Why People Play Online Bingo

There are a number of reasons why people play online bingo and most of them are pretty well known. To begin with bingo is a very fun game to play. It’s not too difficult to understand, it moves very fast, and it can be very exciting especially when it gets down to the last few numbers to be called.

When Bingo went online about ten years ago the number of players shot up dramatically. There were those who played bingo regularly in halls in the seventies and eighties who had missed the game so much when most of the halls gradually closed down in the eighties and nineties. Joining this wave of bingo hall “refugees” were a whole new generation of computer savvy youngsters who took to bingo for all the right reasons.

Add to that that online bingo could be played either at home or on a mobile setting either on a laptop or Smartphone as long as there was an internet connection.

So what did all this vast influx of old and new bingo lovers mean? It meant bigger prizes and more people competing for them. The online gaming industry is not slow in anticipating trends and they very quickly figured out that online bingo lent itself so very well to progressive jackpot promotions. For those of you who don’t know about progressive jackpots it’s when a number of online bingo halls, all using the same software, get together to set up a joint promotion. The prize money from the promotion is drawn from the players themselves. Every time they buy a virtual bingo card a small sum of money is set aside towards the jackpot prize. 

However said that money buys power must have been talking about progressive jackpots because some progressive jackpots can be very powerful indeed, especially if a sole winner comes up and the prize isn’t shared.

So apart from all of the other reasons to play online bingo the chance of winning a progressive jackpot must be a particularly big one for a lot of players.  Bear in mind that progressive jackpot prizes do not come at any cost to the players who can still win a tidy sum if they get a bingo during a normal session. However what every player online must be thinking of that magic moment when a bell rings somewhere online and they may be the one who has won the big prize.

Now that’s why people play online bingo.