Like many other games, bingo can now be played online. The concept of online bingo is similar to that of the real bingo played in halls. The winner of the game is the one who cuts off all the numbers given in a certain pattern on his ticket, before any of his fellow competitors. The pattern of numbers varies form one game to another. The different patterns that are used in the online bingo are blackout in which the whole card is filled with numbers; any one single line with numbers; numbers in the four corners of the card and even moving or rotating patterns. However, the last pattern is found only in the online version of the bingo. In the traditional game played in halls, it is difficult to use the moving or rotating patterns.

The enthusiasts can play online bingo from any corner of the world. Online bingo has mainly two versions, one version has cards with 24 numbers and 75 balls are used to select the lucky numbers, the other version has cards with 15 numbers and 90 balls those are used to select the lucky numbers. The former one actually is the US version of the game and the later one is the UK version. Generally a person can have more than 1 ticket but the terms change from site to site where online bingo is played, most sites impose a restriction on maximum number of tickets that a person can have while some sites allow innumerable tickets.

If you want to play online bingo, you will have to buy a set of cards that are generated indiscriminately by the computer. Most sites offer you a replacement of cards, if you did not like the cards for any reason. You can even keep aside some of you cards for consecutive games. If you play many cards at a time, you can use the auto daub option in the online bingo, the numbers on the cards will be stroked automatically with out any manual interference.

Different sites providing online bingo provide different features to help you play with huge number of cards. The different features are - the small card facility where in you can see 15 cards at a time in a screen, best card facility where in the cards that are place in a hierarchical way, catch up facility helps the players to mark off all the numbers that have been picked in the game.

The balls in online bingo are drawn arbitrarily and the numbers picked are actually emphasized on the number board or turn on the speakers to hear the numbers being called out.

Online bingo features an auto daub function as already discussed, which cuts off the drawn out numbers. If all the numbers of your card match the numbers being drawn, you can call out for bingo by clicking on the bingo tab. You can even use the ?auto bingo? function making it simpler, if you are playing with multiple cards. Once you make the genuine call, the game will be stopped and you will win a prize.