Online Bingo is one of the products of modern technology, that allows us to play bingo online from almost any location, with a variety of different methods. However some are concerned that technology takes away some of the ‘spirit’ of bingo. So we’re going to examine some of the advantages of online bingo over traditional bingo halls.

Online bingo websites offer several types of bingo games, and usually an additional collection of side games, including instant win games such as scratchcards, slot games with progressive jackpots, plus virtual casino games too. You get most of this in a bingo hall too, but you have to use your legs to get from A to B (so not good for couch potatoes). Traditional casinos offer many casino games including slot machines, but bingo is rarely to be found at these clubs.

One of the biggest advantages of playing bingo online is that with a mere click of the mouse you can choose from several bingo rooms in which to play either 75 or 90 ball bingo. Many sites also offer 80 ball bingo and speed bingo, offering a different slant on the game and increasing player choice.

Every online bingo room features a different jackpot, and some rooms offer progressive jackpots at certain times of the day. You can actually play bingo online at a faster rate than you would for the same time in a traditional bingo hall, due to the bigger selection of games and also the faster speed, with new bingo games starting every few minutes. Online bingo websites are also able to quickly update their bingo and slot games, so you’ll find a much wider variety of the latest games appearing online much faster than they would in a regular bingo hall.

For those people who say the bingo community has suffered as a result of the online bingo fad, I just say Tosh! I’m constantly amazed at the huge amount of friendly bingo buddies I have online who I love to chat with and have a good old goss – ok so you get the odd rude fella (or gal) but they get kicked off pretty quick – another advantage!

The sheer convenience offered by bingo online as opposed to bingo halls cannot be faulted. Nowadays you can play from home, from work, on your laptop while you watch the TV or even score a full house bingo on your mobile phone while on the move. Technology has given the game of bingo a brand new life, and brought with it a brand new fanbase of bingo fans, young and old, that appreciate the easy access, cash bonuses and incentives, and ever innovative bingo promotions with some absolutely wild prizes and jackpots.

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – the number one resource in the UK for the best bingo online and the coolest bingo promotions.

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.

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.

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – the UK’s top resource for all things online bingo and with the best bingo promotions.

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.

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – the top resource in the UK for online bingo promotions and the best free bingo games.

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!

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – the UK’s top resource for all things online bingo and the best bingo promotions.

Gala Bingo started way back in time, providing bingo halls in small towns all over the UK for bingo fans to get together and play for comparatively small prizes. Nowadays the wins are much bigger, even networked games across the British nation, and they also have an online bingo website in keeping with the bingo online craze that’s swept across the UK the last few years.

Last week saw a huge bingo jackpot payout in a Gala Bingo hall in Scunthorpe to practically the whole town, confirming that sometimes nothing in the world can beat a good old fashioned game of bingo down the local hall.

Not only did a lucky lady scoop the bingo jackpot with almost £195k, but the remaining national prize pool for the networked game of £194k was shared out among the other 73 bingo players in the hall that night – about £2500 each!

Gala Bingo literally just paid out a whole town of bingo players! What a sight for sore eyes that must have been. I’m trying to imagine what it must have felt like, such an overload of happiness and joy on so many people at one time, words fail me. All I can think of is hot cupcakes!

At times like this, traditional bingo in good old bingo halls absolutely rocks the socks off online bingo – with knobs on!

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – providing all the latest online bingo promotions and the best free bingo games.

Wink Bingo fulfils so many of my expectations when it comes to online bingo, I don’t know where to start. I’ve played at countless bingo sites in my time, so have a fair idea of what’s good and what’s not when it comes to playing bingo online.

I have a special list, unceremoniously called the Keep ‘em and Play ‘em list, on which Wink Bingo takes top place. There’s only a few bingo sites on this list, more about these another time. But the criteria must always be fulfilled or they’re unceremoniously booted off my top bingo list.

I’ve got no patience for online bingo websites that promise and don’t fulfil. Bingo has to be fun, and sites that spoil this for me never get on my best bingo list. I’m talking bingo basics here, like waiting days for an answer from the bingo support team, or waiting weeks for your bingo winnings to be cashed out – especially if you hit a biggie.

Wink Bingo more than fulfils the criteria on the bingo basics, and much more beyond – top games, top bingo jackpots and a fabulous community of totally mad bingo crazy fans. This buzzing community at Wink Bingo is something I really look forward to and enjoy, it adds an extra level of fun to my online bingo antics that I just can’t do without. My thanks to the folks at Wink Bingo for being top of my list!

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – where you’ll find the choicest online bingo promotions at top UK bingo sites.

I know this is supposed to be a bingo blog, all about online bingo fun and excitement, well it usually is, but I’ve caught a bug – the Scratchcard bug – and it’s got me by the short and curlies cos I’m scratching like there’s no tomorrow! (Please excuse my language, ladies!)

Anyway, Saturday mornings I’m usually down the local shop buying my lottery tickets and the odd Scratchcard or two, I think the most I ever won was £14 and that was a good few years back. I never thought I’d have fun playing Scratchcards online, but I proved myself wrong – again!

I signed up with Prime Scratch Cards to take advantage of their £5 Free offer, and boy oh boy did it open up a whole new world of fun! I’ve been scratching non-stop all weekend, and what’s amazing is that you can win up to a mind-boggling £200,000 in one scratch!

These Scratchcard games are pretty cool, and much better than the usual ones you get offered on the side while you play bingo. A nice range of themes from sports to fantasy, and really quick and fun to play. You can still do your online bingo thing in another window, but I’d deffo recommend trying these folks out, and you’ll get the Scratchcard bug too!

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – the UK’s number one resource for online bingo and top bingo promotions.

It’s all happening at Paddy Power Bingo today – their Gold Bingo room is now officially 2 years old – who would have thought it! I was quite surprised to hear the news as I had no idea that these guys had been in the online bingo game for that long. Obviously my bingo blinkers need a good clean!

Seriously, Paddy Power Bingo, though not a fast starter, has been in the game now for a while. This Irish (and proud of it) bingo website has been quietly providing online bingo games to an ever-growing base of bingo fans, with their hard work paying off big-time now as Paddy Power becomes more associated with the term Bingo.

I doubt it’s their major breadwinner, as they have focused for years primarily on sportsbetting, however you can’t deny the ever-increasing mass of online bingo crazy fans in the UK and Ireland that are fast warming to this online bingo site.

If you’re not otherwise booked from 8pm tonight, you might think about popping in for some free bingo games at Paddy Power Bingo, plus there’s loads of free pressies and a couple of hot guaranteed jackpots tonight for bingo roomies – £500 a shot!

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – the top resource in the UK for bingo online and the best free bingo games.

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?!

Written by John Witherspoon for BingoStreet.com – the UK’s number one resource for online bingo and with the best bingo promotions.