The popularity of Bingo games remain as usual as it remains during the earlier times at 1600s. In United Kingdom, game of Bingo has become one of the classic games in few decades and in fact becomes a huge part of the social life of UK for many years. The popularity of Bingo games have increased so much that this resulted in the establishment of commercial Bingo halls in UK on the basis of Betting and Gaming Act of 1960.
During the modern times, Bingo game is played by using cards and tickets containing numbers on the grid. A typical ticket of Bingo game will have 27 spaces, which are arranged in 9 columns and 3 rows. Now, the caller will preside over the game, who will call out the numbers that are drawn in a random manner. As the numbers are called, players will check for the numbers on their Bingo tickets. If any number matches, they will mark it. now, if any player marks off all the numbers that are required for wining prize in the Bingo game, the player will shout by saying “Bingo!” so that the caller can easily check the numbers and give the winning prize to that player.
Online Bingo is the variant of Bingo game, which is played by the help of internet. With the growth of new millennium along with availability of very high speed of broadband, the game of Online Bingo has also becomes one of the cultural phenomenon among the worldwide players. The Online Bingo variant was introduced in the year 1996. The websites responsible for providing online bingo games use RNGs for players. Some online bingo operators allow the players to download free software for playing the games while some others incorporate technologies that help the players to play the online Bingo games instantly after registering an account with their sites. The popularity of Bingo games is mostly in the countries of America, Japan and United Kingdom, among which UK has the third largest market of Online Bingo all over the world. Although United Kingdom is having their third largest market for Online Bingo game worldwide, but the market is growing at the fastest possible rate among any other markets of the world. According to the estimates done for online bingo sites, this is being highlighted that more than 600 million pounds were spend annually by UK people for Online Bingo tickets. Online marketers have seen the potential for explosive growth for the number of people playing Online Bingo game and have identified Online Bingo as one of the profitable business opportunity. At present, there are more than 250 Bingo websites available for the exciting UK Bingo players.
Reason for Popularity of Online Bingo Game in UK
There exist many reasons for increasing popularity of Online Bingo among the UK players. First, the players of only Bingo can access the game conveniently and immediately from their homes are great reasons for increasing its popularity in UK. Another reason was that the websites providing Online Bingo games use to function more or less similar to the social networking sites, so people can also enjoy socializing and affiliating with other people, who are outside of their social network along with playing the game of Bingo there. Online Bingo games can give comparatively more mental stimulation as compared to the traditional bingo halls. This reason of popularity of Online Bingo games hold very strong particularly among the youngsters, who have grown in the information age. Lastly, material incentive and monetary related with prize winnings is also one of the big reasons for popularity of bingo games in UK.