New to online bingo for November 2011 is Benidorm Bingo. It launched on the Better Bingo Network and is licensed by Endemol Productions – giving the added bonus of being the bingo site for the ITV hit-show Benidorm.
At Benidrom Bingo players will be able to enjoy up to 11 different bingo rooms. The games include 90 ball bingo (of course!)… as well as 80 and 75 ball and there is also Deal or No Deal Bingo. There are numerous jackpot games on offer, such as the Lucky Numbers and Joker Jackpot.
All new players on the site will be given a 100% welcome bonus, as well as an additional 50% on every future deposit (up to £25). Lots of other bonuses are up for grabs though when playing on the games.
Although fans of the TV show will probably have the most fun on the site, there seems to be something for everyone at BenidormBingo.com. The site design is refreshing and there’s a nicely integrated help feature if you are ever struggling with anything and need to speak to someone.
When we visited the site, the list of recent winners had 5 people who had won over £150, so the prizes are clearly good for a new site like this.
Try it yourself today and let us know what you think!
iBingo is one of the biggest new sites to launch so far in 2011. The site features a design the likes of which we’ve never seen before, and has a cracking £15 free offer to welcome all new players.
On the same day the site launched, iBingo also published research about the habits of iPhone owners in the UK. Specifically the site looked at where people play games on their iPhone. The survey found that a whopping £800m could be wiped from UK businesses due to their staff playing games while at work.
Unusually iBingo has a 222% deposit match bonus (although the iBingo page on Which Bingo seems to suggest only 200%). We’ll let you work it out for yourself what bonus you’ll get… as doing the maths on 222% is beyond us – in short, it’s a lot!
iBingo is also one of the first bingo sites to offer mobile bingo. The technology is still quite new, but it seems to work well on iBingo and is worth checking out the next time you are browsing the web on your mobile phone or tablet.
Some sites opt for big bingo games that offer substantial cash awards. As an illustration Rollover Bingo themed the regular £2,000 prize bingo-game around the Royal Wedding coupled with a day-to-day giveaway of lotto tickets, cash and prizes. Free bingo often figures quite highly and tombola bingo favours the £10,000 daily linked bingo games that are popular with bingo customers.
And now… bingo sites are giving away Take That tickets to bring people in.
Random prize draws have grown in reputation to pay back customers for playing with them on a regular basis. The idea is that members put in and wager a set quantity of money over a stipulated time frame and they are then included in a raffle to win the advertised prize. Online bingo sites that use Gamesys bingo software, that include Sun Bingo, Heart Bingo, CAESARS Bingo and Jackpotjoy have utilised this tool for a while and have distributed some super prizes.
Trips abroad are always a favourite. So too are large money prizes and cars. Sun Bingo is known for giving away a lot of cars. Until 7th July players at Sun Bingo for example can win one of eight holidays up for grabs, including trips to Australia, Paris or New York.
Many other online bingo sites have now utilised this technique of appealing to and holding on to players and the prize of preference at the moment are tickets to see Take That on their reunion tour. Rather than pulling players to the site for just the one night for just the one big bingo game, a selection of online bingo websites are providing Take That prize packages of various value.
Chit Chat Bingo was the first online bingo provider to divulge that they’d obtained Take That tickets to the sold out live concert in Manchester to give away and concluded their contest in March 2011. Chit Chat have fairly recently unveiled one more competition to enable bingo customers to secure tickets to see Take That at Wembley Arena in July 2011.
Some other internet bingo sites are currently promoting the opportunity of winning tickets to a Take That extravaganza just for playing bingo at their bingo site. Included in this are Bucky Bingo, Sky Bingo and Betfred Bingo. The Sky Bingo promotion is loyalty based, but does end with a special bingo game to acquire the big prize, but also offers daily rewards to players, by using loyalty points and bonus deals on the road to qualification for the bingo game itself.
Part of the excitement in playing 90 ball bingo online is making friends and chatting with them as you play the game. We all want to win the jackpot, but while we’re waiting our ‘turn’ it’s always nice to have a mate or two to talk to while waiting for the balls to be called or in between rounds or games.
Unfortunately, too many of us are not the typists we should be and while getting caught up in chat, the game goes on without us. For this reason alone, many people should take the time to learn common chat abbreviations to use when chatting in 90 ball bingo. It’s fun to have friends, even unseen friends on the other side of cyberspace, but it is also fun to win!
It only takes a moment to type in WTG, but a bit longer to find the keys for ‘way to go!” when someone gets bingo. Learning bingo speak not only helps you spend more time listening to the calls, but also enables others to quickly glance down at a few letters and instantly recognize what you are trying to convey. You spend less time distracted, and so do they.
So keep on shooting for that full house to win the 90 ball bingo jackpot, but also learn the bingo speak you’ll need when chatting during the play. All the way around it’s a great game and you shouldn’t miss a moment of it trying to type as fast as you think.
While there are a number of bingo games that can be played for free online, 90 ball bingo is still an all time favourite in the UK. Traditionally played in bingo halls across the UK, this game is really hot online and is played in much the same way. It is possible to find both free online 90 ball bingo games and games that require a deposit to buy the strips.
Perhaps one of the reasons online 90 ball bingo is so popular is because it is something that the avid bingo player understands. Often referred to as full house bingo, this game in which all the numbers on a ticket must be filled in to win the big, is often changed up a bit when playing online. Online games resemble live games in that the tickets are the same and the balls are called in the same fashion, but jackpots and prizes are often awarded differently.
Another reason why online 90 ball bingo is so popular is because the player can actually sit back with a cuppa, and dressed in nothing but their robes or nightclothes. Players make online friends with whom they chat on a daily basis, yet need not get dressed up to have a friendly chat or to play a quick game or two.
Based on the numbers of people who visit UK 90 ball bingo games online, it is one of the most popular games of all time. Not only counting bingo, but all other online games as well.
While traditionally in the UK when people play bingo it is usually 90 ball bingo, online games often add a bit of variety to keep the game exciting and somewhat challenging throughout. Traditionally, the game is played in three distinct stages. The first round ends when a player has successfully daubed all the numbers across on a single line. The game continues until a player has daubed two lines and the jackpot or full house is won when a player gets all three lines complete on any one ticket.
Normally the jackpot increases with each successive round. Meaning that if round one (one line complete) wins, for example, 10£ and stage two wins 15£, then a full house might win 25£. However, with internet technology, there are some fun twists to the game that make for a bit of excitement. Each player begins with a ‘pot’ that contains so much money. As each ball is called, the pot decreases by a predetermined amount. It continues to decrease until either the game is over, or the player gets a bingo. Should the player get bingo and call it (press the bingo button online!), then whatever is showing in his or her personal pot is the amount won.
It really gets interesting if you are in chat at the same time and can ‘see’ what other players are doing. They will call out (in chat of course) two numbers to go, one number to go, and so on. Then when someone in another room gets bingo, everyone says ‘ss’ (so sorry in bingo speak) and the next game begins.
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888 Ladies have been named as Bingo Site of the Month by comparison site WhichBingo.co.uk.
888 Ladies, which is part of the wider 888 Holdings group, won the award in November thanks to their massive jackpots and £5 free no deposit offer.
Other hot promotions at 888 Ladies this month include Free Bingo play every hour and the “Perfect Girls Night In” promotion. This see’s Vic Reeves head a promo which has a whopping £90,000 up for grabs every week as well as a whole load of £500 pampering vouchers.
Other top bingo sites for November include the new bingo sites, which are BingoCove and Bingo Please amognst others.
In any game of bingo, you know that the person who gets there first wins the prize. While the numbers called will always be somewhere on your screen, by the time you look down to see what numbers have been called and daub them on the appropriate tickets, someone else could have already called the bingo. When playing 90 ball bingo it is even more important to keep up with the numbers because there are six tickets you will be playing with! They are lined up in a strip of six and each ticket will be 3 rows by 9 columns. Each row will have 5 numbers on it and when you have daubed a complete line, it’s a bingo. Stage two is two lines and stage three is all three lines on the same ticket, commonly referred to as a full house.
To speed up the game, learn where you can find your numbers! Column one will have numbers 1 through 9, while column two will have 10 through 19. The third column is 20 through 29, the fourth 30 through 39, the fifth 40 through 49, the sixth 50 through 59, the seventh 60 through 69 and the eighth has 70 through 79. Finally, since there are 90 numbers, the last column has eleven numbers running from 80 to 90. By learning which column the numbers fall in, when they are called you can quickly spot them on the appropriate ticket to daub them quickly. If you want to win the game, speed is of the essence!
Playing 90 ball bingo is so much fun because you can potentially win up to three times in one game! As the strips are set up, there are 6 tickets per strip with each ticket having 3 rows and 9 columns. The important thing to remember when playing 90 ball bingo is that each line (row) will have exactly 5 numbers filled in spread out across those 9 columns. That is all you will really be concerned with.
The game is played in three distinct stages. The first stage is where balls are called and the player who is able to daub all numbers across any single line first wins that round. There is always a potential for two or more players to get 5 numbers in a line all at the same time. When this occurs, they split the prize for that round. The game continues until someone is able to daub all the numbers on 2 lines in the same ticket. Again, more than one player can daub in two lines simultaneously, which means the prize will be divided among them.
To win the jackpot in 90 ball bingo, a player would have to daub three complete lines on the same ticket. This is referred to as a full house. There have been times when more than one player could call the full house (3 lines on the same ticket) at the same time, but that is very infrequent. The first player to get a full house needs to call it immediately because the game will continue until it has been called. Each successive stage increases the jackpot until full house is won.
Although this is a game that is specific to the UK as North America and several other places use the 75 ball version, 90 ball bingo may be a bit confusing at first to the novice bingo player. The first thing to learn before playing this game is to understand how the tickets are laid out. You will be playing online, of course, so the ‘tickets’ will be on your screen and the dauber will be your mouse, but the game is played exactly the same as it is in bingo halls, and the tickets will be laid out the same.
When playing 90 ball bingo you will get a ‘strip’ of six tickets lined up one on top of the other. Each ticket has 9 vertical columns and three horizontal rows and is called a 3 x 9. Consequently, there will always be only 9 columns but the entire strip will have 18 rows (3 rows times 6 tickets equals 18 rows). This is where it gets a bit complicated to understand.
First of all, 90 ball bingo will have all 90 balls/numbers on the strip. However, each row of 9 will only have 5 numbers across while the first column will have 9 numbers; the next seven columns will have 10 numbers with the final column having 11 numbers. Adding up the columns across you will see that there are exactly 90 numbers. Although each row will have exactly 5 numbers the columns would have nine, ten or eleven numbers.
To make a long story short, a strip has six tickets each being 3 x 9 and there are exactly 90 numbers filled in on the strip, spread out across all six tickets. Understanding the 90 ball bingo strip is just the beginning! From here, you can learn how to play the game.
