The number of online bingo players is increasing, day by day, not least since the game of bingo, itself, is clear and understandable, learn and play. Online bingo sites now offer not simply the potential for substantial cash prizes, but additionally the option to socialise, make new friends, and catch up on the latest gossip, in specially designed bingo chat rooms.

All you should do to start, is to search out the site that suits you best, in terms of 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 through the site, itself. The actual funding of your account may be achieved via a debit, or credit, card or via a range of secure transaction options recommended by the website in question.

Once registered, you can choose a bingo game through which to participate, as well as 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, in addition to the game pattern for the current 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 solid feeling of community, among the factors that are making online bingo so popular. Players get to understand one other, share tips and have a generally entertaining time, discussing bingo, or anything else that takes their fancy.

Players are able available single player games, where the size of the cash prize is dependent upon how rapidly the player fills within their card, or multiplayer games, in which the players compete against each other to complete set patterns on their own cards.

Progressive jackpot bingo adds a new dimension to the excitement of the game, and, remember, 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's won. The larger the range of players playing a particular game the larger the jackpot prize fund that's up for grabs.

The progressive jackpot can just be won under certain conditions, imposed by the online promoter. A progressive jackpot game may require, for example, that a winning pattern is completed in advance of certain range of bingo balls being drawn, or called. The number of balls could 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 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 national Lottery, progressive jackpot prizes can reach substantial sums, before they can be 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.