Although bingo is not as popular in Germany as in other European countries the Germans were the first to adapt the game of bingo for educational purposes. In Germany bingo was used to teach a wide variety of school subjects including math, foreign languages, grammar and many common school subjects. Bingo had a largely educational [...]

In both the US and Canada, charitable bingo organizations are feeling the pressure from competition by the casino industry. In Ontario Canada charitable bingo games have declined by two thirds and the number of charitable bingo games has plummeted. In the US charitable and church bingo games are also concerned by the rapid expansion of [...]

Many in the UK bingo industry are somewhat pessimistic and say that the bingo market in the UK is saturated with bingo sites and cannot absorb any more new bingo operations. Currently there are over 300 internet bingo sites serving the UK market alone. Recently it has been reported that some operators of internet bingo [...]

The game of bingo has been adapted for a variety of purposes, in both land based bingo and internet bingo. Bingo is commonly used to raise funds for charity and to teach various school subjects such as math, English, foreign languages, history and just about any subject taught in schools. There are also highly amusing [...]

If you go to a traditional bingo hall you have to play the games they are offering at any given moment and usually have no other options. A bingo hall can only accommodate so many games at one time. In the UK, New Zealand and Australia players at bingo clubs must purchase books of tickets [...]

Although bingo has grown rapidly in popularity in recent years, there are still, shockingly people who have never played the game out there. It may seem to many that bingo is an incredibly simple game that is the same in every bingo hall and on every internet bingo website the world over, but the truth [...]

Although there are many aspects of bingo that attract the millions of die-hard fans that flock to the nations bingo halls every day (the social aspect of the game, for instance, is often cited as many people’s favourite part of bingo) but if most bingo players are honest, it is surely the chance of winning [...]

At the last online bingo summit held in London in July one major topic of discussion was whether the UK internet bingo market is saturated with too many sites. Currently there are about 324 bingo sites targeting the UK market and about two to three new bingo sites are launched every week. For those that [...]

Way back in 1994 the tiny Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago passed the Free Trade & Processing act which enabled licenses to be granted to companies opening online casinos. The same year saw the founding of the first casino software provider, Microgaming, which is still in business today. Back then online casinos were an [...]

In the UK, there have been calls recently for more regulation of internet gambling sites. Many online gamblers are calling for new regulations after having been cheated by less than scrupulous gaming sites. One online poker site was ordered to pay millions to players and sports’ betting has also been in the news as unregulated [...]