Blackout Bingo

February 23, 2010 | Author: admin

Blackout bingo is one of the most popular types of bingo patterns.  When your playing bingo online or maybe even at your local VFW organizations usually use this pattern for their jackpot games because it is the most difficult pattern to get and therefore makes the game longer and more exciting for everyone.

black out bingo cardThree examples of Blackout patterns in both 75, 80 and 90 ball bingo.

In 75-ball blackout bingo you have to cover all 25 spots on your bingo card. It takes at least 24 calls to cover them all, since you get the middle spot for free. Make sure to pay close attention to the Bingo Caller to make sure you don’t miss any of the numbers called!

It may take a minimum of 24 calls to get a blackout bingo, but if you happened to get one in fewer than even 40 calls you would be considered a very lucky person. Most blackout bingo games end between the 55th to 60th call, depending on how many players are in the game. Also a new growing trend if a blackout is not called within the first 60 balls it is rolled over until the next blackout bingo game. This can make the prizes very large and have scene a few jackpots being well over $2,000.00

As for 80 ball bingo, all 16 squares must be covered for a blackout bingo, and in 90 ball bingo a Full House (with all 27 squares marked off) is considered a  blackout bingo.

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Did you know that many bingo rooms offer other games including slots like the Sex In The City Slot Machine? You can even play scratch cards while you are playing bingo online at some of these sites.

Play Bingo for Free with a No Deposit Bingo Bonus

December 29, 2011 | Author: admin

Have you ever wanted to play bingo online, but you didn’t want to deposit any money before you try? Now you can, because some online bingo sites will offer you a free bingo bonus that you can use to purchase bingo cards and tickets to their popular bingo games.

Where do I find these No Deposit Bingo Bonuses?

These bonuses aren’t too common. Most places I’ve seen will give you a bonus only if you make a deposit. You will usually have to deposit a small amount and you will receive a 200% to 500% bonus on top of that.

I have a couple of places that you should check out if you are from the US or the UK. These free bingo bonuses aren’t going to make you a whole lot of money. They are primarily there to give you the real experience of playing in the bingo rooms. You will have a chance to win and you can make the free money last for a while if you get lucky.

Most no deposit bonuses will have a set of rules that must be followed and completed before you can withdraw money. The first rule is that you can only use the bonus money to purchase bingo cards and tickets in the bingo rooms. Most online bingo rooms offer side games such as slots and casino games. You won’t be able to play these games with a free bingo bonus.

The second rule of the free bonus is that you will be required to purchase a certain amount in the bingo rooms before you can request a withdrawal. This is called the rollover. Free bonuses will have a rollover between 2 and 5 times the amount that you receive. That means if you receive $/£5 for free and the rollover is 4, you will be required to purchase (5 x 4) or $/£20 in bingo cards/tickets. Of course, that means that you will have to win in the bingo rooms to even complete the bonus.

USA Free Bingo

Amigo Bingo – You can get $20 for free to play bingo just for joining Amigo Bingo. It is called their $20.00 Test Drive. All you have to do is fill out a simple form and register with them and you will get $20 to play at 25¢ and dime bingo rooms. There is a new game starting each hour at both of these rooms.

This is a Test Drive bonus and you cannot cash any winnings out. However, if you decide that you like Amigo Bingo, they will give you a 500% bonus (up to $500) on your first deposit. Simply make a deposit between $25 and $100 and you will receive a bonus between $125 and $500! You can qualify for additional bonuses if you have deposited more than $250.

Big Time Bingo – Big Time Bingo may only give you $5 for free, but this is a bonus that you can actually win money on if you are lucky. All you have to do is sign up with Big Time Bingo and you will instantly get $5 for free to play their bingo games.

Big Time Bingo has four bingo rooms broken down by stakes. There is a $1 High Roller Room, a 25¢ Quarter Room, a 10¢ Dime Room and a Free Bingo Room. These rooms generally open at 5pm EST and close an hour or two after midnight. They offer over 100 different patterns for the bingo cards and you will be able to see the upcoming rotation.

UK Free Bingo

Ruby Bingo – You can get a £16 No Deposit Bingo Bonus from Ruby Bingo. In order to receive this free bonus, you must sign up an account. Then, click the “Free £16 Bonus” button in the welcome email that Ruby Bingo sends to you. You will be credited with the £16 which you can use to purchase bingo tickets in any of Ruby Bingo’s rooms: 75 Ball, 80 Ball, 90 Ball, pattern bingo, speed bingo, penny bingo and more!

888 Ladies – You can get £5 for free when you sign up at 888Ladies. You will also be able to receive a 200% bonus up to £200 on your first deposit. That means if you deposit £100, you will start with £305 in your bingo account!

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Best UK Bingo Sites

August 3, 2011 | Author: admin

best-bingo-sitesWhen it comes to picking the best online bingo rooms for the UK, there is a lot of good competition to choose from. You aren’t going to find the magical place to play that you are going to win at more often, good luck charms aside. For the most part, online bingo sites are not really unique.

The experience should mostly be the same: easy and quick deposits and withdrawals, good welcome bonuses with rules that are fair for players, monthly promotions, free and bogof bingo, a good support staff, great bingo jackpots and a great community of players. You know, the thing that every single bingo rooms says to try to promote themselves.

How should I know where to play?

Of course, this is completely subjective and what I say here is only a guideline to finding the perfect place to play. Trial and error may be involved; this is why online bingo sites lure people in with the welcome bonus. Even if you didn’t like your experience for one reason or another, you get some extra money to try to win a jackpot and you didn’t have to spend a lot to learn that you didn’t like it.

You have to ask yourself what you are trying to accomplish when you are playing online bingo. Are you just there to meet up with friends and chat? If you don’t really care about winning a lot of money and just want to chat and socialize, there are a lot of bingo sites that offer Free Bingo tickets and bogof bingo jackpots for the frugal players.

Are you trying to have a better chance at winning a line or full house? Then you should find a smaller bingo room. As a rule, the cheaper bingo games will be more popular. A lot of the tickets start at 10p each. You may find it easier to play with fewer tickets in the rooms that cost £1 each. However, you may find this method more expensive so make sure that you are not losing more money than you are willing to.

Do you play bingo like it is the lottery? Then you will want to play in the largest bingo tournaments. You can play in a Bingo Linx, which is simply many online bingo rooms pooling their players into one massive jackpot. You won’t have a great chance to win, but if you do the winnings will make it worth it.

Best UK Bingo Sites

This is only going to have a couple of my personal best bingo sites to play at. If you would like some more options, check out bingowebsites.com.

Mecca Bingo – This one should have been obvious. I’ve only made a couple of different posts about Mecca here and here. That should be enough reason for you to try them out.

Ladbrokes Bingo – Here is the other place that I like to play at. Ladbrokes Bingo just about has it all. For the frugal players, they offer Penny Bingo. Every afternoon between 1pm and 4pm, you can purchase penny tickets. Prize pools are between £10 and £40

If you are looking for the big games, Ladbrokes has got them. There is a Ladbrokes Link with prize pools between £100 and £250 between 10am and Midnight (excluding a couple of hours). Tickets for these games are only 10p to 20p per ticket.

There are also larger bingo Linx every day starting at Noon, every evening starting at 6pm, and every night starting a 10:30pm. The prizes range from £150 to £500 for 1 line, £350 and £1,000 for 2 lines and £1,000 to £2,500 for a Full House. Tickets for these Bingo Linx cost 50p per ticket.

If you would like to try playing at Ladbrokes Bingo, you can receive £20 for free if you deposit and play £5 on bingo tickets.

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Bingocams – Play Bingo via Webcam

July 26, 2011 | Author: admin

Here is another interesting way to play online bingo. Not only have bingo halls taken bingo to the internet and even to your mobile phones, but you can bring the bingo action inside your home by setting up a webcam while you play bingo.

The one thing that has been lost between playing at a bingo hall and playing bingo online is that chatting with your friends takes on two totally different meanings. Chatting with your friends on a website usually means typing in your messages, which isn’t difficult but still requires some concentration while the numbers are being called.

Communication is the main improvement that using the webcam will have on your online bingo experience. With the different video chat messengers that are now available, it didn’t take long for some to realise that they should incorporate this technology with their bingo software.

If you would like to learn more about this topic, please visit our friends at www.WebcamBingo.org.

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Bingocams is the first and currently the only (as of July 2011) website that has software that allows the use of webcams to view yourself and other bingo players. You can set up a friend list with other Bingocams players and connect to their webcams for a video chat.

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One of the cool things that Bingocams promotes is the “Live Win Moments”. These are videos of the winning moments that are captured via your webcam as you win a jackpot. All you need to do is accept the agreement for bingocams to record your winning moment and you will be able to see your winning bingo jackpot moments online.

You don’t have to accept the agreement; but Bingocams wanted to create a fun atmosphere and is giving players who agree an extra 15% more to the jackpot they just won.

Get £5 Free at Bingocams

Are you interested in giving Bingocams a try? You can get £5 free without needing to make a deposit if you would like to purchase some bingo tickets on the house. You probably should already have the webcam, but you can still play without one.

All you need to do to get the £5 free is open an account with Bingocams. They will give you free bonus when the account is opened.

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Playing Bingo on your Mobile Phone

June 29, 2011 | Author: admin

mobile-bingoHey there UK bingo fans! Would you like to be able to play your favourite bingo games at anytime and from just about anywhere? Take a look at the mobile bingo games that are being offered at Mecca Bingo. These games will work on many smart phones including iPhone and Android.

Mecca Bingo now has an app for the iPhone in the App Store or you can download Mecca Bingo on your Android. This means that you can now play 90 ball bingo on your iPhone, iPad or iPod! You will be playing for the same jackpots and prizes as the online players that play from their PC.

iPhone Bingo Players

mecca-bingo-mobile-lobbyIf you already have a Mecca bingo account, you can log in with your existing information or you can create a new account if you are new to Mecca bingo. Once you have clicked on the bingo room that you want to play in, select a number of tickets to purchase. The tickets you bought will appear in Red.

As the game goes on, your tickets will be reordered based on the number of balls you have left to go on the ticket. You can double tap on the ball in the top left corner if you want to view the numbers that have already been called. You can also double tap on your tickets to zoom in and out.

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There is also a quick text features switch between your tickets and chat with other Mecca bingo players without any hassle. When one of your tickets is a winner, you will see your winning ticket along with the amount that you have won.

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How to download to iPhone

To download Mecca bingo straight to your phone: Click on the iPhone App Store logo and search for “Mecca Bingo” in the store search. Select the free app to download it.

Android Bingo Players

There isn’t going to be a whole lot that is different between the play on these two phones. The lobby, rooms and chat are all virtually identical to the way Mecca bingo appears on the iPhone. The only major difference between the two phones is the way that you have to download Mecca bingo.

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How to download to Android

It is a little bit different for users of the Android. The Mecca Bingo Android app is not found in the Android Market. If you want to download this app on your phone, text AndroidBingo to 64555 or visit their website via you mobile web browser.

The phone will need to be set to allow applications to download from “Unknown Sources”. To do this, go to Settings -> Applications and check the box that says Unknown Sources. You can uncheck this button once you have downloaded Mecca Bingo.

Want to know more about Mecca Bingo? Check out this review that I made for them in a prior post.

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7 Winning Bingo Tips

March 23, 2011 | Author: admin

You are up against the whole crowd when you play bingo games online. Everyone around you has a bingo card in his hand. Each one of these cardholders has an equal chance of winning the game. Bingo is a game of luck and luck is as unpredictable as tossing a coin.

You don’t know what’s going to be the result. But when you want to be a long-term player and want to make some good winnings in bingo, you can try a few tips which make luck favor you more then it use to. So, let’s take a look at 7 basic bingo strategies:

  1. Play in smaller gatherings: As I said, every player can win and every bingo card has an equal chance of being the winning card. So, it becomes obvious that the lesser the cards, the more the chances of any one card winning. If you have a choice, play with the group with the least number of people. This rule especially applies for online bingo where you can choose from a few chat rooms to play in.


  2. Buy more cards: This is not a flat rule. You should buy more cards, but keep in mind that all cards come for a cost. You can’t just buy too many cards and end up loosing in every game. If 50 people are playing in a game, your chances of winning are 2%. You can’t waste too much money for such a small winning chance. Also, keep the amount of the jackpot in mind, before you decide the number of cards to purchase.


  3. Be alert: The caller is not going to wait for everyone to make note of the numbers that are called. He is going to call just one time and then go on with the next one. Keep your ears open in the real game and eyes open in the online version. Missing even a single number can cost you the game. If you are playing online that it is better to choose the auto-daub option, as that can reduce the amount of continuous attention needed for the game.


  4. Know the rules: You cannot win at any game if you don’t know the rules. The same goes for Bingo. If you don’t know the rules, you will not know the right way to play and even luck favors you, things can go wrong because your lack of knowledge. So, read blogs, guides or books to know more about the game.


  5. Fill all the cards: If you are playing with more than one card, then it can get difficult to daub the numbers on all of them. It is easy to miss out on numbers or mark the wrong ones. But of these can make you loose the game. So, don’t buy more cards than you can handle or be quick and accurate with the daubing.


  6. Play at the right place: In case you are playing online, choose the right online casino to do it. You can easily get fooled into spending more money or maybe you can be cheated into loosing. Both of these are good enough reasons to avoid playing at online casinos about which you can’t find good reviews or recommendations on trusted review sites. Always check the certifications and payment terms and conditions before playing.


  7. Check for the best deals: You can consider yourself to have lost a game if you can’t find the best offer on the internet. There are many online casinos offering sign-up bonuses, free playing points, comp-points etc. These offers give you the best value for your money and it’s really worth you time to look for the best of these offers.

Using these simple strategies can mean the difference between having some fun while playing black out bingo or doing any other kind of bingo gambling and losing consistently and getting frustrated with the game.

As with any form of entertainment that you get from betting, if you find yourself on a bad streak and aren’t in the correct frame of mind, quit for a little while and come back with a fresh attitude. That always seems to be the best way to help you avoid throwing money down an endless hole.

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