Thursday, February 10, 2011

Online Bingo Sites Are A Blast!

By Accombli Engliza


Online bingo sites can trace their history all the way back to sixteenth century Italy, if not earlier. In 1530, the Italian National Lottery was created as a method for funding the government. The lottery craze spread to France, where a 90-number form of bingo using cards with a 3-by-9 matrix became the rage. France's "Le Lotto" lives on today, having been co-opted as an educational tool in which Sesame Street characters or other pop icons help to teach small children their numbers, or any other facts that can take advantage of the lotto format.

Online bingo sites can offer games to players with practically no human intervention. Random number generator algorithms are used to generate online bingo "cards", to select the numbers called during a given game, and to pick the winning pattern that must be matched by the winner. Bingo game patterns can be somewhat complex, with different shapes and rules coming into play for each game. Some online bingo games will require a winning pattern on only a single card. Other games may require the winner to have three or more winning cards at the same time, with a different pattern on each card.

Online bingo websites usually offer a "chat" function so that bingo players can interact and converse publicly, or privately, with other bingo players. Bingo players come in all styles. For some, the opportunity to win money is their only interest. For others, it's an excuse to get together with friends and catch up with what others have been doing.

Every bingo site runs its games in its own way, so make sure you understand the rules before you begin playing. Some sites offer only small prizes that are won fairly frequently, other sites pay off winning bingos with points that must be traded in for prizes. A few sites offer large prizes, but the odds of winning those are extremely small. Such prizes may be awarded only once a month or so.

Because Bingo game odds can be precisely calculated, site operators can have fairly good control of their prize budget. Games can be set up to pay out prizes with low or high frequency, depending on the amount of traffic at the website, the limits established on numbers called per game and the difficulty of matching the winning patterns.

Typing "online bingo sites" into a search engine will come up with lots of places to check out, and it shouldn't take long to find one with which you're comfortable. Whether you decide to play for the big bucks, or the smaller jackpots, or just to collect points, there are always lots of other people out there playing at the same time, hoping to win, and hoping to find other good people with which they can spend their time.




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