Understanding the Basics of Online Bingo

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!