Tuesday, 5 June 2012

Rules for Playing online bingo

By Samantha Quinn


While traditionally bingo was played in halls, modern online bingo is played in halls offered by online casinos. The rules of this thrilling number game and even its payouts can vary from one place to another. An online casino would always offer you the documentation regarding the type of game, its rules and payouts on their website. Find out what makes this game so much appealing to gamblers.

As a player you would buy cards having numbers formed on a 5x5 lattice that corresponds with the 5 letters in the word BINGO. American Bingo has 75 numbers and the British Bingo has 90 numbers. Players would then draw numbers like B-3 or 0-56 randomly until a player has completed a Bingo pattern. It can be a line having 5 numbers in horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. What makes this game so much interesting is that there can be several possible patterns to win.

Usually, a bingo card would contain 24 number spaces and a single free space. Numbers are received on each card in a random way and get arranged in the 5x5 grid. In the American Bingo, the card would have 75 numbers distributed equally into 5 columns, with each column being named after the alphabets of the word BINGO. The free space is placed in the column titled 'N.'

When playing bingo, you would be able to choose any number from thousands of non-matching numbers. While some card sets have 6,000 numbers others can even have 9,000 numbers. There is a series number on the Hard and Flimsy cards. For instance, a card 1354 is going to have the numbers always in the same places.

When playing online bingo, the numbers would be announced by the Caller at a very fast pace. This would require players to carefully note the numbers and mark them off on their cards. The Caller would continue to call the numbers unless any one of the players call a BINGO. Sometimes, even multiple players can call BINGO.

This would stop the game and the players' numbers are checked. If you win, you would be awarded the prize and a new game would then start again using new cards. And, if there are multiple winners, the prize would be split among all of them.

In the online version, the cards are chosen in a random manner. The maximum cards you would get is 4, but in some online casinos it can be higher. The game would have a Caller and a display board where the numbers are shown. Here, the game pattern can also be displayed. In some online casinos, the numbers would get automatically marked on your cards.

These are the basic rules of playing online bingo. It is the simplicity of this game that makes it so popular. All you have to do is to mark the numbers that the caller calls out and if you complete the bingo, you win. There is no need to learn any complex rules. And, while playing you can even go through the rules by checking at the online casino's website.




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