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ANYONE FOR 90 BALL BINGO?
20/04/2005Traditionally, US-style bingo is 75 ball and UK-style bingo is 90 ball. In the 90 ball game each ticket has three rows of numbers and each game has three winners: the first to complete one row, the first to complete two rows and the first to complete three rows, ie the entire ticket. For an authentic British feel, the Playtech game also has cockney accented bingo callers and uses traditional British bingo call outs like Duck and Dive 25 and Two Fat Ladies 88.
Interestingly there have been no barriers to acceptance of so called US-style 75 ball bingo for UK online bingo players so far. In fact many online bingo players prefer the 75 ball format, as the games are quicker, adding a faster momentum and excitement to the whole experience.
As far as adding traditional bingo hall touches, like the bingo calls instead of just numbers, it remains to be seen if this will be appreciated. The online bingo model has left behind some of the land based bingo hall rituals and maybe for good reason. UK online bingo players love chatting while playing and longer, more elaborate bingo calls put more attention on the performance of the caller and detract for the chat.
Here at www.onlinebingo.co.uk, we suspect that UK online bingo players have moved onto the next generation of bingo playing and just because a format is UK-style doesn't mean it is the style that UK online bingo players want.
