How to win at Bingo games Online
One of the biggest question online bingo players frequently ask is "How to win at bingo?" A lot of people think that bingo is an easy game where anybody can win, which is true to an extent. Also, bingo is one such game that requires no specific skill set or mental acumen to win. Most experienced players would maintain that bingo is solely based on luck and there's nothing much you can do to improve your odds of winning.
While this is true that there is no way to guarantee a win at bingo, but there are quite a few veterans who have devised many simple yet effective bingo tips and strategies that may greatly improve your winning chances.
One such way of increasing your odds is to play in a game with lesser players. For some, this would mean playing at bingo sites during hours when you know fewer people would turn up like early morning or noon time.
But practicing this theory has a downside to it as well. As we know that most bingo jackpots are not fixed and are usually based on a part of profits gathered from the sale of bingo cards. So, if there are more bingo players, more bingo cards will be sold and bigger the jackpot will be.
Another popular bingo strategy that most bingo players use is to play with as many cards at a time as you can manage. Please note that you must buy as many cards "as you can manage". Because if you play with more cards than you can keep track, you will end up losing more money than you may win.
Anyway, this strategy says that the more the cards you daub, the better chances you have of hitting a bingo. Hence, it stands to reason that the most frequent bingo winner would be the one who can manage most cards simultaneously.
However, playing bingo with as many cards as you can handle works well in traditional bingo halls, in online bingo halls you might not be able to play with as many cards as you like. Some casinos have a rule that every player must play with equal number of cards at all games. This makes the games more fair and square and it becomes difficult for a player to have an edge over others.
But still, if you're able to find a site that allows you play with as many cards as you want, then join it as it dramatically improves your odds of winning. There are some sites that even allow you to play as many as 30 cards per game.
Counting numbers by GranvilleWhile this is true that there is no way to guarantee a win at bingo, but there are quite a few veterans who have devised many simple yet effective bingo tips and strategies that may greatly improve your winning chances.
One such way of increasing your odds is to play in a game with lesser players. For some, this would mean playing at bingo sites during hours when you know fewer people would turn up like early morning or noon time.
But practicing this theory has a downside to it as well. As we know that most bingo jackpots are not fixed and are usually based on a part of profits gathered from the sale of bingo cards. So, if there are more bingo players, more bingo cards will be sold and bigger the jackpot will be.
Another popular bingo strategy that most bingo players use is to play with as many cards at a time as you can manage. Please note that you must buy as many cards "as you can manage". Because if you play with more cards than you can keep track, you will end up losing more money than you may win.
Anyway, this strategy says that the more the cards you daub, the better chances you have of hitting a bingo. Hence, it stands to reason that the most frequent bingo winner would be the one who can manage most cards simultaneously.
However, playing bingo with as many cards as you can handle works well in traditional bingo halls, in online bingo halls you might not be able to play with as many cards as you like. Some casinos have a rule that every player must play with equal number of cards at all games. This makes the games more fair and square and it becomes difficult for a player to have an edge over others.
But still, if you're able to find a site that allows you play with as many cards as you want, then join it as it dramatically improves your odds of winning. There are some sites that even allow you to play as many as 30 cards per game.
There's another quite complex strategy based on predictions that is often used by bingo players to forecast the outcome of the numbers. This technique is quite similar to the notorious card counting technique used in single-deck blackjack games. The only difference being that in this case you're counting bingo balls instead of cards.
To ace this technique you must have some basic knowledge of the mathematical law of probability. You'll often find this strategy listed under "how to win at bingo" e books or online tutorials.
We all know that bingo is played with 75 balls. According to the law of probability, the odds of any number to come up next is 1 in 75, hence the random factor has a uniform distribution.
Some mathematicians believe that in the game of bingo, the balls will fall in a consistent pattern as directed by the laws of probability. Hence, it is likely that an equal amount of odd and even numbers, and an equal amount of high and low numbers will be picked. Again, it is also means that there will be an equal amount of numbers ending in 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, and so on picked.
This makes it obvious that if you can stay in the game long enough, eventually your numbers will be called. And if that's the case it means that winning at bingo is more about how long you stay in the game, rather than how many cards you buy for a single game.
The Tippett Theory
Another winning bingo strategy involves a complex theory about randomness, which was invented by and named after, a British Statistician L.H.C Tippett. According to this theory, the more bingo numbers that are drawn, the more likely the numbers drawn are going to be median number i.e. 38. Hence if you're playing a short game, where you are allowed to choose your cards, you'd be better off choosing numbers closer to 1 and 78.
On the other hand, if you're playing a longer game, then pick cards with numbers closer to 38. Now, you may ask, how do I tell whether a game will be shorter or longer? Well, this is usually ascertained by the pattern being played.
To conclude, we can say that these all are only strategies without any real statistics to prove how effective they really are. So why don't you just try them out and see for yourself whether they really work or not.