’t be taking it home because the chances are that they are at home already! And they don’t have to worry about all that money the win and everyone else in the hall knowing that they won it. If a major prize winner at bingo requests no publicity, only their bank manager will know..

Yes online bingo is something that everyone should get to find out about and at least give it a try.