Of all the games that have been adapted for specific use online, bingo has proven to be one of the one of the most popular. The reason for this popularity is also simple to understand, it is because playing any form of online bingo is dead easy. It doesn’t matter what form of the game you have played before, if it is only 75 ball bingo, you will soon grasp the concept of 90 ball bingo, because the only things which are different are the number of calls, the amount of balls the card and the way you win.
This might seem like a great many differences but it’s not!
When you buy a 90 ball bingo card it is marked with a 27 square grid of three rows and nine columns. The grid is marked with 15 random numbers, five in each row, making up a 15 different numbers. When the game begins and the numbers are called you simply mark them off with your dabber if you are in a land-based bingo call. If you aren’t, and you are playing online, they are automatically dabbed for you.
You win on one line, this means when you have a row of numbers marked off in one row. This is the lowest prize, you also win when you have two rows of numbers and when you have full house. The full house is when all the numbers on the card have been marked off and the prize for this win is the biggest on offer. It is usually the jackpot prize!
Sometimes prizes are guaranteed and other times they are part of a PJP, or progressive jackpot. PJP’s usually reach large amounts and are the most worthwhile prizes to win. However they can be more difficult to achieve a win on. There are often criteria which have to be met, citeria such as getting the full house in a certain amount of numbers. I have seen very low call numbers on these prizes, so always read the terms and conditions of a game and make sure you understand them before you play for PJP’s.
90 Ball online bingo is great fun to play and it is the favourite of the UK player. Mostly because it has always been the most widely played in the UK, so it has transitioned to the internet well and has retained its popularity.

Learning how to play 80 ball bingo is really simple, basically it is a fusion of the 90 and 75 ball games. Some people refer to the game as shutter-board bingo, because it was played with these board which has little windows and shutter you close over them as the numbers were called. We don’t see it called this today, and particularly online it is called 80 ball bingo.
For a middle of the road choice of bingo game, this version is ideal. It is a little shorter than the 90 ball variety and a little longer than the 75 ball game. It also offers a different way of winning, patterns are used on the card, just like in 75 ball bingo. The only really big difference is in the actual design of the card. It is also a grid, with five rows and four columns. Each column is a different colour and the colours used are red, yellow, blue and silver.
There are no tricks to playing 80 ball bingo, just like playing any other game of bingo you buy your tickets, the numbers are call from a selection of 1 – 80 and its eyes down while you play. The only difference is that playing online, you don’t have to go “eyes-down” when the game begins, you just allow the game to play through. Most sites use an auto-daub feature, there are some sites which allow you to turn this off, so you can mark the cards yourself, but I haven’t seen this very widely used.
The beauty of the auto-daub system is that you are able to play side games, chat to your roomies, and participate in chat games, while the bingo game is playing. Of course you don’t have to do this all at the same time, but many players have become so adept at multi-tasking when they play online bingo, they do all three.
There are no huge rule books you have to read to play 80 ball bingo, just join a site, choose your game and play. It is made more interesting by the fact that patterns are able to be printed onto the cards, because it is an almost square grid. The patterns used, may be specific to a promotion or just the classic X, four corners, other letters, horizontal and vertical. The winner is the first person to complete covering all the numbers in the pattern.

Bingo is one of the most well loved games in the UK, it has become even more popular since the advent of online bingo and it is also very popular in the US, Canada, Australia, Japan and New Zealand. The popularity of playing this game online is growing in Europe and South America also.

75 Ball bingo is the variation of the game that is most enjoyed by US and Canadian players, but it is growing in popularity in the UK. This seems to be because it is so readily available online and most UK bingo sites offer members a choice of different games.

The bingo card for a 75 ball game is constructed from 5 horizontal and five vertical columns which form a grid of 25 squares. The square in the centre of the grid is a free space and it never contains a number. However if this square forms part of a pattern, players are automatically allowed to mark it off as a free space.

It is a simple matter to construct patterns on a grid such as this and many of the patterns used in these games are in line with a particular theme, of either the game in play or of a particular promotion. The patterns on these cards are one of the reason why players enjoy playing, they make it more interesting. There are hundreds of different patterns which may be used on a 75 ball bingo card. The coverall game is very popular and in this game all the squares except the free space have numbers, all have to be market off and this game provides the largest prize money.

The top of the card has the word B – I – N – G – O printed above each vertical column and a certain series of numbers is allocated to each column, there are 15 for each. The “B” column is 1 – 15, I is 16 – 30, N is 31 – 45 and so on.

The aim of the game is to mark off all the numbers in the pattern as they are called. The range of numbers used as the name of the game suggests is 1 – 75. These numbers are called as they come up from the random number generator, and the first player to fill their card is the winner. Traditionally at this point they would shout BINGO.

The game is played exactly the same in land based clubs as it is online, the only difference being that with online bingo the numbers are automatically daubed. The word daub means marked off.