Bingo
Friday October 12th 2007
If you have ever played bingo you know how much fun bingo can be. You buy a few cards, usually about ten, and wait for the bingo caller to start pulling the bingo balls out and letting you know which letter and number the ball is so you can mark it off your bingo card/s. There are many prizes available . Bingo prizes for a line and a big prize for a full house, that is getting all your bingo numbers covered before anyone else. When that happens a new game is started. Then there is the big bingo jackpot game which can reach into thousands of pounds.
Everyone has heard of bingo but how many of us have actually played bingo? Well, at the last count 19,673,902,517 since the game was invented. Bingo was not just a game to win a few pennies but more of a social event where mostly women went for the weekly or bi-weekly gossip when the men were out for a few beers.
Bingo began in the 1530's way back before the invention of color. The use of only two different colored balls (black and white) made the game of bingo fairly boring. The bingo caller would always shout out "black three or white 22" and would constantly get bombarded by cabbages and other fruit for making the game of bingo quite tedious.
Thanks to an unnamed gentleman from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in the mid 1960īs, color was invented and given to the world. I bet that was a shock to the system for so many. With color now established in the world, bingo started to be one of the greatest past times for millions.
Bingo halls began popping up all over the world and in another place called England where little, old, blue haired creatures went to have some fun, chat and try to win a few pounds so they could put something on the table, usually a hoola hoop or a spinning top. Some even managed to put a plump egg on the table for all to eat.
Bingo was probably one of the most played games and there were thousands of bingo halls all over the country. Everyone was playing bingo. Bingo began to slow down in the 1980īs as many people began doing other activities but over the last decade more and more people have returned to play that all famous game of bingo. It has become so popular that today you can now play bingo online, which means on the internet, a computer if you like.
Everyone loves bingo no matter what they say and most people have at least played a game or two. With the invention of the internet, bingo is more accessable than ever with more people playing online bingo everyday. Not only can you play bingo in an online bingo site but they also have extra games for you to enjoy too. Also getting in on the act are the many online casino who provide fun bingo games for you to play in their casinos. One of my favorite online casino bingo games is Pop Bingo which has a top jackpot prize of $1.000.000 now hows that for playing a game of bingo!
I donīt know about you but Iīm off for a game of online bingo, I hear there are plenty of ladies playing there. See you around.
