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There are many trivia facts relating to bingo and some are actually quite interesting to read for instance did you know that according to one calculation, there are approximately 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 (five hundred and fifty-two septillion, four hundred and forty-six sextillion, four hundred and seventy-four quintillion, sixty-one quadrillion, one hundred and twenty-eight trillion, six hundred and forty-eight billion, six hundred and one million, six hundred thousand) possible arrangements of the numbers on a bingo card? Read on to find out some more!
The game of bingo has been around from many years now, it first hit the UK in earnest back in the 60’s when we see many land based bingo clubs open up after cinemas and theatres became somewhat redundant due to the introduction of television in our homes.
- It is thought that 95% of bingo players have won at least one game of bingo.
- According to latest figures over 3 million people now regularly play bingo in the UK at least twice a week.
- The national bingo game has produced three millionaire bingo winners in the last 6 months and this is largely due to the platinum jackpot that is now attached to the national bingo game.
- Glasgow has been hailed Britain’s luckiest place to play bingo for the second year on the trot after a spectacular 16 national bingo game wins were made in just the one bingo club.
- The national bingo game is the second largest controlled bingo game in the UK, with the national lottery being the largest.
- The total prize money that has been won since the National Bingo Game started in June 1986 currently stands at £990,690,321.
- Bingo got its present name in 1930 when an American called Edwin Lowe see a gap in the market for bingo and patented the name.
Bingo is the most social form of gaming to partake in and it is socially accepted around the world and although it has always been predominantly played by women players, more and more men seem to be delving into the online bingo world.
Online bingo revolutionised the way the game of bingo is played as it brought players the opportunity to play bingo whenever and wherever it suited them, as unlike the land based version of the bingo game online bingo can be played 24 hours a day 365 days a year from the comfort of your own home or even on the move from your mobile phone.
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