Get progressive with jackpot bingo

Clarissa Kane | Published on December 26, 2011

You might find this difficult to believe but bingo started its life as a board game for children that was called lotto. According to various reports it was first played in the early part of the eighteenth century in Europe. It took almost one hundred and fifty years before lotto developed into an adult game probably after some enterprising individual figured out that you could actually bet on the probability of a certain number of series of numbers coming up, and who would draw them first.

That's how bingo got started and has been played in that form ever since. What made bingo appealing to a lot of people that it was not only a game but an excuse for a social gathering. In the prosperous days after the Second World War, Bingo became organised and there were bingo halls springing up all over Europe where bingo lovers could pass an evening’s entertainment with their friend while enjoying their favourite game.

Anyone who ever sat in a crowded bingo hall as the balls were falling will recall the undercurrent of excitement as the cards began to fill and the call of "house" was not too far away. Syndicated bingo halls were among the first to offer progressive prizes, where several halls participated in a draw where the prize could be pretty huge.

Like the game of bingo itself, the progressive draw has transferred very well to the internet, and lovers of bingo are having a great time taking part in prize pools with players from around the World. There are always the regular bingo draws taking place around the clock. However taking part in a progressive jackpot sessions has become a major attraction. The thought of winning a life changing cash prize while playing your favourite game in your own home is just too exciting to pass up.

Admittedly there are a few online bingo players who point out that the online version does lack a little of the atmosphere that playing in live bingo games offered. What the passage of time may have caused them to forget is the nights in the pouring rain waiting for a bus, the noise and the smoky atmosphere of bingo halls, not being able to find a seat among the other negative sides. Not only that but the prizes in a land based bingo halls are like a bad joke compared to what you can win on line, even in a bread and butter session.

Playing online you gain so much and lose so little, and if you hit a progressive jackpot prize it will certainly all be worthwhile.

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