GETTING STARTED - Most Online Bingo sites make it extremely easy for you to sign up. Some will require you to input your credit/debit card details and make a 'deposit' before playing bingo, although
LittlewoodsBingo.com will give you £1 free to try before you buy, and
Bingo Boogie offers free bingo to win High Street Vouchers. Always check you are on a secure page before typing in your details - look for the closed padlock.
100% CASH MATCH - Most online bingo sites will offer some incentives to sign up and the majority offer a 100% cash match - they will match your first deposit from £10 to £250 -
CROWN BINGO OFFER £250 (October 2006).
If it's your first time shop around.
BINGO POINTS - Collect extra points or 'bonus' when you play can be used to buy bingo cards or, sometimes, prizes
TRADITIONAL 90 BALL BINGO - this is same bingo game played in the traditional bingo halls - 15 random numbers, between 1 and 90, printed on 'tickets' of 3 x 9 rows. You can buy as many single tickets as you want. Bingo games can consist of the usual first to get 1 row, then 2 rows and then the full house.
AMERICAN 75 BALL BINGO - played on a 5 x 5 card and the games can vary from a single line to a complicated themed pattern
CHAT AND PLAY - all the bingo sites have online chat rooms - you can choose to turn these off, if you just want to play bingo in peace - and you can chat to your hearts content as the bingo numbers are being called.
BingoBoogie has the full list of 'bingo lingo'
chat rooms are hosted by
CM's - Chat Monitors - who welcome and congratulate winning players and try to create a friendly and communal atmosphere. They also host fun chat games between the 'real' bingo games.
