You’re all well-acquainted with traditional bingo, but how many of you know what an virtual bingo room really looks like?
Well, to be disarmingly honest, it’s exactly what the name says: a room (albeit virtual) to play bingo via the Internet. This means that all of the entertainment from the traditional halls where bingo is usually being held can be played while relaxing in the comfort of your own home, or from wherever you happen to be when you feel the urge to play.
It’s like visiting a website to check the latest news or watch a video, but this time you enjoy your precious bingo game instead.
The online bingo offer comes in many variations: 90-ball, 75-ball and even 5 line bingo, just to mention the most popular ones. All games available have different prize amounts, so you can choose the one you like best without any hassle.When entering the virtual bingo room, you suddenly get surrounded by a plethora of options, menus and sparkling screens. But don’t let that baffle you…
One of the biggest differences between an online bingo room and a classic brick and mortar room is that in the virtual rooms you can jabber incessantly. A caveat, though: politeness and a minimum of etiquette are always to be followed. Nothing shady happens here!
You engage in talking with other players and with the chat host (CH) through the bingo chat box that allows all members chatting with each other as well as reading what other players type.
To use this socializing feature, you just need to click on the chat window and start writing your thoughts to share.You bored by the chin-wag of other players? Well — you can just ignore it completely!
The chat host (CH) is there to keep the rooms warm an friendly, meet and greet the bingo players, and play funny chat games with them. Moreover, if you have any questions or small silly doubts, the CH will promptly and jovially assist you.
As any other field of entertainment, Virtual bingo has its own lingo. Of course, it’s not a labyrinthine gibberish, and you’ll see that practicing it is very similar to sending text messages or engaging in online chat.
Users in the bingo room will type comradely acronyms, like WTG = Way to go, or GL = Good luck etc. No doubt, there are a lot more lingo terms and expressions, and players will often use them to keep each other amused while in the bingo rooms.
For example, if someone writes “I’m 3tg!” this means that he’s 3-to-go, that is, he just needs 3 more numbers to get the bingo. From there he can go to 2tg, 1tg and then start praying hard to get the WTG from fellow players (which is the common message to compliment a bingo winner).
Members can also amuse themselves with ‘Smiley’ faces (also known as emoticons). You are probably well familiarized with these acrobatic glyphs since… they are omnipresent! Emoticons are used to indicate your emotions or attitudes, and to adorn your messages with them you just have to click on the images at the bottom of the chat box and to send them into the chat room. This way you can spice things up a bit or just bring your mood into the chat as a funny facial gesture.
If that’s not enough, you can send virtual gifts to other players or even to the Chat Host! You only have to click on the gift box that appears next to the emoticons menu. Who knows? Bingo romance might blossom!
Picking the right room name can be tricky. The room has to tie in with the site’s theme, the type of game, and, most importantly, it has to blend in with the room design.
Let’s say you have a bingo site that’s themed around a wonderland motif. Your room names would need to match this imaginary ambience. Names like Alice in Wonderland, The Tea Party or even The Mad Hatter’s room are exactly what you should look for.
Virtual bingo players tend to stick to their routines, especially when it comes to their favorite bingo rooms. Various reasons can be behind this: they are good virtual friends with the chat host, they love socializing with certain fellow players, they enjoy playing some specific bingo games or the room has a background theme that they just happen to love. Some are mad about the prizes offered, while others like the more tranquil rooms. What’s really important here is that there’s a perfect room for every bingo soul out there. That’s what makes them come back and stay loyal: that unique mixture of fun, thrills and a sense of belonging…
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