Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a swine flu pandemic. The pandemic warning means that the WHO considers the spread of swine flu to be unstoppable. The WHO has issued non pharma measures that can be taken to slow the spread of the virus. In Mexico many bingo halls have been closed to [...]

In the UK the offices of PriceWaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. have reported that the online gaming industry, which includes online bingo, is outperforming any other leisure industry during the current global recession. The report states that online gaming revenues declined 5% last year a much smaller decline than that suffered by other leisure oriented industries. PriceWaterhouseCoopers [...]

Bingo is a game played by people irrespective of their age, country and class. You do not need to be rich to play the game of bingo. Bingo can be played by anyone either by visiting a traditional bingo hall or by joining an online bingo site. Initially bingo was possible only at bingo halls, [...]

Bingo machines are like improvised slot machines that play bingo. In some countries slot machines are prohibited, but all forms of bingo are permitted. Casinos have tried to cash on this trend by inventing bingo machines. The bingo machines function very similarly to the slot machines. Both need tokens to be inserted to spin the [...]

Who knew that a charity bingo game could stir up so much trouble? The recent lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen has received extensive coverage in the mainstream press, blogs, and online bingo portals. The lawsuit stems from an incident where Cohen showed up at a charity bingo game in Palmdale California as ‘Bruno’ one of [...]

In the US Native American reservations have traditionally been poverty stricken. Usually located in rural areas with few chances for living wage employment, reservations were all but forgotten until recent times. Court decisions in the late 80’s allowed gaming on reservations and many tribes took advantage of the decisions and established casinos. Many of these [...]

The recent lawsuit filed against British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has been receiving extensive coverage in the media and also by online bingo portals. Cohen is best known for his colorful characters like ‘Borat’, a Kazakh journalist, ‘Ali G’, a hip hop interviewer, and ‘Bruno’, an outrageously gay character with an Austrian accent. Cohen is [...]

Bingo has been used as a fundraising tool by charitable organizations for decades. In the past few years traditional bingo halls have seen a large drop in attendance usually caused by various state indoor smoking bans. Despite the obstacles bingo halls face they continue to raise money for charitable organizations, churches, veteran’s organizations, and other [...]

According to Wikipedia the three top countries for bingo are the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom in that order. Popular perception has the UK in first place with the United States second but this is not the case. Bingo became popular in Japan during the great depression of the 1930’s. In Japan bingo [...]

The Canadian Gaming Association reports that gambling, including online bingo, is a very popular activity in Canada and also provides employment for a large number of Canadian citizens. The gaming industry in Canada accounts for 267,000 jobs with 137,000 of those jobs directly connected with gaming. According to the report issued by the organization the [...]