Online Bingo

Bingo, or better known as the Housey Housey, is one of the most popular gambling games in the UK. But why? Throughout the history, people always found it appealing to try out their luck. Games, in which you can get a lot of money, not previously having to put your house in wage, are the most desirable games. Most of all the game is very easy to understand, even for the widest audience. It is definitely fancied amongst the old people.

The shortest explanation for the game would be to buy the lucky ticket and to cross your fingers! Oh and please be quiet because the caller is speaking. The numbers are randomly called. The winning combinations are a horizontal row called out, or two or even three… Three called rows are just wonderful, because everyone loves a full house. But how did it all begin?

Bingo first appears in history as an Italian "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia" ,and it was so popular that Italians play it even till today! Every Saturday the Italian homes rustle of bingo papers. In the 1770 the wealthy French set their eyes on this amusing game and shortened its original name to “Le Lotto”. In the beginning of the 19cet. the Germans had an astonishing similar game, which was used as a learning method of numbers, for children! Those Germans… they don’t like to have fun with their hardly earned money. But today’s version of bingo came from the Americans. The immigrants on the new shore, in search of happiness and luck, just loved this gambling game. It was played on carnivals where they used beans to cover numbers, so it was named “beano”. A priest in 1934 used the game to raise funds for the Catholic Church! When bingo started in church its popularity went sky-high! Who is to oppose this new game played in the house of God! And here we are today… In North America alone the “beano” drains more than 90,000,000 US dollars a week!

We have come a long way haven’t we… Even the technology helped improve bingo. The internet era. You can play bingo on one of a thousand sites dedicated to this game. Sitting home in a cosy chair, with just a couple of clicks you can play. It is a relatively cheap game and most important you don’t have to wait for results or watch the old granny cheering, when you were so close… It was thought that poker or roulette was the most popular games on the internet, but online bingo is spreading fast. The frequency of winnings the number of people playing is just amazing, it makes you wonder does the organization profit? Well they do but the payout is more usual than in other games. Oh, and there are all those new age stuff to do like: chatting, foruming , meeting new people. In other words if u liked the game and all this new double life stuff, you’re in for it. What is there to stop you! “House correct - please pay out”

Bingo prizes vary from simple cash amounts of $50 to millions of dollars. The prizes may also include objects such as a car, or appliances, trips or vacation packages. Virtually anything can be given away as a bingo prize depending on the context, but cash is the most common prize. The size of the jackpot is determined by how much money is coming in. Usually bingo halls are required to pay out at least 50% of the money coming in as prizes. This percentage can vary depending on the local rules of the States. Some places restrict the maximum amount that can be given away at each session or at each night as prizes.

A progressive jackpot is a prize that keeps increasing until somebody wins it. The game is usually started with an attractive prize money called as the “seed” money. In order to win the jackpot, the player must a blackout with a stipulated number of calls. If this is not won by anyone in one session, then the prize gets rolled over into the next game where it is increased by the addition of the new game’s prize. Therefore these games can go on for weeks and months and the prize amount can increase to a huge sum. Some bingo halls have a ceiling cap on the maximum jackpot sum, some don’t. The bingo halls may have other bonuses such as if the player gets a blackout within a very small number of calls he/she gets an additional prize. Since the chances of this happening are very slim, these jackpots get paid very few times in a year.

Progressive jackpots have now extended into high stakes games, where the end amount could be as high as a million. These are sometimes called as super jackpots and have literally thousands of houses taking on insurance to avoid becoming bankrupt. Satellite bingo games wherein a number of playing houses or websites are linked via satellites to play bingo simultaneously, usually offer these high prizes.


Usually if one is lucky enough to win a jackpot, the procedure is that they don’t get paid immediately. The bingo card is sent to a independent laboratory in the case of offline bingo, and the insurance company also reviews security tapes to rule out cheating. In the online environment, they check for hacking or any such software manipulation techniques used. The check is made out only after 48 hours. The procedure for the payout being, if the amount is less than $100,000 the money is paid in a lump sum, and if it is greater than that the money is paid out on a yearly basis. Paying tax money on the prizes won is still the individual player’s responsibility.

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