Online bingo is not so different to the game originally played in pubs, clubs and bingo halls around Britain. Die hard fans knew that the only way to give yourself any real chance of winning was by playing multiple cards. You could see them every Tuesday and Thursday, trotting off to the bingo halls armed with special clip boards and card stampers (used to mark off the numbers as called). They would buy multiple books, sometimes as many as ten, although you had to be pretty good to play that many.

Today, bingo halls are few and far between. The online version has really taken over when it comes to popularity – let’s face it, why suffer the winter chills, for example, when you can play from the comfort of your own home? The game itself is still the same and, yes, you can buy multiple cards, in theory giving you more chances to win.

A mathematician would, of course, argue that point. While more cards do give you more chances, each card has the same number of chances of winning – I don’t care what the mathematician would say, more cards = more chances. Of course, you still have to be quick. Some online bingo sites do let you put the games on auto play – the computer marks the numbers as called, but that defeats the purpose of playing, to some extent.

Has bingo ever caught your attention? If so, consider checking out what the online version of the game has to offer. It’s just as fast, just as furious and just as much fun. The biggest difference is that now some of the jackpots are huge and often for the cost of a few pennies.