The range of online bingo players is increasing, every day, not least since the game of bingo, itself, is clear and understandable, learn and play. Online bingo sites now offer not only the potential of substantial cash prizes, but also the chance 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, in fact, be matched by the site, itself. The specific 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 may choose a bingo game through which to participate, and 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 present 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 will be 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, in which the players compete against each other to accomplish set patterns on their own cards.

Progressive jackpot bingo adds a new dimension to the excitement of the game, and, keep 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 may only be won under certain conditions, imposed through the online promoter. A progressive jackpot game may require, for example, that a winning pattern is completed in advance of certain number of bingo balls being drawn, or called. The number of balls could possibly be, say, 45, or 40, or 35, and, fairly obviously, the lower the number the more difficult the game is to win. If no player completes his, or her, bingo card within the requisite range 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 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 in the UK, and looks to be here to stay.