If you’re looking for something new to distract yourself while online, bingo is now available in the Internet.  Online bingo sites can now be found all over the Internet.  The recent boom in bingo games has certainly caught the attention of big gambling networks, and more bookmakers are now offering them.

Bingo has been present online for a long time now, but it’s overshadowed by online casino games such as poker and blackjack.  But now, bingo has become a popular alternative.  Online bingo is considerably  cheaper than playing poker and casino games plus, it’s also a very easy game to play.  You don’t need any experience or get intimidated by veterans during the game.

Country Fairs to Internet Bingo

Bingo started out in country fairs.  At that time, it was called beano because beans were used to mark the cards of the players.  The numbers were written on discs and were drawn from cigar boxes.  Gradually, the game has changed to what it is today.  From community halls to land based bingo clubs, it is now being offered online though the help of technology.  Bingo players can now enjoy a online bingo game in the comforts of their home.

A lot of the online bingo sites are operated by United Kingdom bookmakers.  Fortunately, online, you have to be 18 years old and above to play the game of bingo.  Players can either play free bingo or for real money to be in with a chance to win big jackpots, and playing online is fairly easy as all you have to do is to register and buy your bingo tickets.  Some of the sites even allow players to pre-purchase bingo cards, which will be automatically played even though they are not logged in.  This also allows players to budget their money.

Online Bingo Perks

Online bingo sites also have bonuses like any other online casino.  They also feature other games such as scratch cards and chat games and slot machines.  They host jackpot games on a specific date and time where players will have the chance to win one thousand to ten thousand pounds.  Players will also have the chance to meet other players during the game as these chat boxes enable players to interact with each other.

Unlike poker games, the atmosphere is more casual and relaxed, but it can also be competitive, especially when everyone’s eyeing for the jackpot.  You have to keep your eyes open and make sure to mark your card.

All in all, bingo is a good pastime.  Plus, bingo cards are relatively cheap, and you don’t need to be an expert to win.

It’s been a difficult couple of weeks for the global economy. We’ve seen the stock market take a nose dive off a cliff, and the pinch is being felt around the world. All in all, it’s looking like a gloomy festive season for a lot of us.

So imagine how much of a lift you’d get by winning a a bunch of free cash to bolster up your shopping money this Christmas? Sounds good, right? All you have to do to be eligible is play some of everyone’s favourite online game, Bingo.

The generous folks over at 888Ladies will be holding a raffle at the end of November, and the first five players drawn from a hat will win £1,000 each – that’s not a bad contribution towards whatever festivities you may be planning – it’s certain to put a smile on your face.

So how do you get your hands on this lovely cash, then? It couldn’t be easier. Just log onto 888Ladies any time in November and play some bingo. It’s really as simple as that.

Starting November the 7th and ending November the 10th, every game you play earns you a couple of Xmas points. You’ll get a point for every 10p you wager on 888Ladies’ Instant Games. Standard 90 ball carry just the same bonus – 888Ladies are handing out 1 point for every 10p you wager there too.

And to make things more interesting, you can win 10 points on a 75-ball game. All you have to do is get the “X-mas Stocking” logo on your card, and the points are yours.

By the end of the month, you’ll be able to turn each one of your points into a raffle ticket with a chance to win one of the fabulous £1,000 prizes. There’s no limit on how many tickets you can enter into the raffle – the more times you enter, the better your chances of pocketing some of that nice crisp cash.

And that’s to say nothing of the prizes you might win while you’re racking up your points. 888Ladies have a number of other promotions underway where you could win anything from extra cash to a holiday abroad.

Play at 888 Ladies Bingo here

Popular online bingo portal BingoStreet have got a really cool prize up for grabs this month. Somehow they managed to get their hands on a Wink Bingo laptop in glorious pink colour LOL - just made for playing bingo online! - anyway this laptop is up for grabs for one of their site members.

Definitely worth taking a peek, after all somebody has to win this laptop, why shouldn’t it be you? Can’t think of a better machine on which to play bingo online! Hot pink, bring it on!

To enter the competition is really easy, just write down your favourite Wink Bingo story or experience (it can even be a poem abour Wink Bingo) and then submit it to the Bingo Forum at Bingostreet.

You’ve got until November 20 to get your stories in, after that the voting will start and the winner gets a really cool laptop. You can check out the full details of the BingoStreet Pink Laptop Giveaway here, you’ll see a nice photo and cast your eye over the tech specs too, this ain’t no wussy laptop, it’s a real powerful brute! (oooh!) 

So come on you bingo bunnies, put your lucky bingo socks on and pull a really cool story or a bit of Shakespeare out of the hat, and enter the competition. You ain’t got nothing to lose and a really hot pink laptop to win just in time for Christmas GL!!

Wink Bingo is one of the top online bingo websites that will be kicking off a huge and bombastic bonfire bingo frenzy tonight, November 5th, 403 years to the day when the famous Guy Fawkes did his best to burn down Parliament - naughty man!

Yet he’s one of the most well known guys (scuse the pun) in British history, and popular bingo online site Wink Bingo are remembering the 5th of November with a special bonanza of hot bingo bonfires tonight!

Every time you bingo on #13 on Nov 5th at Wink Bingo you’ll get an extra chance to win a share of 403,000 BPs up for grabs tonight - that’s 1,000 BPs for every year since the infamous gunpowder and treason plot!

Also check out the spectacular Instant Win Scratchcard game at Wink Bingo appropriately called Fireworks Frenzy - the biggest wagerers on this hot game tonight are also up for a share of the 403,000 BPs!

If that’s not enough, the Wink Bingo monthly £2K game is on tonight at 10pm sharp - £2,000 Guaranteed Bingo Jackpot to be won by one lucky online bingo player - make it a bonfire night to remember at Wink Bingo!

Wink Bingo is hosting a whole weekend of spicy Halloween Tricks and Treats, but none better than the hot £1K pre-purchase game that kicks off tonight, Oct 31, at 9.30pm.

This is an online bingo game with a Wink Bingo difference - bingo tickets cost just 5p a shot - and you should buy as many as you can, because if you don’t win the £1,000 jackpot - all your tickets will be refunded in full on Monday!

It’s not very often you’ll get a chance to win £1,000 in a NO RISK game of bingo online - so make the most of it and pre-purchase your cards now - the doors are already open!

Simply login to your Wink Bingo account and enter the room through the flash animation banner on the top left of the Bingo lobby - you can buy as many bingo cards as you want - this is one bingo game you just can’t lose!

There’s a whole weekend of Halloween thrills and chills at Wink Bingo, so start the hot online bingo action tonight and have a fantastic weekend!

Mirror Bingo is throwing a special spooky bingo party this Halloween Friday on 31 October and you’re invited!

The ghoulish bingo fun starts early Friday evening with some freaky chat games, that’ll start those thrilling chills creeping up your spine while you play bingo online. And more huge thrills later, as Mirror Bingo are giving away two huge online bingo jackpots on Friday night – a total of £12,500 Guaranteed Jackpots on two scarily big bingo games – don’t you dare miss these thrilling games of online bingo, you’ll regret it forever!

Bingo game #1 at 9pm with a £2,500 Jackpot Prize!

Practise your bingo playing skills on the first big bingo game and get into the spooky spirit by playing in the pre-purchase bingo room for the £2500 jackpot.

Bingo game #2 at 10pm with a £10,000 Jackpot Prize!

Now you’re ready for big online bingo game of the night at Mirror Bingo, the mega bingo jackpot game with a guaranteed £10,000 that one lucky bingo player will win – bless his/her socks – it could be you! Just make your way to the Haunted House (if you dare!) for 10pm sharp, and GL!

Both of these huge Halloween bingo games offer the pre-purchase option, so there’s no excuse for missing either of these spectacular bingo games – just click on the Halloween Special tab in the Mirror Bingo lobby and choose your lucky bingo cards!

£10 FREE to all new players who sign up at Mirror Bingo this week only - click here!

One more thing for all you bingo buddies who haven’t got a Mirror Bingo account as yet – sign up this week to get £10 FREE no deposit bonus – offer is good until midnight on Sunday Nov 2 – so make haste and grab your £10 Free bingo bonus while you can!

I know, I’m writing about Wink Bingo again - but I can’t help it cos there’s just so much going on at Wink Bingo I have to share the news with you guys, my online bingo buddies!

Wink Bingo lives and breathes online bingo, just look at all their great bingo promotions, fantastic bingo games and huge jackpots. This last week of October is no exception to the Wink Bingo rule, check out what they’ve got in store for us hardcore bingo fans:

Daily £150 Cash Giveaway

The daily Wink Bingo “Eat In or Takeaway” bingo promotion runs right up until Oct 31, every day at 8.45pm exactly. You can win £150 in just a few minutes of playing online bingo just by being the first to fill your bingo card!

Win a Canon Ixus on Wed 29 Oct

Make a date for the Hidden Treasures room at Wink Bingo this Wednesday 29 October - this cool bingo game kicks off at 9.15pm sharp, and you could win a shiny new Canon Ixus digital camera - and even choose the colour of this stylish camera.

Huge Guaranteed Jackpot £5,000 this Thursday Oct 30

And how could we forget the HUGE monthly special at Wink Bingo - we’re talking about none other than the £5K Club bingo game with a massive guaranteed jackpot of £5,000! Bingo tickets cost just £1 each, and you’ll need to buy a minimum of 5 tickets. Make good use of the pre-purchase option and spread out your bingo budget - not that you’ll need to be so careful if you happen to win the huge £5,000 jackpot! GL!

Wink Bingo have an exciting bingo jackpot game for every day of the year, and today is no exception. The 20th of each month is special at Wink Bingo, as it’s the online bingo game with a guaranteed £3,000 jackpot!

If you’re looking for a good game of online bingo, then choose a Guaranteed Jackpot game. The Guaranteed means exactly that - somebody has to win £3K tonight at Wink Bingo.

Guaranteed Jackpots are a speciality at Wink Bingo, with £10K, £5K, £3K and £2K bingo games scheduled for every month - that’s an awful lot of chances to win big at bingo!

Wink Bingo have made it so easy for bingo fans to play these regular Guaranteed Jackpot games, as they’re all pre-purchase - which means you can buy your bingo cards for the game and you don’t even have to be there to play - as it’s all taken care of for you. Isn’t that nice of the Wink Bingo crew?!

Wink Bingo are also pretty cool to bingo newbies signing up for the first time, giving away £15 Free Cash to all new roomies plus a cool 200% First Deposit Bonus - making sure that your money goes an awfully long way at this great online bingo site.

The pre-purchase option also means you’ve got more control over your online bingo budget. Bingo tickets for tonight’s big game cost just £1 a piece, minimum is 5 cards - but for a whopping prize of £3,000 and some hot online bingo action, I think it’s terrific value for money!

Platinum Play Bingo provides 90 colourful balls of bingo fun and excitement for bingo lovers of this traditional game. The special thing about this online bingo website is that you get can have your very own personalised Bingo Ball for Life - which means you can design your very own bingo ball to use in all your bingo games PLUS you’re in with a chance of hitting the absolutely huge £50,000 Bingo Ball for Life Jackpot!

October has been a busy month for all online bingo websites, not least Platinum Play Bingo. Every £10 you deposit during this month gets you a free entry into the monthly bingo prize draw, with prizes including a cool Fuji digital camera, 3 iPod Shuffles, special deposit vouchers to bump up your bingo chances and tons of BBz (bingo points).

Current bingo promotions at Platinum Play Bingo include the Haunted House Giveaway with loads of BBz to be won on top of your bingo wins up to 19 Oct. Starting on 20 Oct all week there’ll be midnight feast bingo games with even more BBz up for grabs for 1 line, 2 line and full house bingo winners.

Platinum Play Bingo also have some spooky Halloween prizes in the last week of October with their Halloween Bingo game - just check the daily schedule for details. With a total of £1344 up for grabs in BBz it’s a really fun way to boost your BBz while you play bingo online.

New members at Platinum Play Bingo are welcomed with £5 Free which gives you a great chance to ‘try before you buy’ on their bingo games, plus your first deposit gets 100% extra bonus, and all reloads are rewarded with 25% extra free - your money goes a long way at Platinum Play Bingo!

Bet365 Bingo is a versatile online Bingo site, offering playing opportunities of Bingo games varieties along with the inseparable aspect of land-bingo clubs, and providing a social gathering atmosphere to chat with friends. The side attractions of Casino games as in the Bingo clubs of UK were added one by one later.  

With more and more online Bingo sites coming on the skyline, encouraged by the tremendous response from the British populace, the scope of gaming and betting on these sites increases daily, and today the prestigious International betting sites have opened shop in the United Kingdom. These sites have retained their opportunities for betting on all sports – from American Football to Ice Hockey, or cricket to horse racing.  

Bet365 Bingo is one such comprehensive online site, with betting opportunities throughout the 365 days of a year, along with the non-stop fun of Bingo game varieties of 75 Ball and 90 Ball that can be played in 4 Bingo rooms.  The chat games provide fantastic opportunities of making new friendships with International players and chat endlessly, keeping an eye on the Bingo game you are playing. 

All the links are colourfully provided right on the Home Page of Bet365 to click and enter. The site attracts Bingo lovers by giving away free money of £10 No Deposit required welcome bonus; 200% first deposit matching bonus up to £50; and re-load bonus of 50% on all further deposits upto £100, to boost the bankroll of the players to play continuously. 

Bet365 Bingo promotions give great rewards to their online bingo members, by staking from just a penny to up to £100 and you can win great prizes. Everyday at their Island Hopper Room Penny Bingo games can be played to convert your pennies into Pounds; from Monday to Thursday at specific times you get extra tickets free – Buy One and Get One Free offer provides this; everyday Bingo Linx can get you £250 or £500 prize monies on the games you choose; Big Money Games on Fridays are waiting with £1,000 to £3,000 throughout the month of October. 

Topping them all is their October Super Promotion – You and your guest win a free trip to Paris to see Sir Elton John on his Red Piano Tour in early December. This fabulous bingo prize package to Paris includes sightseeing in the most romantic city of the world, think Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and a leisurely cruise on the Seine; this superb prize package can be won just by playing Bingo at Bet365 Bingo - every £100 staked in October will get you a ticket for this fabulous prize draw!