15 December 2008

Win a Brand New Mini Cooper

My absolute favourite online bingo website are at it again - pipping everyone else to the post with their fantastic bingo promotions - how do they do it?

At Bingostreet we have a theory, you’re only allowed to work at Wink Bingo if you’re a fun loving bingo mad genius - I’m sure it’s pretty close to the truth. Who would have thought that you could actually win a brand new Mini Cooper just by playing the bingo games on offer at Wink Bingo!

Well it’s absolutely true! And there’s more than one way to get into the absolutely massive bingo game that’ll be playing on New Year’s Day at 7pm - where the HUGE PRIZE is the BRAND NEW MINI COOPER!

The best way is to play bingo games at Wink Bingo, as many as you can, throughout December to build up your bingo points. Not only do you get the chance to win fabulous prizes and cash jackpots along the way in their Advent Calender bingo promotion special, but you can also play their regular bingo games or instant win games such as slots, casino games or even scratchcards! And don’t forget the tons of other special bingo games including the Risk Free Frisky Friday games - free bingo games where you get your money refunded if you don’t win the jackpot!

You’ll build up your points every time you play bingo games, or the other games too, and once you’ve got 500 points you can exchange for a Free Ticket to the HUGE BINGO GAME on New Year’s Day. So play bingo like there’s no tomorrow and get as many free bingo tickets as you can for the massive bingo game on Jan 1st.

Alternatively you could take the easy way and simply pre-purchase bingo tickets for the big game. You can do this anytime from the Wink Bingo lobby. Tickets cost £10 a go, it’s a wee bit more than their regular bingo games, but on the other hand - every ticket you buy gets you another shot at the fantabulous Mini Cooper!

There’s also quite a few other ways to build up your points in December, just check the Wink Bingo website for full details. And if you do happen to be the super lucky bingo player who wins this fantastic prize, you’ll be the guest of honour on Bingostreet in January!

What a way to kick off the New Year! Play at Wink Bingo and GL!!!!!!!

Written by Bingo Lady

11 December 2008

Good and bad online bingo players

It is fun to look at good online bingo players and talk about what they do right. What is even more fun is looking at bad online bingo players and watching what they do wrong. This is one of the quickest ways to get really good at the game. If you learn from the mistakes of those players who just don’t seem to get it, you can ultimately succeed at playing the game. So what are the mistakes of bad online bingo players? Here are a few of them.

Bad online bingo players typically miss on even the most basic rules. Maybe they don’t know how to fill out their cards or they don’t know what each game means. When you don’t have a basic handle on the most elementary rules, you really don’t have a chance to win. Bingo games are highly predicated on luck. Because of that, you just have to be fortunate to win sometimes. The one way to take yourself out of the game is to not know what you are doing, though. The worst online bingo players to play with are those people who just don’t get the rules. Make sure you aren’t one of them.

Bad online bingo players often don’t pay enough attention. They busy doing something else, like writing a paper or talking to their friends, or downloading music or looking at videos online. These bingo players aren’t putting forth nearly enough focus to be successful. They are struggling to get by and they just can’t seem to get it through their head that it takes a huge amount of focus to win at bingo. The awful thing about mistakes like these is that they can be easily prevented. These people could, if they wanted to, play bingo online and win. They just don’t make the necessary moves to get that done and it’s truly sad.

Don’t be like these bad bingo online players. It is a game that can be fun if you are winning. Even if you aren’t fortunate enough to be winning, the game is so much more fun for people who really know what they are doing. Those that don’t are just there for us to laugh at. They are sad cases who often don’t understand why they are throwing their money down the drain, while we all realise that they are making mistakes.

Written by Bingo Lady

08 December 2008

How to speak Bingo Lingo

Half the fun of online bingo is being part of the community and chatting with fellow b-i-n-g-o fanatics.

Online bingo chat rooms are controlled areas, because it’s a safe space for folks from all around the globe to chat, come together, and be entertained by each other and the current Chat master on duty. In this virtual bingo environment, you won’t have any vocal input but will have a general Chat window at your finger tips. Be sure to make yourself heard with the comments you type in this window.

If you have always despised people writing abbreviations like LOL in emails and texts, brace yourself… Bingo is a fast-paced game, especially if you choose the Speed bingo games on offer, and you won’t have time to type in any long drawn out conversations or Shakespearian prose. Therefore you will have to learn to speak Bingo Lingo if you want to keep up with the rest of the players.

Don’t despair though; it can be quite easy to learn Bingolese. If you already enjoy chatting in chat rooms, you should know most of the terms. If you are unfamiliar with chat room lingo, you will find a myriad of abbreviations to cover almost every aspect of the conversation, and it’s very useful if you plan to get a word in edge ways.

Bingo Lingo – some popular terms:

* 10x - Thanks
* 2U2 - To you too
* ?4U - Question for you
* AFK - Away from keyboard
* A/S/L - Age/Sex/Location
* AKA - Also known as
* ASAP - As soon as possible
* BBL - Be back later
* B4 - Before
* B4N - Bye for now
* BLNT - Better Luck Next Time
* BRB - Be Right Back
* CM Chat - Moderator/Master
* CUL8R - See you later
* CYA - See ya
* DIY - Do it yourself
* EOD - End of discussion
* FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
* FYI - For your information
* GG - Good Going
* GL - Good Luck
* GR8 - Great
* IC - I see
* IMO - In My Opinion
* L8R - Later
* L8RG8R - Later gaiter
* LOL - Laughing Out Loud
* PLZ - Please
* PM - Private Message
* PPL - People
* QT - Cute
* SD - Sweet Dreams
* TC - Take Care
* TX - Thanx
* TY - Thank You
* TYU2 - Thank You & you too
* WB - Welcome Back
* WTG - Way to go
* YW - You’re Welcome
* 1tg, 2tg, 3tg etc - one/two/three numbers left to bingo
* Y - Why?

Get to know some of these terms and practise chatting while you play bingo online, and soon you’ll become an expert in Bingo Lingo – GL!

Written by Bingo Lady

04 December 2008

Huge online bingo cash prizes

If you are not used to playing bingo online you may be unaware of the huge cash prizes you can win. The ease of signing up online is safe and secure and it allows you to get right into playing the bingo games. You will find many ways to get online bingo cash prizes. While these sites have slot machine games as well this article will focus only on online bingo cash prizes.

You will have many opportunities to play many different bingo games online, depending on which website you decide to play bingo at. Each individual bingo site has its own bingo promotions and special bingo games, usually a wide range of smaller bingo games and advancing up to the more serious progressive jackpot bingo games. You can also find huge online bingo cash prizes with coverall jackpots.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the different types of prizes it will depend on what you play and how much you pay to get into the online bingo game. You can purchase bingo cards for as little as 5 or 10p per card, or even 1p on some bingo sites, but these bingo games usually offer smaller cash prizes. It will also depend on how many people are playing the game at the same time. These factors determine what the cash prize will be. You will generally have a fairly large selection of bingo games that you can play within this group.

After you feel comfortable with these online bingo games you might want to go on to a coverall jackpot, where the first person to cover all the squares on their bingo card wins – if you can win within a minimum set number of ball calls the bigger the prize. You can play Coverall bingo games on 75 ball game of a 90 ball bingo game and your cash prize can be very lucrative. Many of the sites have an established amount you will win for this type of game, but the prize value can also be tied to the number of bingo players in the game.
The next level of online bingo play might be a progressive jackpot. The money will accrue from game to game if there is no winner. The money can become quite a large online bingo cash prize. If for instance you would have won £250 in the first game but no one was a winner this amount would be applied to the next game and continue on until someone finally wins the bingo jackpot.

Whether you are an experienced online bingo player or not you are sure to find a type of cash prize that will appeal to you. When you play bingo online you could end up a bingo millionaire if your numbers come in on a huge game!

Written by Bingo Lady

02 December 2008

The origins of Bingo

Everybody loves to play bingo games - who doesn’t? For some people, bingo is about raising money for charity. For others, it’s about taking a small chance on winning a very large prize. Others still see the game as a great opportunity to socialise.

But where does it come from, this game we love so much? What are its roots, and how did it evolve to be the game we play today? And did you know that at one stage the game of Bingo was banned by the Catholic Church?

The game of bingo is actually hundreds of years old. Its European country of origin is mildly disputed, but it most likely dates back to around 1530, to an Italian lottery game called “Lo Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia.”

However, before 200 years had passed, the game had matured and was being played in France and Germany. The addition to the game of the ritual of calling out numbers is thought to be a French contribution. Amusingly, it gained a certain notoriety in Europe when it was banned by the Catholic Church, which for a time drove the game underground.

The birth of bingo as we know it today happened in America in 1929. A toy salesman from New York by the name of Edwin Lowe stumbled across a game called Beano being played in a carnival tent in Georgia, played with beans.

Lowe was intrigued but didn’t get a chance to play bingo as the tent was so crowded, but he went home inspired. At home, he developed the game further and invited some friends round to test it. When one of his guests became so excited that, stuttering, she yelled “Bingo!” instead of “Beano,” Lowe realised he was on to a winning idea, and began to market bingo commercially as a board game for playing at home.

Ironically, the Catholic Church who had banned the game more than a century before was the reason for the game’s current epic success. A priest who had been using the game of bingo to raise funds to repair his church’s roof approached Lowe. He said he found the standard bingo cards that came with the box set to be too limited, and requested that some more complex ones be developed.

And so the popular form of bingo we know and love today was born, with 90 balls and thousands of permutations of bingo cards. So next time you’re having a quiet moment at a bingo hall, think about the fact that you’re part of a grand tradition, playing a game that was created almost half a millennium ago.

Written by Bingo Lady

01 December 2008

Top 10 signs that you are addicted to online bingo

I love to play bingo online, and I’m sure you do too. Mostly I play over the weekends, but I’ve been known to log on for a couple of cards on the odd weeknight too.

Last week some friends and I were having a natter over a jar down our local, and the subject of bingo came up, mostly because one of my mates bought us a round with money he’d won playing online bingo the previous week. Naturally we started ribbing him about it, in spite of the free drinks, because my luck’s been rotten lately.

Mixed in with the good-natured banter were a couple of real gems, which I thought I’d share with you. And so without further ado, and with my tongue firmly in my cheek, I present the top signs that you play too much bingo online.

1. Your eyes are red because you’ve been up too late playing online bingo, staring at the computer screen and waiting for one more number, not because you’ve been out partying.

2. A mate tells you a joke and instead of laughing you say, “LOL!”

3. You see someone cute in a pub, but you feed a bit shy. You start wishing this was a bingo chat room.

4. Having worked up the nerve, you walk over and introduce yourself using your bingo screen name.

4. For that matter, the car that you drive has a vanity plate with your bingo screen name on it.

5. After waking up, you log into your favourite bingo website before you make coffee.

6. You’re incredibly bored because there’s nobody interesting to talk to in the bingo chat room.

7. You sign into a bingo game room, and you notice that there’s more than 20 people logged in, many of them friends. The first thing you do is query the Caller about the size of the bingo pot.

8. You nag your real-life friends to join up at your bingo website so that you can hang out with them more often.

9. Someone asks you to repeat what you said, and you respond, “BINGO!”

10. You recognise and laugh at too many items on this list.

There you have it. All things in moderation, eh? See you in the bingo chatrooms …

Written byBingo Lady