Bingo Lingo – A guide to internet bingo

N.B. The text below is borrowed shamelessly from www.bingo-lingo.net/ which is by far the best source of information about the rules and details of internet bingo.  We haven’t got their permission for its use yet because this is just a tester page and will change in a few days

Internet Bingo is pretty much like real bingo – with a few differences.

To start playing Bingo online for real money a player will have to create an account and make an initial deposit with an online Bingo site. You can find our favourites in the menu on the right hand side.

Games start every few minutes depending on the Bingo host and time of day. Internet Bingo games commonly use auto-daubers, which automatically mark your cards for you. This is much more convenient, compared to live Bingo, where the drawn numbers are called out and it is up to you to find those numbers on your cards and mark them. This feature allows you to buy far more cards in online Bingo than in live Bingo. Also, while the computer is allocating the markings for you, the cards are sorted into the order by which they are progressing. This way, you can easily see which card is progressing best and you can ‘cheer it on’. Both improvements of online Bingo versus live Bingo mean that the Bingo player has a lot more time on her/his hands. This time can be spent in the Chat Room, where the CM’s (Chat Monitors) keep things interesting and run chat games with additional prizes.

When playing Bingo online, a selection of Bingo cards is randomly selected for you by the computer. If you don’t like this selection, you can click a button and the computer randomly displays another selection of cards. You choose your cards from this selection. Most Bingo sites allow you to choose up to 48 different cards. The game patterns is also displayed on the screen , so you can easily see which Bingo pattern you must complete to win the game. Some patterns are easy to complete, which will make for a very short game. Others are more difficult and will take many calls to complete. The most common Bingo patterns are straight lines in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction.

The jackpot is often linked to the ‘Coverall’ games where you would need to get all the numbers on your card within a short space of time (e.g. in less than 50 calls). These jackpots constantly increase in value if they are not won and can get up to really big amounts. Play continues until one or more players have completed the Bingo pattern. If there is more than one simultaneous winner, the winners split the prize or jackpot.