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What is Online Bingo?
Online Bingo is a simple and easy game with no requirement of any special skills, experience or knowledge. Contrary to bingo clubs, online bingo players don’t have to concentrate on their bingo tickets; there is no need to follow the bingo calls or even claim winnings. In online bingo rooms, everything pretty much happens by itself.
So why is online bingo such a hit in the UK and worldwide?
It is estimated that in 2008, there were 2 million British people playing bingo online. In online bingo, players play against other players across the country and even those on the other side of the world. This makes the jackpot prizes get much bigger and the potential winnings a lot more attractive. Online Bingo requires no dressing up, no going out, no arrangements for expensive babysitters, not even talking a friend into coming with you. Without leaving their house, online bingo players enjoy huge winning potentials in a relatively shorter time and at a faster speed.
Bingo is a Social Activity
Having said all of that, none of the above is enough to bring a simplistic game like bingo to such a massive scale of success. What really makes online bingo one of the biggest success stories on the internet is the social community side of it. Bingo is not really about winning. It’s about enjoying the process; playing the games, feeling the buzz when numbers are called, chatting with other roomies, making new friends and generally taking a break from the daily routine and stress. It’s a great escape from our daily problems when playing bingo online and the only thing that matters is the next number called.
Online Bingo Around the World
Online bingo is hugely popular in many countries around the world. It’s especially popular in the USA and Canada where it all began in the first place. The type of bingo game played in this region is based on the 75 ball bingo game. In the UK, Australia and New Zealand, the game of bingo, also called Housie, is played based on the 90 ball bingo game version.
Although the main types of bingo games are 90 ball, 75 ball, as well as the 80 ball and 30 ball versions; there are other popular types of bingo games played across the world. U-Pick’Em Bingo invented by the Chinese, Quickshot Bingo, Bonanza Bingo, Horse Racing Bingo, Table Bingo, Electronic Bingo, Christmas Bingo, Buzzword Bingo, Slingo are some of the more popular ones.
The online bingo industry began its rapid growth with the gambling act 2005 and reached its massive growth rate following the smoking ban in 2007. The legal regulation of online bingo in the UK with the relaxation of rules in 2005 which allowed online bingo companies to be established and promoted widely.
Gala Bingo, Foxy Bingo, Mecca Bingo were one of the earliest to enter this lucrative market to provide bingo games to the UK market which has become the world’s most developed online bingo market. The number of UK online bingo sites were just 17 in 2004. As of the end of 2008, there were about 250 of them trying to capture a little part of this lucrative pie. Most of these bingo sites are already listed on onlinebingofriends.com and those are not, are probably not worth checking.
Other European countries, as well as the rest of the world are still awaiting legal regulations for online bingo businesses to be established. This will no doubt speed up the growth of online bingo to make reach bigger masses, turning it into a multi-cultural multi-lingual social activity.
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