21st Century Bingo
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by: Stebee
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If you were asked to think about bingo, your may picture images not to distant from rows of old ladies at an evening of charity bingo in the local church hall, dutifully stamping one of several bingo cards laid out before them.
In today's world however, bingo players are turning more and more to online bingo parlors to get their fix. They have literally hundreds of sites to choose from. Sites like partybingo.com, bingobilly.com, and cyberbingo.com operate 24 hours a day, and this has helped bring in thousands of new bingo players from all walks of life, who, in 2006 alone, played for over half a billion dollars!
Rather than using labeled balls, the element of chance in online bingo comes from a random number generator. Online bingo halls often offer other casino games as well. They also usually provide a chat program as well, so bingo-maniacs can chat away while they play.
In addition to online bingo sites, the very tech-savvy can play "Slingo" on 'Linden Labs' virtual world 'Second Life' which is an online world set up to allow players from all continents to gather and play new versions of the old classics, while unhindered by formal bans on gambling that Linden Labs put into place two years ago.
Over 90% of new bingo players are under the age of fifty, which is laying the foundation for greater popularity (and profits) in the coming years. In fact, a British survey found that bingo was the number one leisure activity for women from the ages of 20-25. Bingo's popularity amongst women in this survey was no fluke as the vast majority of new bingo players are women, opening up new avenues for advertisers eager to reach women, especially the younger ones.
Despite the explosion of popularity in online bingo, the bingo you grew up with is still going very strong regardless of challenges like the public smoking ban.
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Indeed, despite throngs of people playing online bingo, 99% of bingo games played are done by hand and not by computers. Whether or not this is indicative of traditional bingo's superiority, online bingo's potential to succeed is prevailing. One thing is for sure though, bingo is not going away.
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