Team Bingo

Throughout the long and very colourful history of the game of bingo, it has managed to survive in its simplicity, while at the same time reincarnate itself in many varied and innovative ways. The game of bingo has been used to fund a war torn country, when it was initially introduced after the reunification of Italy, it has been used as a teaching aid in Europe to teach children mathematical skills, it is still used in Japan to teach children elementary English skills. Bingo has been used to raise funds for all kinds of charities, church spires the elderly and cancer victims. The game in the UK is giving away such huge amounts in cash prizes so as to make life changing differences in peoples lives and now with online bingo there are all sorts of innovations that are coming about to keep the game alive and make it ever more interesting. One of the fairly new developments is online team bingo.

The theory behind online team bingo is that online bingo players play as a team as well as individuals, and at this point in time team bingo is not available at all bingo clubs but is increasing in popularity. There are a few online bingo operators who offer the game and one of them is Foxy Bingo, a very popular UK online bingo site. The rules and regulation of online team bingo will definitely vary from site to site, but because of the simplicity of the game itself, this makes very little difference to the enjoyment of the actual game.

• An online player will invite a group of friends and together they will form a team. They will give their team a name, I don’t know? It could be anything as long as it is not offensive, perhaps if playing on Foxy “Foxies Midnight Vixens”. Something fun and catchy! The team registers with the bingo club and they are set to play online team bingo.
• The members of the team will play as normal and keep any prize money they might win along the way, usually at a specified time, say, the end of the month, the amount of points the team has amassed is added up and qualifying wins are accounted for under the rules of the competition. It might be that only a full house win will be counted as a qualifying win or any other criteria, but these are specified in the rules of the competition.
• Once the winning points of all of the participating teams have been added, prizes are given to the winning online bingo team and often the runners up also receive something. The rewards for playing online team bingo could be cash prizes, points or something even more tangible, like a day at the spa for the team.

The main advantage to playing online team bingo is that it magnifies the social aspect of the game, bingo is after all a social game. You work with your team members towards a common goal and are genuinely delighted when one of your team members wins.