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02 Apr 2011

How to play Bingo online!

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How to ensure you pick the right Bingo Company

It seems like there is a new bingo provider popping up every day, with TV adverts, magazine promos and radio slots. So where on earth do you begin?! The majority of sites offer broadly the same features:

  • Free games -(play without spending money)
  • Deposits matched (double your playing money)
  • Free cash (free money when you register)
  • Chat rooms (like MSN, chat to other players)
  • Free Prizes (be automatically entered into free draws regularly)
  • Plus many more features depending on the site!

So which features float your boat?

How bestbingo.me.uk can help

I follow all of the major bingo sites available and will post regular reviews to help you understand the winning features. I’ll also post regular news to help you keep up to date the big offers around. Make sure to come back to check out the newest offers.

How do I get started?

Once you picked the site for you, click on the logo or ‘join now’ button. This will take you directly to the website. Sign up to join and start enjoying! Enter one of the bingo rooms to get started and buy tickets. All of the sites start with an ‘auto dab’ function as it can be quite quick paced. This allows you to pick the lots of games to play and ensure you don’t miss out on a win. This will also let you have a good nosy around the site and check out all of the features. Quite often a member of staff will be on the chat room to help prompt things along. Go on, have a flutter!

Good Luck!

29 Aug 2008

Chat Room Lingo

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All good online bingo sites have chat rooms to help you keep up with your friends and make new ones.  With Bingo being such a quick paced game it can be hard to keep up with the abbreviations!

Chatting on bingo chatroom sites can be similar to textin on mobile phones.  Check out the standard abbreviations:

AFK                    Away from keyboard

BBL                    Be back later

BLNT                 Better luck next time

BRB                   Be right back

CYA                  See ya

GG                    Good game

GL                     Good Luck

GMTA               Great minds think alike

GTSY                 Good to see you

HB                    Hurry back

IGP                   I gotta pee

JK                     Just kidding

L8R                  Later

LOL                  Laugh out loud

OMG                Oh my God

QT                   Cutie

SWALK             Sealed with a loving kiss

TK                  Take Care

WD                 Well done

28 Aug 2008

Old Skool bingo calling!!

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Back in the good old days of bingo balls being turned in a tombola, the bingo caller would pick a ball out and say a phrase which rhymes with the number, before saying the number.  Whilst old fashioned in the bingo world now, most people have heard the phrase “two fat ladies, eighty eight”.

Here is the list of the original numbers:

1 Kelly’s eye
2 One little duck
3 You and me
4 Knock at the door
5 Man alive
6 Tom’s tricks
7 Lucky number seven (God’s in heaven)
8 One Fat Lady
9 Doctor’s orders
10 Tony’s Den
11 Legs eleven
12 One dozen
13 Unlucky for some
14 Valentines day
15 Rugby team, Young and keen
16 Sweet sixteen | Never been kissed
17 Often been kissed | Dancing Queen
18 Key of the door | Coming of age
19 Goodbye teens
20 Getting plenty | Blind 20
21 Key of the door
22 Two little ducks | All the twos
23 Thee and me
24 Two dozen
25 Duck and dive
26 Pick and mix
27 Gateway to heaven
28 In a state | Over weight
29 You’re doing fine
30 Blind 30
31 Get up and run
32 Buckle my Shoe
33 Dirty knees
34 Ask for more
35 Jump and jive
36 Three dozen
37 A flea in heaven
38 Christmas cake
39 Those famous steps
40 Naughty Forty
41 Time for fun
42 Winnie the Pooh
43 Down on your knees
44 Droopy drawers | All the fours
45 Halfway house
46 Up to tricks
47 Four and seven
48 Four dozen
49 PC (Police Constable)
50 Bulls eye | Blind 50
51 Tweak of the thumb
52 Weeks in a year
53 Stuck in the tree
54 Clean the floor
55 Snakes alive | All the fives
56 Was she worth it?
57 Heinz varieties
58 Make them wait
59 Brighton line
60 Blind 60
61 Bakers bun
62 Tickety boo (Turn on the screw)
63 Tickle me
64 Red raw
65 Old age pension
66 Clickety click
67 Made in heaven
68 Saving grace
69 The same both ways
70 Blind 70
71 Bang on the drum
72 Par for the course
73 Queen B
74 Candy store
75 Strive and strive
76 Trombones
77 All the sevens
78 Heavens gate
79 One more time
80 Blind 80
81 Stop and run
82 Straight on through
83 Time for tea
84 Seven dozen
85 Staying alive
86 Between the sticks
87 Fat lady with a crutch
88 Two fat ladies
89 Nearly there
90 Blind ninety