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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Start a Bingo Group

If you are looking to start a game group, consider getting a group of friends together for the Bingo Game, sort of a Bingo club. Other popular get together games are Bunko, Gin, or Poker. Those games require some concentration. The Bingo Game would allow for fun and fellowship without breaking the players’ concentration.

After all, the Bingo Game is a game of chance. Listening is important, but when it comes right down to it, whether a player wins or loses depends on the luck of the draw. Consider hosting the game meetings at your home, a community room, or alternate host sites among players.

If you are planning to start a Bingo Game “club,” consider these options:

1. Have each player bring a small gift, say in the $5 to $10 range. Let winners select a gift.
2. Play for food. Have each player bring a dozen cookies, a pie or cake, or some other favorite. Let the winners select their favorite goodie.
3. You’ll be tempted to play for money. Before doing so, check with your state to see if the Bingo Game is considered “gambling.” If so, certain prize restrictions will apply. You don’t want to break the law.
4. Play for charity. Sign your Bingo Game club up to participate in a charity event, like the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life. Ask area businesses to donate prizes for the event, or ask club members to donate special skills for crafts. Hold a big Bingo Game for the community, accepting donations to enter the facility or per card. Donate all the proceeds to the charity.

No matter what your purpose for starting up a Bingo Game club, you will be glad to see the results: a lot of fun, a way to make new friends, and an excuse to get together on a regular basis.

Friday, June 24, 2005

Three Eyed BINGO



With the invention of online bingo comes the notorious response, ‘What in the hell is Cyber Bingo, and how do I download a cup of coffee with an automatic dauber?’ And just when you learn how to click a mouse and LOL at somebody’s joke in your chat room, along comes three eyed bingo.

‘Three eyed bingo, now what in the hell is three eyed bingo?’ Don’t fear, online bingo players, three eyed bingo is not a new technological advancement that will make it even harder for you to upload your bingo winnings. It’s just a new way to play the
bingo you love on the Internet.

It doesn’t even have to be played as an online bingo game. The rules of the game can just as easily be used in your average bingo hall. All you need is three bingo cards, a caller and people willing to play.

The game starts with three bingo cards, but all three bingo cards are important to the game. It’s not a bingo game where each card has a chance to win. To win three eyed bingo you need to get a bingo on all three cards.

That’s the trick to this
bingo game. You need to match the given pattern on all three of your bingo cards before you can call out bingo, or click the bingo button on the screen. See, it’s not some sci-fi bingo game that involves Captain Kirk as the caller and floating green three eyed aliens as the main attraction. It’s just plain old bingo, except you have to get it on three cards.

Three eyed bingo is just one of the many new forms of our favorite game popping up on the Internet. It gives bingo a new twist, makes it a little bit more exciting and suspenseful. It’s fun enough waiting for one card to fill up, but imagine waiting for three bingo cards moving you closer to the win. Now that’s enough to make anybodies circuits get excited.

It may be a version of bingo that you already played at your bingo hall, or it may be something new. Whatever it is don’t be afraid of what’s to come from online bingo. In the end it’s all just bingo.

Monday, June 20, 2005

Bingo Exotic

Bingo Exotic

Bingo and exotic, two words you never thought you'd see together, have become partners, and it's all thanks to online bingo.

If you have a dirty mind you're probably imagining something right now, something having to do with topless bingo callers and a dirty set of bingo cards. Sure, the Internet has become synonymous with porno, so bingo exotic has to be about naked girls dancing around a bingo room, right? As entertaining as that may seem to some of you, your dirty mind couldn't be more wrong. This is bingo exotic, not bingo erotic. If you're looking for bingo erotic try Bango.

Bingo exotic has nothing to do with Internet porno. The exotic usually stands for the possible jackpots you can win in that bingo room. Exotic, as in a vacation to the Bahamas for getting a blackout in under 40 numbers. Not exotic as in a porn star bouncing across your bingo card naked every time the game starts. Exotic, as in online bingo with giant extravagant giveaways, like sports cars and speedboats. Not exotic as in a girl with giant breasts moaning whenever O-69 is called. Exotic, as in plain old bingo made interesting and new by have amazing giveaways as often as possible. Not exotic as in the game you love turned into strip bingo, where a computer generated image removes a piece of clothing while you fill up your bingo card.

The bingo you'll find online is the same bingo that you'd find in a bingo hall. Whether it's called exotic, or astro, or three eyed, it's still pretty much bingo. The bingo cards may be a little different, a little flashier, but the game is played the same. Numbers are called and daubed off your bingo card. The first person to match the given pattern gets a bingo and wins the prize.

Now's when the difference come in. If you're involved in an online bingo with a progressive jackpot, or an exotic bingo game with a vacation giveaway, and you get lucky we're not talking about a 20 dollar jackpot. We're talking about a week in Tahiti for playing bingo, or jackpots approaching a thousand dollars. That's what the exotic in exotic bingo stands for.

Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Beach Blanket Bingo




Beach Blanket Bingo

It's been a long time since I've seen it, but does the movie Beach Blanket Bingo have anything to do with bingo? I was searching the Internet the other day, trying to find a new online bingo website to try, when Beach Blanket Bingo popped into my search engine.

I think the funniest thing was that I had completely forgotten that Beach Blanket Bingo was a movie. The three words came to me and it just seemed like the perfect online bingo room. I went far enough to imagine how the bingo website would be designed. The main page had your choice of bingo card designs with a picture of a girl and a guy in bathing suits standing on a beach hugging or something. The choice of bingo card designs included an underwater theme, a surfing theme or a classic beach car theme. And inside the bingo room was great. Dick Dale or the Beach Boys would play softly over the bingo caller. The bingo caller would have a surfer boy voice and attitude. 'That's B-10 dude, like hang ten.' Of course the chat room would be the main focus of this bingo game. With screen names like BigKahuna238567 and SurferChic43721, the conversation would be about the waves, with the occasional reference to how the bingo game was turning out.

But when my search engine results came back there wasn't a bingo website in sight. Instead my brain was jogged with images of Annette and Frankie dancing the Beach Blanket Bingo. For a week straight whenever I would go online to play
bingo that stupid song would come into my head. You know, that bird song from Beach Blanket Bingo, 'The bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word.'

That's pretty much when I realized that I had bingo mania. When you take an old sixties surf movie and turn it into an online bingo room you know you have it. It's not a problem, this bingo mania, it's just the result of the online bingo explosion. If you think about, Beach Blanket Bingo is actually a good idea for a bingo website. You could have that stupid bird song playing, and Frankie and Annette can be the bingo callers. Maybe behind all the websites about the movie Beach Blanket Bingo there already is an online bingo website. You never know, with this bingo mania, it may come out tomorrow, and I'd be ready to play it.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Create memories with Bingo

The popularity of Bingo as a home game is undeniable, though it’s probably less so now than a few decades ago. If your family enjoys board games, or if you’ve been searching for a project that would entertain your kids while bringing their creative imaginings to the forefront, take a look at Bingo as a possibility.

Not only is Bingo a great game that almost anyone can learn to play, it’s also an incredible craft opportunity. Start with blank Bingo cards. You can get these from a hobby shop, Bingo supply center, online or you can make your own. One of the great things about Bingo is that the cards are simply grids of five squares by five squares. You can use a ruler to mark off your own grids. Card stock makes a great Bingo card, and it’s relatively inexpensive at most hobby shops, retail stores or office suppliers.
Once you have your grid, it’s time to decide what you want your cards to look like. Think all Bingo cards have to have BINGO across the top? Not really. If you’re working on a Valentine project, use the word HEART or LOVEU.

Not only that, but you don’t really have to have numbers in the squares on your Bingo grid. You can find inexpensive stickers at many retail stores. Just be sure the stickers are small enough that they can fit completely within the lines of the grid, then stick them on the grid at random. It’s probably a good idea to limit the columns where different pictures can be placed. For example, the footballs, daisies, peppermint sticks and Christmas trees must all be under the “B” column. If you’re playing with very young children, consider changing the grid from twenty-five squares to only a three-by-three grid for a total of nine squares.

Let your youngsters decorate their Bingo cards any way they want. Creativity is the key, and you’ll finish this particular project with a game (or two?) of Bingo.

Common Internet Bingo Scams

There are literally millions of hits when you type “Internet Bingo” into any of the more popular search engines. With all those potential sites offering Internet Bingo, how do you choose? There are some things you can look for, some things that will alert you to a potential scam and some ways you can help protect yourself.

First and most importantly, never give your credit card or bank account information to a site if you can’t verify that the site is a legitimate Internet Bingo site. One way to be safe is to look for the “big names” that you recognize, but you can also check out any new sites before you sign up and pay your dues. A legitimate Internet Bingo site should offer contact information that works. You should be able to telephone the numbers and get real people or at least a quick call back to a message, and you should be able to send an email and receive a reply that’s not an automated message within a reasonable time. Even if the registration fee is relatively small, you’re handing out your personal finance information and could be setting yourself up for a major scam. Take time to check out the site. A legitimate site will still be in operation tomorrow after you’ve made certain this isn’t a teenager scamming anyone who offers up credit card info.

Evaluate the offers and promises. If you’re playing Internet Bingo for free, don’t expect huge payouts in return. You may very well be “eligible to win,” but few really good jackpots are going to be offered up for nothing. Remember that the goal of a gaming website owner is to make a profit. With advertising and sponsors, they may be able to offer some cash and prizes to the winners, but it’s not likely to be big. Be wary of any Internet Bingo site that just sounds too good to be true – it probably is.

Online Bingo... Which to Play??

If you think every Online Bingo Game is the same, you obviously haven’t been looking at Bingo recently. Just as most games evolve over the years to become more challenging to those who play often, Bingo has come a long way over the last couple of decades. Just take a look at some of the Bingo games you’ll find online.

Traditional Bingo games in all its forms are available at a variety of websites. You can play an Online Bingo Game in its purest traditional form, looking to cover a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. Want to play a game that’s going to last a little longer? Try Cover Up. In this Online Bingo Game, you’ll be looking for all the numbers on your Bingo Card rather than just those in a single row.

Four Corners is another version you’ll find available as an Online Bingo Game. You’ll be looking for the numbers on the four corners of your Bingo card. Play so that you only get four draws, or choose a Four Corners game that allows you to play until someone covers their four corners.

Another Online Bingo Game is Six Pack or Postage Stamp. Six Pack requires that you match an adjoining set of six numbers in the shape of a six pack. Postage Stamp in the same principle, but with a set of four numbers.

In addition to these kinds of Online Bingo Games, you’ll also find some really new ideas that combine Bingo with video adventure or slot machines. Bingo Slots plays very much like a traditional one-armed bandit, except that you’re also given a Bingo card and each spin garners not only a chance to win with matching reels, but also gives you a Bingo number. You’ve essentially got two chances to win with this Online Bingo Game – at the slot machine or with the Bingo card. Just be careful that you don’t stand up and yell “Bingo” if your reels get you a win.