Is Online Bingo Just As Exciting As the Real Thing?
Bingo!
By Sarah H
If you were to compare online bingo as opposed to real live bingo, which would you suppose would be more exciting? Well the truth is they are both very exciting in different ways. At a real live bingo hall you would be surrounded by all the other players, with lots of chatting going on and everyone just hoping that they would be the one shouting “BINGO” before anyone else. The atmosphere would be absolutely electrifying, with everyone trying to see how many stamps the other person’s bingo card has, hoping that the next number called would be the one needed to complete up their bingo cards, wow, what excitement.
At an online bingo hall things would not be as tense as a regular bingo hall, because online bingo players are not able to see each other, no worries of someone trying to take a sneak peak at your bingo cards, no chatting to disturb your train of concentration, the atmosphere is much calmer and relaxing. However most online bingo halls provide chat software on their websites so that players can communicate with each other if they so desire, making their online bingo experience seem more real. Many of the members use these chat features to say hi to their fellow players and congratulate each other. Read the rest of the Fabulous Article
A History of Bingo
Bingo!
By Sally Crown
Bingo was first played in 1530, when the Italians created a national lottery called this lottery is still being played every Saturday in Italy. By 1778 the French had adapted the game making small changes including some to the the card which they divided into three horizontal and nine vertical rows. The vertical rows contained numbers from 1 to 10 in the first row, 11 to 20 in the second row, etc…, up to 90. No two Lotto cards were the same.
The Germans also played a version of the game in the 1800s, but they used it as a childs game to help young students to learn math, spelling and history. By 1929 the games popularity had spread to the USA. where a variation of bingo was played horseshoe shaped table covered with numbered cards and dried beans. Players marked their cards by placing a dried bean over the number. Once they had completed a line, the player called out Beano.
Beano quickly caught on and became renamed Bingo. The early versions of the game were great fun but produced five or six winners which was a slight problem. This was solved by new Bingo cards with non repeating number groups being designed. When bingo started being played in churches, to raise funds, it became increasingly popular.
