Online Bingo Information

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A historical lottery style game originating from Italy, bingo began its life as far back as the 14th century, being known as the 'Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia'. This simple game soon began to spread throughout Europe and became a much favoured game by the aristocracy of France, only reaching North America in the late 1920s.

In the 20th century, bingo halls began to appear all over the United Kingdom and soon became a popular attraction at the seaside resort of Blackpool. Today, the game is now played all around the world, and although many players prefer to make a night of it with their friends, purchasing cards (boards) and daubers (markers) or playing counters, others prefer to take advantage of the Internet revolution and play online.

Where once the numbers where selected by simply shuffling a pack of cards or drawing counters from a bag, and then by a machine with ping pong balls, modern-day bingo now relies upon computers to generate a random sequence of non-repeating numbers.

Online Information: The Game of Internet Bingo

Those used to playing this fun game in traditional bingo halls will find many definite similarities, although online gaming websites always use their very own random number generators, rather than actual machines and real-life callers.

Online bingo is now a $billion-dollar industry and continues to grow in popularity, year on year, making its first appearance in the mid-nineties, when the main websites included Bingo Zone and Blitz, amongst other more general casino / gambling sites.

Those wishing to play on the Internet will find that there are now literally hundreds of different gaming websites to choose between, allowing you to interact with other Internet players throughout the world. Free bingo games are a good place to familiarise yourself with the rules, and some websites now allow you to play without first putting up your cash - a term known as 'sandbox playing' - although you will obviously not be able to win any prizes this way.

When you are ready to gamble and play paid games, usually paying by your credit card, you will find that prizes vary greatly, including everything from monetary prizes, right up to brand new cars. These websites are often referred to as 'online bingo halls' and are carefully designed to appeal to broad markets.

Online bingo is an easy game to play, and whether you win or lose, it is always enjoyable and need not be expensive.