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16/02/07 - “canibelucky2” won  £1,500

09/02/07 - “NIKO5000” won  £2,500

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The game of BINGO has come a long way through the years.

While details of its origins are rather hazy, some attribute them to an Italian lottery called Lo Giuocco del Lotto d’Italia. From there it is said to have moved to America, where it underwent a certain amount of metamorphosis.

Traditionally, bingo is an interpersonal game where people gather at a local bingo hall, usually situated in a central location. It has always created an ideal environment for social interaction and relationship building with other people from the neighbourhood.

With the advent of online bingo the face of the game has been dramatically altered. No longer a ‘physical’ game, online bingo is more of a mental exercise played and experienced in the mind. There is no physical traveling to a venue, no paying out of bank notes and no hand-held cards filled in manually. Online, everything is done for you including filling in your bingo cards, and the money is handled electronically.

Some people reject online bingo as impersonal. Because the audience and hall is substituted by sound and graphics, people assume that there is no room for socializing. However, interpersonal interaction, while not face-to-face as with traditional bingo, is still an integral part of the game of Bingo. Chat rooms are full, 24 / 7, with players from around the world connecting. This makes your circle of bingo friends potentially enormous. Meeting with people from across the globe can also broaden your horizons, and you are no longer limited with the same handful of locals as you would have been in the local bingo hall. 

The other thing which hasn’t changed is the opportunity to win cash. But with online bingo you are often in line to win far larger jackpots than you were at the church hall on a Thursday night. Also, many online bingo sites also offer promotions with fantastic prizes – from cruises to state of the art household appliances.

The evolution of bingo from traditional to online has also added convenience and is great for individuals who are unable to leave home for health or location and safety problems. The elderly woman who is afraid to walk home from the bingo hall after dark, and the middle-aged man in a wheelchair who misses meeting his buddies and has hours of time to fill can both have fun, win money and meet people at online bingo sites.

Another facet of online bingo is the incorporation of instant games as well as numerous opportunities to win money. Free bingo games are also an advantage to the old bingo hall system, where you had to pay an entrance fee for every bingo game.

Many people still enjoy the traditional way of playing bingo, especially the fact that they have met and connected with their friends already and they find the pace of the game more adaptable. However, online bingo’s popularity and success show that it is here to stay and may even replace traditional bingo one day.

16 February - 18 February 2007 Winners

WEEKEND PROMO WINNERS
Congratulations to “77smudgie77“, “timaloy“, “2amj“, and “charlie13” who had the most bingos on the ‘LETTER M‘ pattern.

They each win a top-of-the-range Light-Up Mirror!!!!

WTG to our winners and keep an eye out for next weekend’s special promo!
 
 
BIG MONEY WINNERS
We’ve had so many big money winners over the last few days including the following:

“canibelucky2” won a MASSIVE £1,500 in Friday’s 1 Million Coverall.

“samantha69” won £1000 in Wednesday’s 1 Million Coverall.

“trotwood” won £350 in Wednesday’s 10K Coverall.

ZODIAC PROMOTION
Congratulations to the 30 roomies who each receive 5000 pts for shouting bingo on this week’s Zodiac number which was #73.

Slurp,tinky1971,ashleyben,canibelucky2,morgans6140,courtlands, shirley2222,coralbay,lunarluv48,scatty27111984,babybiggles
nikkyb,chanchez,Puss,ILIKEWINNING,shewbert2,chuck1949,lucy16,
jadeetoo,keely,thunderdragon,3meleks,lenny100,justkrystal,BINGO64,
marvelone,mommaof7,CLINT777,SHELLYG,terex15

LUCKY JAR
Playing bingo is such fun to do, now win the jar on #32. 

49 roomies each won 20,400pts for shouting bingo on #32:

Please make sure you check your balance to see if you were one of the lucky winners!

PLAYER OF THE WEEK
Every Monday our CM’s pick their player of the week, who receives 25,000 free points!

This weekend the lucky winner is “johnny5bellies“!!

Congratulations and good luck to all our roomies!

LOVE CASH
The ‘power of love’ is with us each weekend with 100,000 free points up for grabs to the player who has the most bingos on the special love pattern.

Congratulations to “2littleangels” who won 100,000 pts this weekend!!!

FREE CASH
This is the part where we give away 200,000 free points just for continuing to play bingo with us!!!

Congratulations to “canibelucky2” who collects 200,000 pts for playing the most games during the past weekend!!!

WTG!!!
 

SPOT THE CELEBRITY
Thank you for all your answers in this week’s Spot The Celeb competition. We asked:

Which UK Politician has recently refused to deny that he smoked cannabis when he was at school?

The answer was: David Cameron

Congratulations to “sensemelia”

who was drawn as the lucky winner and collects 25,000pts.

LOYALTY POINTS
Remember there are literally hundreds of thousands of free points to be given away every week!

It’s so easy…refer a friend and get 5000 pts…be in the chat rooms when chat games are taking place for your chance to win pts…and easiest of all, get free loyalty points simply for buying your bingo cards!!!