| Do you want to know what bingo mania is? Bingo | | | | possibilities available for rising jackpots. The |
| mania is starting with five websites devoted to | | | | stereotyped $20 jackpot bingo has been growing |
| bingo in 1999 and then exploding to 105 websites | | | | for the last couple of decades. High stakes bingo |
| in just four years. The online bingo industry is | | | | developed on Indian Reservations and in |
| capturing a bingo mania that has existed since | | | | conjunction with casinos. Online bingo takes the |
| 1929 when the first bingo game was played in the | | | | rewards of high stakes bingo and brings them to |
| United States at Edwin S. Lowe's apartment in | | | | a low stakes forum. Bingo players can win |
| New York. | | | | thousands of dollars or exotic vacations by |
| Bingo, a game that has been around in many | | | | spending less than a dollar on bingo cards. |
| different forms leading back to the invention of | | | | Online bingo mania is still young, and has not |
| the Italian lottery in 1530, has always been a | | | | completely removed the 'old lady's game' stamp, |
| popular form of entertainment. Today over 1.6 | | | | but the bingo market is growing younger. The |
| billion people claim bingo to be their favorite form | | | | average age of an online bingo player is said to be |
| of entertainment, beating out the runner up, | | | | around 41 years of age. Bingo mania still seems to |
| movies, by over a half billion. | | | | hold a predominantly female audience, with over |
| But over the last 60 years the old fashioned | | | | 80% of the bingo players being women. Still, online |
| game of bingo has been too often associated | | | | bingo mania is revitalizing the game. With chat |
| with being old fashioned. Especially in today's | | | | rooms, growing jackpots and the versatility bingo |
| market, where a young person would rather | | | | has shown through the years; don't be surprised if |
| spend hours in front of a computer than hours in | | | | online bingo keeps growing. Bingo mania is back, |
| a bingo hall sitting next to his grandmother. | | | | and it's not just for old ladies anymore. |
| Even with 1.6 billion players bingo still takes on the | | | | The math is simple, more players equals larger |
| moniker of being an old lady's game.With the | | | | jackpots. The old fashioned bingo hall cannot |
| continuing growth of online bingo the game has | | | | compete with online bingo. Online games are more |
| never before had such a chance to reach so | | | | numerous, quicker, and are easily accessed. Some |
| many new markets starting a new bingo mania to | | | | grandmothers, believe it or not, are playing bingo |
| carry the game into the next millennium. There | | | | online with the same enthusiasm that they played |
| are bingo websites out there for every kind of | | | | with in a church basement. Chat rooms help to |
| person, from grandmothers to grandchildren. For | | | | give online bingo a community atmosphere. |
| grandmothers there are classic bingo rooms with | | | | Players can talk to each other in real time from |
| traditional bingo games and low key chat rooms. | | | | anywhere in the world there is internet |
| For grandchildren there are non-gambling websites | | | | service.Prizes are larger and the old prize of a roll |
| devoted to introducing the game to young people. | | | | of quarters cannot compete with the thousands |
| There are even educational websites using the | | | | of dollars that can now be won playing online |
| game of bingo as a teaching tool. | | | | bingo. |
| Still the real bingo mania has come from the | | | | |