The range of online bingo players is increasing, every day, not least since the game of bingo, itself, is easy to understand, learn and play. Online bingo sites now offer not just the potential for substantial cash prizes, but additionally the opportunity to socialise, make new friends, and catch up on the-latest gossip, in specially designed bingo chat rooms.

All you have to do to start, is to search out the site that suits you best, with regards 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, actually, be matched by the site, itself. The actual funding of your account may be achieved via a debit, or credit, card or via a number of secure transaction options recommended by the website in question.

Once registered, you can choose a bingo game in which to participate, and the number 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, together with the game pattern for the current game. Watch this pattern closely, as it may change from game to game, and only by completing the present 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 an effective feeling of community, one of the factors that are making online bingo so popular. Players get to learn one other, share tips and have a generally entertaining time, discussing bingo, or anything else that takes their fancy.

Players are able to select 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, through which the players compete against each other to accomplish set patterns on their own cards.

Progressive jackpot bingo adds a whole new dimension to the excitement of the game, and, as always, the possibility of winning a considerable 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 range of players playing a particular game the larger the jackpot prize fund that is up for grabs.

The progressive jackpot may only be won under certain conditions, imposed by the online promoter. A progressive jackpot game may require, by way of example, that a winning pattern is completed in advance of certain range of bingo balls being drawn, or called. The range of balls might be, say, 45, or 40, or 35, and, fairly obviously, the bottom the number the greater difficult the game is to win. If no player completes his, or her, bingo card in 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 website, progressive jackpot prizes can reach substantial sums, before they are eventually won.

Players are now able to download bingo gaming software from many online bingo sites. Downloads are popular since 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.