Like always, 123bingoonline is all set to make your spring more special with an unforgettable online bingo ‘Go Green’ theme. With a lot of spring-a-licious promotions, 123bingoonline offers more bingo  patterns, more variations and a lot more cash!

The tag line- Who says money doesn’t grow on trees? On 123Bingoonline it does!says it all. At the site, you will find the most interesting promotions namely Bingo green belt, money plant bingo, bingo garage sale, Leprechaun Bingo Riddle, and St. Patrick’s Day Bingo Parade etc.

• Bingo green belt : All you have to do is, bingo on the green belt and earn 5 Bbs in the green(Quarters) room. The number of times you bingo on any number in the ‘G’ column, you will be given a flower by the chat host to hail your win. If you are the first one to collect 25 flowers within a month, you win 50 BBs.

• Money Plant Bingo : Get the Palm Tree Pattern in the Green (Quarters) Room and grab a guaranteed win of $150 and extra BBs too. Don’t you think its a grand bingo offer?

  

• Bingo Garage sale: Its time for garage sales at 123bingoonline. Get ready to grab items like a Bell, a Chair, a Chandelier, a Clock and a Golf Club at this garage sale. As soon as you bingo on any of these bingo patterns in the Green (Quarters) Room, you win $100 guaranteed. And if you bingo within the specific number of calls you win EXTRA Bbs. Any roomie who is able to collect all the garage items first by the end of the day will get 50 Bbs.

• Leprechaun Bingo Riddle : Do you wish to be a kid again? Then bring forth the child in you and solve some riddles to win amazing BBs. Leprechaun Hat pattern in the Red (Nickels) Room offers a guaranteed $100. Each time you bingo on the Leprechaun Hat pattern, you also get a chance to solve a riddle. Solve this riddle and get 10 BBs.

  

• St. Patrick’s Day Bingo Parade : Get ready to be dressed in lush green colors and be the part of the St. Patrick’s Day Bingo Parade on 123Bingoonline. Oh! You don’t have a green outfit ready to be a part of it yet? Do not worry, you can be a part of this bingo parade even without it. All you have to do is join the majestic St. Patrick’s Day Bingo Parade in the Ruby (90 Ball) Room every Sunday. Tread through the marching band, be the leader of the parade and win impressive BBs. During this 2 hours of bingo march, you got to roll up as many precious gold shamrocks as you can. The three top lucky players get to lead the parade.

So, get ready to show up your leadership qualities as well as your winning urge and grab unlimited BBs and some big cash offers at 123bingoonline, this spring. Make your spring time more green, more rich and unforgettable this season.

Bingo chat games are sensational! Full of energy. Full of excitement. And, full of entertainment. Period.

They are simply amazing! Online bingo would lose its charm if these small, side games are taken away from online bingo.

I still remember the first time I participated in a bingo chat game. I wasn’t sure about the game if I be honest. It was all happening in a jiffy. The chat host announced about a short game and followed it up by typing in the instructions to play the game. Momentarily, the game began.

It was about picking a number and if the number that you picked up was called before the game was over, you would win the prize, which was in the form of bingo bucks (BBs). I couldn’t get that lucky somehow but the game certainly left me on a good note. I liked it very much.

The best thing about the chat games on 123bingoonline.com is variety. There is an assortment of entertaining chat games that are offered during regular bingo games.

These games bring a chat room to life. I have seen almost 100 players participate at the same time in chat games while playing bingo! Hats off to those chat hosts who manage to entertain such a big number of players at a time. Enthusiasm and excitement simply bring bingo to life. Every time!

I participate in most of the chat games. And if you want to be the part of the fun and excitement, do take part in these side games better known as chat games. Let there be fun!

Did you know that bingo is one game that has survived the worst of the situations, be it wars or recessions?

In fact, this game made its way over to America right when this country was suffering depression following the end of two world wars. At the time when all other forms of entertainment were getting affected, bingo was rising.

Even today when the essence of entertainment is being injured by the blows of recession, online bingo has managed to escape the strokes of this economic crises thus making its way into the hearts of people.

And if you are a bingo fan, I am sure you won’t be astonished to see the love for this game becoming deeper and deeper with time because of its potential to act as a stress buster.
With many convenient and excellent features, online bingo gets people going even during this economic decline. Bingo provides you…

• The chance to get into the exotic and colorful bingo rooms and play bingo to win awesome rewards and jackpots.
• The option to chat and share your experiences with your dear bingo buddies in the online bingo rooms.
• The opportunity to play new and incredible chat games while your bingo cards are being automatically daubed by an auto-daub tool.
• And you can do all this without traveling long distances and leaving the comforts of your house.

It’s convenient, it’s entertaining and it’s rewarding! Bingo is indeed a reasonable source of entertainment that gets you the opportunity to earn money as well! With so much to offer, it’s not at all surprising as to why this versatile gaming option is rising in grace.

Stressed? Then come and be the part of the most immaculate and stress bursting bingo experience on 123bingoonline! Play bingo games and release your stress!

What image springs in your mind when you hear the word BINGO?

I am confident that you can’t see Einstein with a bingo dauber and his eyes peeled into his bingo card?

The word bingo mostly conjures up an image of the set of old and wrinkled people socializing and striking off the numbers on their bingo cards.

I am 21 and I too enjoy playing bingo games. So, this stereotype image of bingo somehow irritates me. For this reason I decided to overturn this typical bingo formula because I feel that bingo is instead an intellectual game with the potential to improve your brain efficiency.

Don’t believe this? Well, then read on…

A prolonged test was conducted on a group of about 100 people to produce accurate and unbiased results. This group was further categorized into two classes- One class included people who regularly played bingo and the other class included people who didn’t play bingo games at all.

The people who played bingo completed the tests more accurately than those who didn’t!

The results proved that the bingo players have better memory retention as compared to the others. This in return gives them the power to focus on their work thus helping them complete a given task in a much shorter time frame as compared to the non bingo players.

Have a look at how the two key aspects of bingo condition the two main areas of your Brain:

• First one is the social factor of bingo. Socializing with others and sharing knowledge with your online bingo buddies in a chat room will definitely help you learn about some new facts which you may not be aware of.
• Plus, carrying out multiple tasks including, watching the cards being daubed, chatting with the roomies and competing with them to win on the intellectual set of chat games organized in bingo rooms help increase the mental agility of a player.

So, all set to exercise your brain? Then come and be the part of the smart and brainy bingo community on 123bingoonline and believe me it works. I have tried it and now it’s your turn!

Have an intellectual gaming online!

There is something about Bingo that we just can’t resist! It is difficult to pinpoint the exact reason that makes it an engrossing game all over the world. If you like 75 ball Bingo for its speed and huge variety of Bingo patterns, your friend may be fond of 90 ball Bingo because of its simplicity. If the Aussies play Housie, Bingo players in UK call it ‘housey’ while ‘tambola’ is how the Asians know Bingo.

However, we can’t deny that the 75 ball Bingo variation is more popular, basically because of the wide range of Bingo patterns that it offers to suit various tastes of Bingo players.

There is a vibrant range of static Bingo patterns ranging from simple postage stamps to complex picnic tables for fun-loving Bingo players. You can also try out those typical straight lines, corners and coveralls too, if you want to get a traditional Bingo treat.

Then there are those naughty dynamic Bingo patterns for our adventurous Bingo players. These players daringly accept the challenge of these non- static patterns that move from 90° to 180° and from 180° to 120°. It does sound crazy, but it is good to be crazy at times.

All you newbies out there …cheer up because Bingo has ‘wild’ patterns in store for you. In the 75 ball Bingo variation, wild patterns give you an easy option to create stipulated bingo patterns anywhere on the bingo card.

And if you are on the lookout for longer bingo games…go for 90 ball bingo. It is played with 90 numbers and so the game takes more time to complete compared to 75 ball bingo. However, this version of bingo is not liked much as it does not have many bingo patterns to offer. It is mostly the plain horizontal lines, corners and full house that are played.

You can take a walk to the close by Bingo halls in your locality and enjoy all these variations with your Bingo buddies along with complimentary drinks and snacks.

But hey are you feeling tired? Don’t have the energy to step out in the cold? Or don’t have an access to the land Bingo halls? Don’t you worry! High technology Internet software tools have all the solutions have brought bingo halls right into your living room. All you need is a desktop, an Internet connection, a comfortable couch and a glass of red wine in your hands. Plus, the never-ending bonus offers of online bingo to keep up the excitement.

In the end whatever Bingo games variation you choose to play, your ultimate goal should be to grab the maximum fun. So, make sure you pick up the Bingo game that you think suits your needs best and have a Bingo bash.

Bingo is a versatile game. It’s a game of 75, 80, or 90 balls, with thousands of winning patterns. Over the years, or I would rather say centuries, Bingo has undergone a significant change. Men, women, adults, youngsters – everybody loves to play Bingo which was once considered a “ladies-only” game.

As a result, Bingo winning patterns have undergone a major change. With the invention of online Bingo, thanks to computers and Internet, today there are hundreds of interesting Bingo patterns to choose from and play on. These patterns are interesting, a lot of fun to play with and not exactly easy to win. In fact, it is these changes in the Bingo patterns that have brought in an element of challenge in an otherwise simple and staid number-guessing game.

The most common Bingo patterns are called static Bingo patterns. These kinds of patterns are very popular in online Bingo as well as land-based Bingo. These patterns don’t move. For example, let us take the Letter C static pattern– it will stay where it is. A player has to get the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, and 25 to match the ‘C’ pattern. Here it would mean five squares under B, and two each for I, N, G and O.

Dynamic patterns, on the other hand, are very challenging and are generated on the software-driven electronic Bingo cards of online Bingo games. A dynamic pattern can change anytime in the duration of a Bingo game. Let us take a look at the same example of the Letter C pattern. If it is dynamic, the letter C may change its position by rotating clockwise or anti-clockwise. These patterns are hard to complete –obviously the numbers on the first and last row and first column –may not help you complete the pattern which may have rotated to another position. However, it is a lot of fun to chase the pattern. After all, fun and money is what Bingo is all about.

Another variant is the wild pattern. Using the same example ‘C’, the wild pattern is one in which the ‘C’ can be plotted and completed by a winner in any manner. In land-based Bingo games, the required number of squares in such games is specified, whereas in online bingo games, the patterns are displayed.

Also, the letter or alphabet Bingo is one of the simpler patterns of a Bingo game –be it static or dynamic. These days dynamic patterns can come in different shapes based on images of say, a cake, a ship, a heart-sign and so on.

Whether you play Bingo online or at a land-based Bingo hall, you can find different pattern games to try your luck on. To be part of the fresh excitement that is conquering the online Bingo world, go for the dynamic patterns only after you have some expertise with static ones.

Bingo will continue to improvise and innovate. Who knows what other changes we will witness in the future. Whatever the change may be, fun and rewards will continue to be part of online Bingo.

Did I hear you say that Bingo is a woman’s game? It is not women alone who play and like Bingo. We men love Bingo too!

There is no denying the fact that a large chunk of Bingo players include women. But how can we forget that the game of Bingo was actually invented by a man- Edwin S Lowe?

Well, I am a man too and I accept that I just love to play Bingo. I can give a number of reasons for why I love Bingo.

To start with, it is the most fun-way to earn money. I am one of those who likes to mix a little pleasure with business. So I playfully try my luck at Bingo, but am very business-like about the money I wager and win. Especially in these times, with the recession has claimed many victims. I have seen friends who have been layed-off behave quite irresponsibly, whiling away their time at Bingo halls, wasting money by wagering without a thought, drinking and gossiping. Now, if I were to lose my job (God Forbid!) I would treat Bingo as an alternative. Why not? If you play like a professional, it can be quite paying.

Even now, it gives me a refreshing break after the days drudgery. I play Bingo online and avoid the additional expenditure on snacks and drinks. One of my friends who frequents the Bingo hall down the road, joked that the Bingo dauber costs less than a golf kit! But hey, online Bingo players don’t need a dauber –there is an automatic dauber feature as well!

Online Bingo is really cool! Playing Bingo, earning rewards, reaping beefy bonus profits and chatting with online Bingo buddies without leaving the comfort of the living room is every lazy man’s dream! I think it is the Sunday morning equivalent of my dad’s newspaper reading sessions! Except that my wife does not complain or feel left out like my Mom used to feel when Dad read the newspaper for hours on end! Yesterday in fact, my wife peeped over my shoulder and commented on the game’s progress. She then got so involved that she sat down with me and played an online game herself with me looking on. Speak of Bingo Bonding!

It is not as if I never visit the Bingo hall though. In fact, I accompany by wife there. We get our time together, a weekly outing, some tidbits to nibble on as well as chit-chat with friends. After all one cannot go to the movies, concerts or vacations as frequently as one can Bingo!

Hate to tell you this…there is a dark side to Bingo as well. It is all very well for us to rejoice hearing stories of big wins and revelry linked to online Bingo or Bingo Hall games. Let us not gloss over the incidents that prove that Bingo players can behave quite irresponsibly at times.

Not this, Baby Shower Bingo!
Take for instance, the parents of a one-year-old infant. Today, they face imprisonment up to a year for abandoning their child –left locked up in the car with the windows closed –in order to play Bingo at a club in Calle Mancor, Palma in Spain.
Though they claimed that they were checking on the infant frequently, it transpires they were engrossed in the Bingo game for three hours. They did not surface even when the cops arrived and ascertained the vehicle registration and ownership details –an exercise that took a good half hour.

Nickels Room, Beware!
Recently two women aged all of 60 and 85 respectively turned a lazy Bingo game into a tug-of-war in Texas. They were old friends who played regularly at the Del Rio Senior Citizens Centre. One of them suspected that the other had not dropped her nickels in the pot and did a manual check, counting the money out loud. This angered the other who started an argument. The verbal duel soon turned violent and the duo grabbed each other’s hair and clawed their faces. The sister of one of the women also jumped in to lend her support, and all three were bruised. They were admonished for spoiling a fun-game and sent home to cool down. They have also been barred from from playing Bingo at the Centre for 90 days.

Bingo Battery
We have heard of utensils, hair brushes and perhaps flower vases being flung around by angry couples. However a couple in Illinois hurt each other with Bingo daubers! Here is how it happened: Ms Chyrl S Miller returned home after 10 pm one night after playing Bingo. She found the door locked. Though she opened one lock with the key she had, the other had to be unlocked only with the key her husband had.

With growing anger, she hammered on the door to wake up Mr Jerry J Pitts. When he finally came to the door and opened it, she could not control her rage and lashed out at him with her purse. The Bingo dauber fell out and both of them took turns to use it as weapon against each other.
The police moved the couple to the Sangamon County Jail for domestic violence, after finding both injured.

Cheques by Post!

Patricia Barnes had been handling Royal Mail special postal delivery in Norwich, England for 14 long years. She had developed a gambling addiction alongside. To fund her online Bingo craze and slot machine gaming sprees, she stole more than £75,000 in cash and cheques to pay for her addiction to slot machines and online bingo.
The thefts were carried out between April 2007 and June 2008 and were in breach of the highest degree of trust that the public places in postal services. Hence she was sentenced to one year imprisonment. Interestingly, the judge Philip Brooke-Smith, observed: “I accept this was done to support a gambling habit that’s made very easy indeed with the availability of the Internet.”

Online Bingo in America seems to have found a friend in Democrat Representative, Barney Frank.  As of now, there is a ban in the US on Internet Bingo. However, if Frank has his way it may soon be legal to run online Bingo operations in the US. Which in turn would mean online Bingo players in America too can breathe easy and be assured of secure and trustworthy services while they enjoy Bingo from the comfort of their homes.

The Internet Gambling Regulation Consumer Protection & Enforcement Act introduced by Frank to the Congress seeks to stymie the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) passed of 2006. The UIGEA had banned banks and other financial institutions from making transactions linked to online gambling. However, the UIGEA has not been enforced effectively, due to lack of clarity on several aspects of the law.

With an eye on ensuring a well-debated national policy on the issue, Frank is also introducing another Bill called Reasonable Prudence in Regulation Act of 2009. This is expected to delay by one full year, the implementation of the UIGEA and its supporting regulations which were to be in place by December 1, 2009.

Meanwhile, Frank’s main Bill seeks to regulate the online gambling industry by introducing licensing. Only those Bingo, Poker or for that matter online casino operators who can prove their credentials in terms of character, honesty, reputation and prior activities will be issued licenses, if this Bill becomes law.

The Bill provides for stringent pre-licensing checks and operators would have to take on the responsibility of combating money laundering, underage gambling as well as comply with both state and federal laws in the US apart from applicable Indian Tribe limitations.

Applications will have to be accompanied by detailed financial records and personal details of directors to facilitate credit and criminal history checks. The licence when granted would be valid for five years and will be renewed based on good conduct and efficiency –failing which, it would be terminated. Violations attract imprisonment of up to five years under the proposed Act.

Of course, if the regulators step in to ensure clean operations, will taxes be far behind? Representative Jim McDermott is bringing in The Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2009.

Under this, licensed operators have to pay a 2% fee based on turnover. They are also required to collect taxes from winnings before payouts are made –thus ensuring that individual and corporate taxes owed on regulated Internet gambling activities are collected.

Whether or not Scottish singing sensation, Susan Boyle has ever tried her hand at Bingo — or betting for that matter —punters are wagering millions of pounds on her. If they are right, she is likely to walk away with the £ 100,000 prize amount on the Britain’s Got Talent show aired by ITV. When Boyle mustered the courage to audition for the show, she took a gamble alright. We cannot claim she would have stood such a strong chance, say in a game of online Bingo!

The stakes are high now. Giving her competition is Welsh-wonder Jamie Pugh who has just surfaced with his terrific rendition of ‘Bring Him Home’, from the musical Les Misérables. For those of you are not in-the-know, Boyle’s superb singing of “I Dreamed a Dream” from the same musical, sparked off the Boylemania online –with more than 100 million views of her video on YouTube.

It reminds us of the Bingo mania that has swept across the world, especially the online Bingo world.

Some of it is true, some of it is hype. Just as it is with online Bingo. Speaking of Bingo, one of the most truthful accolades Susan Boyle got was from the local bingo caller at the community center where Boyle has volunteered. “We’re all tired of 23-year-old models trying to sing on TV. Susan is a 47-year-old spinster who, by God, can sing,” 64-year-old Michael Nicolson, says in The Washington Post.

Apparently, Susan Boyle has not been employed for long. A small-town lady, she visited church, took care of her Mom till she died and only had a cat, Pebbles for company. She was often spotted at the Bingo hall, minding the brownies and petty cash, or sat by the dartboard at the Happy Valley Hotel in Blackburn, waiting for her turn at karaoke.

There is a reason why ‘Simple Susie’ has become such a legend. Boyle, is the embodiment of the American Dream. Most Americans believe in the rags-to-riches story or the tale of ugly duckling which turned into a swan. Now, there is just one more thing that can make than happen. You know it is Bingo, don’t you ? A simple game, where all you have to do is buy some tickets with numbers on it and hope that you are the lucky one whose numbers are called. If you do daub those numbers off your ticket, you win money! Go on, take a bet…unless you can sing, and sing well! Like Boyle does.