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Bingo Games And How They Evolved
Bingo, the popular online game which is a rage all over the world, originated in the fifteenth century as a game played with wooden planks and beans, and it was indeed difficult at that time to visualize the technological revolution which has made online bingo games the high-tech entertainment it is today, being played in millions of homes.
Bingo’s journey from Italy
Bingo originated in the fifteenth century in Italy where it was played as a weekly lottery game. It became massively popular by the end of the fifteenth century and caught up in France. The bingo games had an innate ability to capture people’s attention, and it became a carnival game in Germany, from where it traveled to American, known as Beano.
Bingo came to America as a tent game played in carnivals, and it was known as Beano. Edwin S Lowe, the founder of the modern bingo, saw it being played in 1929 in a carnival in Atlanta. Lowe played the game with his friend and realized it had huge potential to become universally popular.
Pretty soon, bingo spread far and wide in America, and then the bingo games started being played in the UK, Mexico, Asia, Canada and Australia.
Charity game
After its birth when the bingo games were quickly spreading as a family game, a catholic priest in the nineteenth century thought of organizing charity bingo to collect funds for the church.
This experiment was a major success and by 1934, a large part of the church community was organizing charity bingo games, and more then 10,000 weekly bingo games were getting organized.
Bingo halls
Bingo became not only a family game but also a party game and a popular source of entertainment in gatherings, and the growing craze for bingo games, with its social benefits, started attracting businessmen who planned to open special places where bingo games could be played.
Bingo Halls became the big thing; separate areas were demarcated for the bingo players and traditional bingo games with cardboard were played.
Variations
While bingo became more popular, people discovered new variations with different winning patterns and number cards. Different countries started using different bingo games versions; 75 ball bingo gripped America while 90 ball bingo swept through the UK, Australia and Asia.
Online Bingo
The traditional classic board bingo has emerged in its newest and universally popular avatar as online bingo, offering outstanding bonuses to the players and attracting them like magnet.
Mobile Bingo
Just a few years ago bingo was restricted to smoky bingo halls, seaside arcades and social clubs and had what can only be described as an aged image. During the last couple of years in the UK bingo has exploded online and has become the biggest form of online gambling in the UK. Helped by the smoking ban, which in effect bans smoking in enclosed areas throughout the UK and perhaps even helped more so by the credit crunch. Many ardent live bingo players have now switched their play to the internet. In real terms you can now play bingo online for just a few pennies against thousands of players for healthy jackpots which works out much cheaper than travelling to playing live.
But the rise of bingo continues and not only can you play online anytime, now with the big bingo sites launching mobile bingo you can now play on your phone anywhere! We are in the early days of mobile gambling but already bingo seems to be one of the major types of gambling that seems will do very well as the mobile gambling revolution take holds. Mecca and Foxy are the first to test the mobile gambling market but expect most of the other leader operators to follow during 2009.
Many may ask how does mobile bingo work and how do you play bingo on your phone? Well as with online bingo you dont require any I.T. expertise as with most sites you simply sign up, enter your mobile phone number and the software is sent direct to your phone. You also have the option to download the software to your computer and transfer it to your phone by Bluetooth or USB.
A great benefit of mobile bingo is that bingo sites will need to tempt you too sign up to their mobile services and you can guarantee this will come in the form of free cash. UK companies have spent millions with free cash offers to tempt players to play online. These offers during the last few months seemed to have been withdrawn on many sites simply because these offers have done the job. Its back to square one with mobile bingo though and Mecca has already launched a free cash offer for new sign ups.
The slots and general money games available on all the online bingo sites are also available on mobile bingo but at the moment not all of them. Expect to see more of these added during the year and mobile specific games. Please remember though that you cant play online bingo on every mobile phone so you must first check the system requirements of the individual bingo site. As a general rule though if you can browse the internet on your phone and play basic internet games then you should not have a problem running the mobile bingo client. The best phone of course for mobile bingo is the Iphone!
So dont expect the rise of bingo to diminish during 2009 as the growth of mobile gaming will push bingo to even great heights!