The number of online bingo players is increasing, daily, not least because the game of bingo, itself, is straightforward, learn and play. Online bingo sites now offer not only the potential for substantial cash prizes, but also the option to socialise, make new friends, and catch up on the-latest gossip, in specially designed bingo chat rooms.

All you need to do to start, is to find the site that suits you best, when it comes to the bingo games, and prize money, available, and register for an account. You will then need to make an initial deposit. This deposit may, in reality, be matched through the site, itself. The actual funding of your account can be achieved via a debit, or credit, card or via a range of secure transaction options recommended through the website in question.

Once registered, you may choose a bingo game by which to participate, as well as the range of individual bingo cards that you wish to play in that game. When play begins, the bingo balls drawn, or "called", will be displayed on the screen, as well as the game pattern for the current game. Watch this pattern closely, as it may change from game to game, and only by completing the current game pattern can you hope to win a prize.

Many online bingo sites allow players to chat whilst playing bingo, play chat games, and share in each other's success. This brings a strong experience of community, among the factors that can be making online bingo so popular. Players get to understand one other, share tips and also have a generally entertaining time, discussing bingo, or anything else which takes their fancy.

Players are able to pick from single player games, where the size of the cash prize will depend on how rapidly the player fills in their card, or multiplayer games, in which the players compete against each other to complete set patterns on their own cards.

Progressive jackpot bingo adds a whole new dimension to the excitement of the game, and, bear in mind, the possibility of winning an important cash prize. Progressive jackpot games feature constantly growing prize fund, where money rolls over from one game to the next, until it really is won. The larger the number of players playing a particular game the larger the jackpot prize fund that's up for grabs.

The progressive jackpot can just be won under certain conditions, imposed through the online promoter. A progressive jackpot game may require, as an example, that a winning pattern is completed in advance of certain range of bingo balls being drawn, or called. The range of balls could possibly be, say, 45, or 40, or 35, and, fairly obviously, the bottom the number the better difficult the game is to win. If no player completes his, or her, bingo card within the requisite number of calls, the prize money for that games "rolls over" to the next qualifying game; repeated "rollovers" mean that, like the nation's Lottery, progressive jackpot prizes can reach substantial sums, before they're eventually won.

Players are now able to download bingo gaming software from many casino online bingo sites. Downloads are popular given that they allow bingo to be lifelike, with realistic sound and enhanced graphics. Online bingo, at one time, perhaps, considered an American phenomenon, has arrived within the UK, and looks to be here to stay.