Pre-Helloween bingo frenzy

A truly record-breaking day for bingo, Halloween, Friday October 31, 2008 -will see the online bingo scene metamorphosed into a furious frenzy of cut-throat competition with bingo sites fighting for the best bingo action this weekend. It’s a glorious opportunity for us online bingo fans to pick and choose at leisure where we want to spend our Halloween bingo budget - and pick up some crazy bingo prizes on the way!

Never in the history of bingo online has there been so much action in one day, so many bulging bingo marketing brains behind boombastic bingo promotions on the Halloween theme, and so much bingo treasure up for grabs! It’s a totally wild day for online bingo, and the cleverer sites like Wink Bingo are keeping the action going all weekend, not giving us poor bingo lovers a chance to do anything else except play bingo online non-stop through the weekend. But oh, the wicked treats that lie in store for us…

No pain, no gain, my bingo buddies and friends. So grit your teeth, get in the supplies, pull up your lucky bingo socks and make a list of those important games you just can’t miss and settle down for the long bingo grind.

Make sure you don’t miss Friday night’s £1K guaranteed jackpot bingo game at Wink Bingo - if you don’t win you get a full refund on all your tickets - LOL - in my honest opinion, one of the coolest Halloween bingo promotions this year! Just love them cheeky folks at Wink Bingo!

If we’re really on our toes at BingoStreet, we might just make your life easier and make a list of all the best bingo action on this weekend - save you poor folks the trouble, so you can conserve your energy for the loooooooong online bingo weekend ahead.

Wherever you play, enjoy the freaky wild fun and boosted bingo jackpot games as it comes but once a year, and enjoy the bingo!

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Bingo chat room social etoquette

Bingo chat rooms are a buzzing online community. There are certain socially acceptable behaviours that are allowed in the bingo chat rooms and certain things that are not. What you have to remember is that bingo is a heavily social game that encourages players to become part of a community and share the pleasures of the great game of bingo.

Whether the bingo game takes place in a traditional bingo hall or in a church, the community aspect of the game is always the strongest. Bingo is also a favourite way for the community to raise money for charity, and have some fun at the same time, everyone coming together to support each other and make new friends.

The advent of bingo online still focuses on the community spirit of the game, and every good bingo website worth its salt will have a selection of bingo chat rooms with a buzzing bingo community full of chatty players and friendly CM’s, allowing you to chat and play bingo online simultaneously.

Bingo chat rooms are all being social and having a great time, sharing the latest gossip (if you’re already familiar with the other bingo buddies), cheering each other to win, watching the 3TG, 2TG’s pop-up on screen and hoping you’ll be the one to shout Bingo at the end! Online bingo players definitely love winning, but they’re also some of the most generous hearted people you’ll find online, and are always ready to congratulate other bingo players on their lucky jackpot wins.

We’ve put together a pointers for budding bingo enthusiasts on the social etiquette expected from you, and from other bingo players, in bingo chatrooms, and hope you find them helpful.

• The first rule is to be social. Don’t just sign up to play bingo online and ignore the other players. At least offer a good day, how are you, and congrats to the winner. If you are the winner always be sure to thank everyone for their congrats.
• Don’t go into the bingo chat rooms with an attitude. For example don’t put other players down when you win. Or if you lose don’t be rude.
• You should be polite at all times in the bingo chat rooms even if you feel bad. The other players will be polite to you and offer you condolences. Usually there are only one to three winners in a game, so think of the others that have lost.
• Foul language is not warranted at anytime, even if you are trying to be funny.
• Other players will offer respect where they receive it. They like to be appreciated for their part in the game, just as you will.
• It’s always nice to introduce yourself, and invite others to do so too.
• You can even start the chat in the bingo chat rooms if conversation is lagging.
• Take advantage of all the social features on the bingo sites. You will feel rewarded and enjoy a much richer experience while playing bingo online.

These are just some of the social etiquette rules you should follow in the bingo chat rooms. The most important one is to realise that you have joined a community that loves to socialise and wants you to take part and have fun with them in the bingo games.

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Bingo online guide. What you need to know

Are you new to the world of online bingo? If you are feeling a bit lost then don’t worry, there are many online bingo guide sites to help you. The very first thing you need to decide is where to play bingo online, and we would recommend starting your online bingo action with a safe, trusted and established bingo website such as Wink Bingo – perfect for newbies to bingo, a really friendly and helpful bingo community with lovely Chat Hosts and many other bingo players ready to help if you get stuck, plus a cool £15 Free no deposit bonus you can use to try out all the bingo games first at no cost to yourself.

The biggest and best thing about bingo online is that it’s a very social game – but there’s absolutely no pressure on you to be social if you’re not in the mood, or are a bit intimidated by all the goofy gossip in the bingo online chat rooms. It’s always your choice to join in or not. You can just login and play bingo online without using the chat feature – but you can still watch other people chatting, which is a great way to learn the bingo lingo and the many shortcuts that bingo buddies use to communicate. However you’d be missing out on a lot of fun, not to mention the great bingo chat games, and the chance to make new friends playing bingo online.

So, you’ve chosen a good site to play at, you’ve been reading the chats of other bingo players, and you’ve played your £15 Free – you might even have hit a bingo jackpot in which case you’ll find other players congratulating you – it’s always nice to say thanks, and you’ll find that bingo players are always cheering each other on, so it’s a great way to plunge into the chat feature and start making new bingo buddies.

The next thing you’ll want to do is fund your bingo account – Wink Bingo offer a wide variety of payment options, so you should have no problem choosing the method that suits you best. Simply fund your online bingo account and then you’re ready to purchase bingo cards – you can always choose from a selection, so you can pick lucky numbers, or just go with the flow. The more bingo cards you buy for a bingo game the better your chances of winning, but this also depends on the number of people in the bingo game. At Wink Bingo you can buy bingo cards for as little as 5p, which means you can play online bingo to your heart’s delight without spending a ton of cash.

Traditional British bingo is played with 90 balls, and these tickets are sold in strips. But if you buy bingo tickets for a 75 ball game you can buy single bingo tickets. Both games are played differently, there’s 3 chances to win in 90 ball bingo and generally just one chance in 75 ball bingo. The more you play the more you’ll find out which type of bingo game suits you best. At any time if you don’t understand the rules just ask for help, the guys at Wink Bingo offer superb online help, and also Chat Room help – all you have to do is ask, and enjoy the bingo fun!

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How to find the best bingo website?

When you set out to find the best bingo game around many people rely on bingo reviews. It is a good way to find the best online bingo site because they will tell you all the different aspects of each site they have visited. When you look on the web for reviews they will show you the top sites and why they think they are the best bingo site.

How do you decide which points of the review give you the most comprehensive data? It will take a little time to research the online bingo reviews on different sites and see who you get the most benefit from. There are many sites that don’t review the game site as much as they just tell you what they have to offer. While this is good information and you will want to have it, it differs from an actual review.

You will want to know why people think the bingo site they play at is best and what options the website has to offer. Most review sites will be unbiased and just give you some facts. They will point out the highlights of a particular bingo site, what drew them to the bingo site and any current bingo promotions they may have. These key points should help you determine which sites you want to look into. They also should give you the confidence that they are legitimate sites. Don’t forget there are bingo websites out there that are scams and you should be able to avoid these by reading more than one review.

The review sites usually tell you the top five or ten bingo online sites. You can feel confident when you look into these bingo sites that you will find the best bingo site to play on. A good indicator is how long the bingo site has been in business. The rating system on one such online bingo review site uses a star system so that you can easily see if they have top star billing.

The best online bingo sites all have chat rooms that customers really enjoy as you can develop a social network of bingo friends with the same interest. You will find that this creates a fun atmosphere for playing bingo online. We found new bingo sites in many reviews that have consistently been in the top five. They have easy sites to navigate, great incentives and bingo promotions for new players and top deposits bonuses. They also offer big bingo jackpot games throughout the month that can pay amazingly high cash rewards. So when you want to find the best bingo site read a review to help you.

Written by : Bingo Lady

Bingo Heaven this week at Paddy Power Bingo

Paddy Power Bingo are having a month-long party with their Octoberfest celebrations in honour of their Gold Bingo room turning 2 earlier this month. This Irish online bingo website is worth it’s weight in gold, and bingo fans are truly spoilt for choice this month with extra bingo promotions and a whole load of free bingo games to choose from!

Free Bingo Games are always a plus for any bingo buddy, as they brings an extra thrill of winning something for nothing. Those of us who are tuned into online bingo and love the game for it’s sheer unpredictability and the great social scene, never say no to a game of free bingo - that would be silly!

There is a special breed of bingo player that refuses to play free bingo games - and I’m definitely not one of those. Show me a free bingo game and I’m on it! I look upon free bingo games as a reward for the time and money I spend at these bingo sites, and I appreciate them. If you find an online bingo website that doesn’t do free bingo games, at least sometimes, their bingo roomies won’t be so happy.

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The international game of Online Bingo

There’s a brand new online bingo site just launched last week in Finland, and the locals are going crazy for it and just can’t get enough!

I’m not exactly a linguistic expert, let alone in English, but I wonder how you say ‘Bingo’ in Finnish? It’s probably one of those words that’s impossible to translate. And where did the word Bingo come from anyway?

Some say that the term Bingo is related to the game of Keno, dating back to as early as 1814 in USA, which comes from the Latin word ‘quini’ - meaning five (winning numbers) as in a Lotto game.

Others say that Bingo started off as a Lotto-like game that can be traced back to the mid-16th century in Italy, and slowly spread across Europe arriving in the USA in 1929 where it was promptly called Beano - due to the fact that it was played with beans instead of bingo balls!

I think I’d enjoy a game of Beano, it does have a certain ring to it, but if you compare the phrase Online Beano to Online Bingo, for me the latter comes out tops.

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Wink Bingo 3K Jackpot coming up soon

Wink Bingo are holding their cool £3K guaranteed jackpot bingo game on Monday night at 10pm sharp. This game kicks off every month on the 20th, and although not as huge as the £10K guaranteed bingo jackpot on the 10th of each month, I definitely would not complain if I won £3,000 for playing my favourite online bingo games at Wink Bingo!

Three grand is a fair whack of dosh, and I’m quite sure I could even spend it in less than a day. It’s an amount that’s not too overwhelming, and if I do win the £3K jackpot at Wink Bingo this month I know how I’m going to spend it.

I’d pre-purchase my tickets for the whole month of big jackpot games at Wink Bingo, even if I only buy 5 bingo cards for each online bingo game that’s just a fiver - and the chances of winning the bingo jackpot are always there…

I’m sure that all bingo online players dream of hitting the big one, it is after all the underlying reason why we play bingo online - to win a huge pot of cash! But there’s definitely more to online bingo than the big winnings, I’m equally thrilled to win a small bingo game jackpot, even a 1 line win on bingo sends me spinning with delight!

That being said, if I do win the 3K jackpot on Monday night at Wink Bingo, I might just disappear for a few days, as I’ll probably be recovering from a huge bingo booze hangover!

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Take part in the Bingo World Record attempt

Friday night at 11.45pm if you’re not out partying then stay at home and bingo your way into the Guinness Book of Records with your TV and free bingo cards!

Instead of my usual Friday night routine (fish and chips for one, online bingo, and a DVD) I’ll be perched on the edge of my seat with my free bingo tickets, doing my bit for bingo record breaking with ITV’s Bingo Night Live. It’s actually free to play, you just have to register to play bingo online at their website.

BingoStreet reported earlier this week of a £60K jackpot, well it’s now grown to more than £100K Guaranteed Jackpot! Plus there’s some really cool bingo prizes (for bingo blokes at least), including 75 season tickets to Old Trafford!

I know TV Bingo is comparatively new but with huge guaranteed bingo jackpots and prizes like these up for offer, it’s not surprising that it’s getting to be the hottest thing in bingo since the invention of bingo balls! And tell me, how often do you get the chance to break a world record?!

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Immortalise yourself for free with Wink Bingo

Wink Bingo are pulling out all the stops to promote their online bingo games to the general public in the UK, and I truly applaud these folks for the sheer originality of their bingo campaigns.
Wink Bingo are currently making pitstops all across the UK with a great freebie for members of the public – your own professional portrait! Normally you’d expect an online bingo campaign to be more relevant with respect to the game of bingo, but the only connection you’ll find between a portrait and bingo is Wink Bingo.
I’m sure this campaign will increase the bingo site’s popularity even more, as members of the public will be flocking to the Wink Bingo website to view their portraits, and also perhaps discover the delights that online bingo has to offer – at least at Wink Bingo!

They’ve already conquered Birmingham, and over the next few weekends in October will be visiting Dudley and Redditch too, see our online bingo news article for details – if you’re in the area, why not pop down and immortalise yourself, courtesy of the Wink Bingo team.
Now, when are they coming to London….

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Promos for October

I just love months like this, when any excuse for a party is good in the world of online bingo. The advent of the colder months for us Brits, and Halloween coming up at the end of the month, makes it an ideal opportunity for online bingo sites to appeal to our spine-tingling senses with extra prizes and bingo promotions to celebrate such events. So far the best dressed site for me is the 888ladies bingo site - they’re really going to town!

I take great pleasure in comparing the bingo promotions alongside one another, looking at what one bingo site does, and then checking against the next. The online bingo industry has a massive 3 million and counting customer base of bingo fans in the UK, but with so many bingo sites to choose from, competition for our attention is very tough!

Bring it on, I say! Pile on the bingo promotions like there’s no tomorrow. I love to play bingo online anyway, so all the better if there’s an extra carrot for the donkey! Plus it’s getting colder and we’re all spending much more time indoors, in front of the computer or television, playing the odd game of online bingo!

Enjoy the bingo this weekend folks, I most certainly will be!

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online bingo vs traditional bingo

For those traditional purists who maintain that bingo should never have made the transition to online bingo, I gently thumb my nose at you. The move to the internet bingo has injected a totally new lease of life into this popular game, and made it even more accessible and available to people who might have poopoohed bingo before.

The social aspect of bingo has always been a vital factor in the game’s appeal. A night down at the bingo club, traditionally a pastime for the older generation, who are we to sniff when 20, 30 years later down the line there’ll we be too? (Except we won’t have to traipse down to the local bingo club for a game)!

I won’t go so far to say as online bingo is a genius move, as it was just the logical next step - what with online casinos, poker etc. However, this is one game that has truly profited from the move to the virtual world, sparking a massive interest from players new to the world of bingo and online bingo, and staying true to the social roots of bingo.

Moving bingo online has opened up the delights of this deceptively simple game and made it available for the pleasure of millions of bingo fans around the world. And I’m proud to be one of them!

Written by Bingo Lady