Online Bingo a Trend in the UK

In the UK online bingo has become one of the most appealing ways to pass the time and even possibly make some money. Currently, the only gambling based game that surpasses the game of bingo is the state run national lottery. Bingo has not only become more popular online, but also in person.

In 1986 the UK officially initiated the national bingo game in which every where in the country people are playing in the same game of bingo, which can net very large sums of pounds. Besides the land based popularity spike that bingo has experienced in the last few decades, the internet has even further spread the game into the top bracket of internet games in the UK.

One reason why the game has potentially become more popular is the increasing number of young people who partake in online bingo games. Traditionally bingo has been a geriatric game played as a fund raiser for local Catholic Churches that many of the community’s elderly participated in. However, in the UK the demographic that seems to be drawn to online bingo is quite the opposite of the traditional one associated with land based bingo.

Most of the people in the UK who play online bingo are well below the age of fifty and most of them are between the ages of twenty and twenty five. A majority of those players happens to be female with a smaller contingent of men playing for keeps and for free in online bingo games.