As the football season draws to a close punters start to look around for a summer replacement. May I suggest you chance your hand at bingo? Online bingo has become the biggest online game played and when it comes to turnover, will soon rival football itself. The reasons? It’s fast, it’s inexpensive, you can win large sums and frankly, for many bettors, it’s simply a lot of fun.

Online bingo is slightly different to the old fashioned game of bingo, or ludo as some will know it.  With the old games, you had a card with numbers printed on it. Random numbers would be drawn and if one of those numbers appeared on your card, you would mark it off. Online bingo is similar but these days it has gone to a whole new level. You have two forms – the slot machine form and the standard card form. We’ll leave aside the slot machines and concentrate on the card form.

Where today’s online bingo differs to the old games is in the patterns required to win. In the past, a line or a full card was required to win. These days, the patterns could include all corners; top and bottom row; and patterns, and there are thousands of pattern combinations. Like offline bingo, you can purchase a number of cards and play them all simultaneously. This increases your chances of winning – and keeps you on your toes.

Online bingo has one other major difference. If you’re a little slow at marking off numbers, you can have the computer automatically mark them off for you. It’s certainly a big help and means you never miss a win. Online bingo – it’s relatively cheap to play, has good prizes and could just help to fill in that time while we wait for the next football season to arrive.