The origins of bingo

Bingo has its history back to 1950s and originally from Italian as a kind of lottery. The game had been spread around Europe before it got to North America, where it got its current name “bingo” after a New York toy salesman incidentally overhead someone yell “bingo” instead of “beano”, which used to be the first name of this lottery game there. The bingo was once used as a fund raising method for the churches and got really popular in the North America. As the development of the technology nowadays, the game has already been transplanted into the virtual world, internet, as an online game.

The online bingo game does not only provide an entertainment about the game itself, but also a community, where the players can meet each other, make new friends, chat with the other players and whatever they would like to do as the advantages of the internet in the web 2.0 era. This online bingo has actually been becoming like a social networking media for the people who surf the internet and play the game. One more advantage of the online bingo is that you can play it anywhere and anytime you like, compared with the original bingo game in a physical venue. Moreover, you can have a lot of fun playing the game without even spending a penny and shift as many times as you like between the different kinds of bingo games which are available online. As there are usually some great cash prizes for this online game, some tips are promoted to be applied when you are playing: The first one is, try to play as many cards as you can; this tip works well no matter online or offline. Another one which is much more complicated and requires for some randomness possibility knowledge is, the longer the game you are going to the play, the more likely the called numbers will be to the median number of the poll, which is 38. Vice versa, if you are going to play a short game, try to choose the number as far as you can from the median. Anyway, it is just a game, you should have fun!