Like any multi-player gaming forum, all of the payers are competing against one another. But online bingo communities tend to be more close knit. Players are genuinely happy for the other players who win, even though they did not win themselves. Maybe its the cheap ticket prices, or knowing the elation that comes with finally winning your first bingo game, but the chats are so congenial, it’s noting like the traditional online chat room.

Rarely will you find a disrespectful chatter in the online bingo community. Bingo fans in general are light-hearted, jovial people. If, by chance, a less desirable type does begin speaking rudely or obscenely in the bingo chat, you can rest assured the Chat Moderator (CM) will immediately take care of it. The offensive member will be warned that his or her behavior is not acceptable, and if the attitude persists, the user will be removed from the bingo chat without further notice.

CMs are hired to watch over all of the bingo chats while games are taking place. There job is to keep the atmosphere positive, as well as host exciting bingo chat games. These games also help maintain a supportive bingo community, while doling out extra bingo bucks and other rewards to the players for participating and winning the chat games.

To learn more about these games and rewards, visit our follow-up page: Bingo Chat Games

The online bingo community is like one big family. For regular players, they see each other on a consistent, if not daily basis, becoming more than just acquaintances, but real friends. They are there to have a great time, playing together, laughing together, celebrating together.

So the next time you find yourself looking for a new online bingo room to join, don’t just go by the biggest bonuses, or the vibrancy of the graphics and look for a large, well populated site with a real online bingo community. Win or lose, you can rest assured you will have honestly have a more fulfilling, entertaining experience overall.

If you’re trying to choose a bingo room, please read the following tips that will help you make the best decision to suit your needs.

Choosing a Bingo Room and Regional Player Acceptance

The first thing you need to look for is whether you’ll be allowed to play for real money at the online bingo room. For many players, including UK and European residents, this is rarely an issue. For USA residents, it becomes crucial. Some online bingo rooms will display the flags of all accepted countries, while others hide this info in the terms and conditions.

Another way to find this info is by visiting the Cashier/Banking page. Look for the list of deposit methods, and see if the page says anything about USA deposit methods, or USA players restricted. If you’re still not sure, check out our Online Bingo Reviews for “US Players Accepted”.

Choosing an Online Bingo Room and Game Variety

the game variety is very important, since you may or may not know how to play some of the online bingo games. European players aren’t as experienced with 75-Ball bingo, while USA players may not know how to play 90-Ball Bingo. You may wish to find a room with both versions, or even 80-Ball Bingo, to expand your overall experience.

Also consider other games you may wish to play. Most online bingo rooms offer side games, including casino slots and table games, scratch cards and others. You can also play bingo chat games to win extra rewards, such as free bingo cards/tickets.

Choosing an Online Bingo Room and Bonuses

Every online bingo room offers incentives for new players to sign up. These include No-Deposit Bonuses and/or Deposit Match Bonuses. Existing players can often take advantage of subsequent deposit bonuses, as well.

We do not recommend choosing a bingo room based solely on the value of its bonus offers. However, a hefty bonus is always appreciated, and should be considered.

No-Deposit bonuses are those that give new players a chance to play the bingo games for real money (and real cash prizes) without making an initial deposit. Deposit Match Bonuses are percentage-based bonuses that award players an extra chunk of cash based on their first deposit amount.

Note that all bingo bonuses come with terms and conditions. You won’t be able to simply withdrawal the bonus cash. You’ll have to use the bonus to play games, and won’t be able to withdrawal until you spent the bonus, or played through your deposit + bonus amount enough times. Be sure to read over the bonus terms before claiming a bonus.

Choosing a Bingo Room and Security & Integrity

An online bingo room’s reputation goes a long way. Choosing a bingo room with longevity is important, because they will have developed a reputation over time. If the online bingo room does not pay players in a timely fashion, does not keep their info secure, or does not have good customer support, we’ll know about it. You can find this info simply by searching for user-reviews, where actual members have written about their personal experiences, good or bad (or just read our Online Bingo Reviews and we only deal with reputable sites, and if they’re not reputable, we’ll tell you about it!)

Online bingo rooms should be licensed and regulated by a viable authority. The most common, trusted regulating countries are Alderney, Gibraltar, Kahnawake, Curacao / Netherlands Antilles, Malta, the UK, the Isle of Man and Costa Rica. Look at the bottom of the bingo room’s main page for licensing info. If you can’t find it, try their About Us page. If you still don’t find it, leave.

Choosing a Bingo Room and Payment Methods

What is the point of joining an online bingo room if you can’t get your funds in and out of your account. You must ensure that there are viable payment methods for both deposits and withdrawal. If you plan to use American Express, but they only accept Visa and MasterCard, you’ll have to find an online payment processor. If you’re in the US, there must be an online payment processor that handles US online gambling transfers, such as eWalletXpress, UseMyWallet and QuickTender.

Once you confirm that you can deposit, also be sure that you’ll be able to withdrawal. While this isn’t a problem for most online bingo players, again US residents may find issues. The number one withdrawal method for US payers is a Check by Mail or Courier. If the online bingo room offers Check withdrawals and as slow as they may be you’re in good shape.

How to Play Bingo Chat Games

All you need to do to play bingo chat games is participate in the online bingo action. So long as you are presently participating in the bingo game, you are eligible to win bingo chat games.

The Chat Moderator (CM) will host the bingo chat games, announcing which game is being played, and the general rules. If you are first to answer the most questions correctly (in trivia style games), choose the right numbers (in lottery style games), or just happen to be in the right position on the chat menu at the right time, you will be declared the winner.

Bingo Bucks & Other Rewards

Most online bingo sites award Bingo Bucks (BB) to the winners of bingo chat games. They may go by a different name, but they are generally the same. BB can be used to purchase more online bingo cards/ticket, or can be redeemed for cash.

Some online bingo rooms will award Loyalty Points (LP) for winning bingo chat games. These bingo sites use LP to determine a players VIP level, doling out extra perks and bonuses to players with enough LP. LP can usually be used like BB as well, to purchase more tickets and convert to real cash.

A few online bingo rooms don’t bother with BB and LP, instead honoring bingo chat game winners with 10 free cards/tickets to the next upcoming bingo game. While less versatile, these are still a valuable reason to participate in bingo chat games.

Types of Bingo Chat Games

There are so many types of bingo chat games played at different online bingo rooms, we simply can’t list them all. However, they do tend to fall into general categories.

Trivia Style Game: These are bingo chat games where the CM asks a series of themed questions, and the chatters race to be the first to answer correctly. The player who answers the most questions right will win the prize. Themes can range anywhere from celebrity news to historical facts.

Lottery Style Games: These bingo chat games are based on the numbers being called in the current online bingo game. Players may be asked to select a number before the game begins, and if your number is the last called before a player wins bingo, you win the prize. If no one’s number is called last, it may be the last chosen number called that wins. There are many ways to play lottery style bingo chat games!

Chat-Based Games: These bingo chat games are based on the chatter who speaks in a certain position at the time that bingo is called, or that a specific number is called. For instance, if the number is 15, the player to speak immediately before 15 is called, or immediately after, or even the second before or after, may be the winner. It all depends on the rules of the game, so pay close attention to the rules!

Many of the games at Tasty Bingo will be progressive jackpot bingo games. Their 75 ball progressive jackpot bingo games are deliciously called Choc Sundae games while their 90 ball bingo games have the yummy name Banana Splits.

Tasty Bingo is already live, though the official VIP launch part won’t happen until March 24, so you still have time to be a part of it. Any players living in London can actually be there in person, down at Haymarket, with Tasty Bingo drawing names of new members at random to give away prize packages of three tickets each to the VIP Tasty Bingo launch party. Plenty of bonus prizes will be on hand for players who show up there at the Tasty Bingo VIP party live too, as well as for players participating in the official opening of Tasty Bingo’s refrigerator doors.

In the meantime, whet your appetite with Tasty Bingo’s free £10 cash gifts, wine, and chocolates in their currently running As-Seen-On-TV advert. All new Tasty Bingo players are being given a 100% match welcome bonus with a 50% reload bonus.

Another bonus for players at the newly launched Tasty Bingo is 2,000 bonus points in their rewards program account by signing up as a friend on the Tasty Bingo Facebook page. There’s an additional referral bonus as well.

Between March 17 and April 5 at Wink Bingo, players will have the opportunity to win actual cash money for absolutely no cost to them.

You can win as much as £1,000 each day, starting with a £300 cash prize that you can win during any day in the promotion at 8:45 pm. A 1-line winner gets £50, a 2-line winner gets £100, and a winner with a full house gets £150.

Another Easter bonus gives away £700 per day, following the £300 game each day during the promotion at 9:45 pm. These are at all the 90 ball games, where 1-line winners get £150, 2-line winners get £200, and a winner with a full house gets £150.

And both of these games are completely free to enter. Just look for the Free tab and Easy tab at Wink Bingo for further details.

Just search for your Wink Bingo lucky Easter Egg and if you find it, you’re a winner.

Wink Bingo is always chock full of bonus cash prizes and promotions. They just finished off another Winktastic Weekend, following the week-long Sex on the Beach promotion involving the Sands of Fortune instant game and the Pina Colada pattern on the call number 21. And that’s appropriate for Wink Bingo, being it’s online bingo’s naughtiest site.

Mother’s Day (in the UK, at least) is next weekened, Sunday, March 14, and at least three top online bingo sites—Bingo Fabulous, Harry’s Bingo, and Champagne Bingo—are all holding promotions with big mother’s day bonuses up for grabs.

The Bingo Fabulous mother’s day promotion started on Friday, March 5 and runs through March 10, just in time for mum’s big day. The first ten players to spell the M-U-M pattern in a Bingo Fabulous bingo game win luxury pamper gifts sets that include moisturizing shower gel, bubble bath, body lotion, and more.

Meanwhile, for the entire month of March, 2010, over at Harry’s Bingo, you can win major bonuses by completing the special “Spring Flower” bingo pattern. Do so and one of the following bonuses could be yours: £2 for every two patterns, £8 for every five patterns, £15 for every ten patterns, £40 for every twenty-five patterns, £85 for every fifty patterns, and £150 for every one-hundred patterns. And all of these bonuses are cash.

And ovet at Champagne Bingo, the site is giving ten of its players Luxury Pampering Toiletries gift sets. Each kit includes body lotion, massaging soap bar, moisturizing shower gel, bath salts, bubble bath, and more. Give them to your mum or keep them for yourself. Plus Champagne Bingo is giving away two “Just My Cup of Tea” gift hampers that include an afternoon tea caddy, a mug, strawberry and apricot jam, fudge, macaroons, and more.

All of it, perfect mother’s day gifts for your favorite online bingo sites.

All you have to do to claim this £20 bonus is deposit at least £5 into your new Ladbrokes Bingo account and then spend that £5 on bingo tickets. As soon as that’s done, Ladbrokes Bingo will immediately and automatically deposit your £20 into your account, for you to spend on bingo tickets as you see fit.

That’s not the only free money Ladbrokes Bingo is offering players, and new players aren’t the only ones able to enjoy the site’s generosity. All site members, new and old, can play free bingo at Ladbrokes Bingo during the following time blocks, daily:

11 am and 1 pm
5 pm and 6 pm
8 pm and 10 pm

And let’s not forget, there are always penny bingo games running at Ladbrokes Bingo, which is just like it sounds—each bingo ticket in the game costs only a penny.

So if you’re not yet a player at Ladbrokes Bingo, start off by claiming your free £20 bonus (essentially a 400% match bonus on your initial £5 deposit), and then be sure to sit in at the site’s free bingo games, 4 hours of free bingo daily, and in between all that fun and excitement, you can enjoy Ladbrokes Bingo’s penny bingo games.

Now the offerings in the Mecca Bingo lobby include close to 100 bingo ball games and shutter board style 80-ball bingo, plus speed bingo too, as well as pattern and line 75-ball. What’s more, Mecca Bingo is now also offering a slew of games unique to the site, including multiplayer slot machines and a great card game called Joker Jackpot.

Players launching the new Mecca Bingo software will notice a few features that weren’t there before, including the choice of showing or hiding the gride showing the numbers already called, as well as the choice of zooming in or out on your bingo tickets for clearer and easier reading.

Upon entering one of the site’s bingo rooms, you’ll now notice a chat window taking up the left portion of the screen listed underneath a listing of side games. Everything to the right of this sidebar is taken up by the actual bingo game being played, including additional tickets for sale and a display of the current prize purse at stake.

And in case the word “again” in the opening sentence to this post had you confused, let us remind you of Mecca Bingo’s other recent appearance in the blogosphere, and that is for its new Mecca Bingo Daily £10,000, now just over 1 week old. In this amazing deal involving Mecca Bingo’s most popular style of bingo games, the site is giving a £10,000 bonus awarded to one 90-ball bingo player every day up through Saturday, March 13, making a total promotional prize purse of £160,000.

Tickets at Mecca Bingo start as small as 1 and 2 p.

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The new Mecca Bingo promotion is structured as a daily jackpot, with one lucky player each day awarded the £10,000 jackpot each day. What’s more, Mecca Bingo jackpots are often about sharing the wealth, and this one is no different. Because not only will the player striking the daily jackpot win £10,000, but all the players competing in that 90 Ball Bingo room will also get to split a £1,000 community fund.

In order to be eligible to win the daily £10,000 you need only play in any of Mecca Bingo’s 90 Ball Bingo games. Throughout the games, MeccaBingo will spice up the action by helping players to complete a full house and increasing the ball count every day after 12 noon.

This is the latest in Mecca Bingo’s string of Lucky Pink Box promotions, which has already been responsible, just this past January, for making at least one player, Nannyb in London, England, £20,000 richer. In all that month, MeccaBingo gave away £86,000 in bingo jackpots. And just finishing up last Sunday, February 28, was MeccaBingo’s Clover Rollover Jackpot promotion with a $1.4 million jackpot to be won.

The £160,000 Over 16 Days promotion at Mecca Bingo runs through March 13. New players signing up at MeccaBingo will receive a £50 FREE PLAY welcome bonus.

In its daily big game, Sky Bingo is giving players the opportunity to turn 10p into £1,000 each and every day they play. Sky Bingo’s big game runs Monday through Friday at 10 pm every week. You can pre-purchase your tickets for the big £1K guaranteed Sky Bingo game at any time during the day.

After the daily 10 pm £1,000 guaranteed bingo game is a £4,000 guaranteed Linx Game at 10:30 with a 50p per ticket cost.

What’s more, on Wednesdays, Sky Bingo offers, on top of its daily £1,000 guaranteed jackpot, there’s also £11,000 in prize money guaranteed to be awarded, made up of the more than £3,500 in guaranteed prizes and the Linx game with its £6,500 guarantee.

The Linx game takes place at 6 pm on Wednesdays and gives players the opportunity to win up to £2, 5000. Then, from 6:30 – 9:30 pm, players have the chance to win £500 seven times over at the guaranteed prize pool games.

Tickets for these games are only 25p. To play, go to the Sky Bingo Premium room or Value rooms.

The biggest game of all, however, is the Sky Bingo Clover Rollover Jackpot, with the possibility of winning more than £1M. Minimum bet to be eligible to win the £1,000,000 jackpot is £1. Anytime it’s won, the progressive jackpot is reset back to its starting amount of £100,000.