Friday, September 30, 2011

How Online Bingo Varies from Offline Bingo

By Johnny Smithwick


Bingo is a very popular game. It is, in fact, one of the favourite pastimes among people in the UK and has been for almost half a century. The arrival of online bingo has caused the fan base to grow to an international scale. A lot of sites devoted solely to the game are available at the moment and players can pick from pay-to-play version, no deposit or free bingo.

The fact remains that over 15 years after internet bingo first made its entrance; there are some fanatics who are still wary of making the transition to the online adaptation. This article will shed light on a few of the features that you are likely to encounter at a web-based bingo hall. This article just discusses the more typical features of bingo halls on the internet.

Auto-daub is one of the most important features of bingo halls on the web. The purpose of the auto-daub is straightforward; marking out the called numbers for you instead of you having to do it yourself. One of the benefits of using the auto-daub tool is that you can buy as many as 20 cards and when a number is called, the auto-daub option finds and marks the number simultaneously in all cards which have the number, if there are any. This saves you the trouble of having to go through all the cards by hand and perhaps missing a number.

The chat feature is almost certainly the most prominent feature in online bingo and adds a new dimension to the game. In a land-based bingo hall, your sphere of interaction is limited to the people surrounding you, and many bingo halls don't encourage a lot of talking either. On the other hand, the chat feature in a web-based bingo game enables you to interact with people from different parts of the planet. The site actually encourages interaction between players and building of social circles.

This is an additional feature that gives internet bingo halls an advantage. Most land based halls run only during a particular time and rarely run late into the night. But halls online, be it at pay-to-play sites, no deposit bingo or free bingo sites, operate on a 24/7 basis. This means you can play the game at any time you would like. In case of any technical problems that you may come across, many of the sites have dedicated customer service centres that give ready assistance to your problems.

An additional feature that sets online bingo apart is that it can make the site look very attractive using eye-catching graphics; making bingo exciting. Many of the graphics in these sites are very often created by leading designers of gaming software. In short, the experience that you get from playing online is extremely different from what you get when you play it at your local church, charity event or bingo hall.




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