The Rules of Online Bingo Games

Playing Bingo Online is similar to playing it at your favourite brick and mortar casino. You can play free bingo games or cash games, depending upon your choice, 24 hours a day. The rules for playing bingo are fairly simple. Besides, nearly all bingo sites have live chat rooms where you can request help from the site's customer service department or chat live with other players.

A game of Bingo begins when the caller randomly pulls numbered bingo balls and calls out the numbers. Players are required to locate the number, within a few seconds, on their cards and mark them off. In the case of online bingo games, auto-daubers automatically mark the card for the players.

Bingo cards have five rows and columns with a random selection of numbers. The "B" column contains random numbers between 1 and 15, "I" has numbers from 16 to 30, "N" contains numbers from 31 to 45 (containing a free space in the center), "G" has numbers from 46 to 59, and "O" has numbers from 60 to 75. If a player completes the numbers in a pattern according to the rules of the particular game, he yells "Bingo!" and win the prize for the game. There are various patterns that may be used in a game.

However, whilst playing bingo on the Internet, bingo cards are randomly selected for the player by the computer. Most bingo sites allow the players to choose the number of cards they would like to play for each game of bingo. The game pattern is also displayed on their screens so that they know which bingo pattern they are supposed to complete to win the game. The most common bingo patterns are straight lines in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction. Play continues until one or more players are the first to complete the bingo pattern. The game then stops until the numbers are verified. If there is more than one simultaneous winner, the winners split the prize or jackpot.

Online bingo rules make the game of bingo much smoother for everyone involved. There really are not many rules required in a bingo chat room or a bingo game. In a chat room the rules are called chatiquette, or etiquette for chat rooms. These rules are really quite simple and they are as follows:

?    Do not to gossip about other players.
?    Do not to argue with the chat master.
?    Congratulate the winners of each game.
?    Do not complain, gripe or grumble if you lose.
?    Be a good sport.
?    Be friendly to other players and especially to new players.
?    Do not use all caps whilst chatting with other players. Typing in all capital letters is the online equivalent of shouting.

If you follow these simple rules, you will enjoy the game and have lots of fun whilst playing online Bingo.