One of the great drawbacks to playing bingo in bingo halls is that you only have one pair of hands. Keeping track of all your bingo cards can begin to be a real headache and the time taken to meticulously check each card for numbers can be difficult when the caller is quick. Some bingo halls try to make more profits by getting through each game as fast as they can, which can be a real problem to people learning the game, or if you struggle to sort though cards.

The time taken to check every card becomes a limit on how many cards you can play with at one time, and so the more experienced or the more dextrous players can have a real advantage. Just flicking through all your cards takes time, and keeping them in order is another huge time cost.

Online bingo makes things a lot fairer. The free bingo software can check all of your cards in a fraction of a second, much faster than any human being could possibly do it. So now any player can play many more bingo cards at once than they could before. Most online bingo sites allow you to play up to 48 cards at a time, which is far beyond any person’s ability to check in time, but the auto-checking software does it all for you.

So now that nobody has an advantage over anyone else, the chances to win are much fairer for everyone. It’s impossible to predict which cards will eventually win a big prize, but making sure that everyone has the same chance to begin with is a huge advantage. Everyone has a bad story of how they missed a prize because they just couldn’t mark their cards quickly enough, and by the time they’d got to the winning card, someone else had won. Now online bingo makes that impossible.

A lot of online bingo sites now offer exciting variations on the classic bingo game, with US style 75 ball Bingo available. 75 ball Bingo is played on a 5 by 5 square card, and has prizes for not only lines and a Full House, but for special shapes that are formed when you fill in the card. This increases the number of ways you can win, and with some shapes being very hard to make, the prizes are so much bigger as well.