Enjoyed by millions across the worldbingo is no longer the realm of elderly women in bingo halls. It’s being picked up by people of all ages because it’s easy to get the hang of, it’s a very social game, it offers huge jackpots… And it’s moved online.
First played in the early part of the 20th Century, bingo started with a simple 5*5 75-ball format, then developing to the the 3*9 90-ball bingo game, making things much more interesting for players.
While the game may have once (and up until relatively recently) played in bingo halls all over the world, the game has now been picked up by companies and offered online, where players can chat and play side games such as blackjack and poker while they sit back and let the autodab function do all the work. What an easy way to win big!
There are oodles of websites that offera limited version of the traditional bingo game at no cost to the player in order to show them what they’re missing. Those once cautious about how to play or whether it would be worth their while are very quickly shown the virtues of free online bingoandslots onlineand remain staunch advocates of the game evermore.
Popular online bingohub, Bingoport, has recently publishedan infographicthat celebrates the triumphs of bingo combined with the upcoming 2012 London Olympics.
And it’s managed to demonstrate pretty clearly just how popular the game is, offering some pretty neat little facts that illustrate its success worldwide.
- The quickest win in history was a jackpot of £40,000 that was awarded within just 40 minutes of the player signing up to the site for the very first time!
- Line up all the bingo balls used in just the last three months and you’d have the length of over 300 marathons (26.2 miles per marathon!)… That’s an incredible distance of nearly8,000 miles, or over three times the distance of a trek to faraway Timbuktu!
- The three most lucrative bingo wins in world history were£1,167,795, £1,101,686 and £1,000,000!
- The highest recorded bingo game was played at a whopping 17,500ft, equating tomore than 1,500 times higher than the Olympic world pole vault record. And if that’s hard to get your head around, that height measures more than 12 times higher than the highest tip ofthe Empire State Building in Manhattan, New York!