Bingo School: Tips for Choosing a Bingo Site
With the online bingo boom of the past several years there has been a frenzy of promotions rammed everywhere and anywhere, which has driven our choice of bingo sites based on promotions claiming the most bang for your buck. To put it bluntly that is wrong and any experienced bingo head will tell you that there’s more to a book than its cover.
When a player gets down to business and starts playing there are three core three elements that make them happy, whether or not they know it is another story. But the three key ingredients of a successful bingo site are game-play, value and prizes.
If we first focus on the game-play element it is clear that the bingo game software is the engine and heart behind satisfying game-play. But let’s not forget the all important community spirit such as number of players, quality of players and friendly chat hosts that also makes up for great game-play. The software element is pretty easy to judge as a lot of brands use customised versions of off the shelf bingo game software produced by a few software companies like Virtue Fusion, Dragonfish, Gamesys etc. If you are savvy enough there are a ton of bingo portals that will list bingo brands by the software they use so it’s no big deal to find for example a list of Virtue Fusion powered sites using Google. If you know the software you like then its one sure fire way to find a new bingo site you will be happy to play on and know your way around. Judging community spirit though is another ball game and can only use a tried and tested approach.
Next, getting our bingo hats on and looking for good value is all about getting the most fun or wins out of a bingo site for the least amount of money. This is a key area where bingo newcomers fail miserably. You might get £25 free from a £5 deposit but if the site hits you with 10x wagering requirements in the terms and conditions (that we all read!) then they might as well give you £3.00 free to play penny bingo all day long. Whereas a free £20 based on £10 deposit with no wagering requirements will leave you considerably better off should you win with your bonus money. If this has confused you then we recommend you learn what wagering requirements are. Further to that some bingo sites simply pay out better and hence have much more value. The bottom line is that sign up bonuses cannot measure the value of a site and if an offer seems too good to be true it probably is. Notice if you check out the biggest and most well established brands they very rarely have excessive sign up bonuses or free money but they do have good value and that’s why they are big names.
And last, prizes are what it’s all about; if you ever bought a lottery ticket you probably had some great thoughts about what you could do if you win. Those thoughts were probably worth every penny you paid even if you had virtually no chance of winning in the first place. It’s the same with bingo, if an operator can put up the dream of winning big then players will always have that feeling that they could one day strike it rich and that can be worth a little bit of anyone’s money. If a site sports a £100,000 progressive jackpot or some other big money prizes then their players have been blessed with a dream of getting rich and that makes all the difference when you play your humble game of bingo.
So to sum it all up a wise player ignore the initial sign up bonuses, checks out the software, finds a large community bingo site that have mega prizes on offer. It’s really that simple.
