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INTERNET BINGO
What’s the average bingo player look like? I already have a picture in my head, the classic and completely stereotyped bingo player . They pull their 1987 Chevy Celebrity up to the bingo hall, the local church. It’s Tuesday or Wednesday, bingo night. The cars was once a light blue, but now it’s a mix of fade, rust and dent marks, possibly kick marks from nights when the bingo cards were one number away from the blackout jackpot. The car door opens and smoke fills the air outside the bingo hall. The bingo player smokes cigarettes with the car window up and the last whining threats of air conditioning running full blast. It’s a woman because women love the bingo. The cigarette is a 100, a long white extension of her mouth, Benson & Hedges or Virginia Slim, and for bingo night she always brings an extra pack. She’s older, 50+, and as she leans forward to get her lucky bingo dauber from her purse you can see the strange blue tint of her hair, almost matching the cars faded metallic color, and the four or five pink curlers she forgot to take out. When she purchases bingo cards she wants seven exactly. “But, Ma’am, you can get eight bingo cards for $5.” She just stares at the young bingo volunteer. “That will be $7 Ma’am, one dollar per bingo card.” At the table she smokes, daubs, covers her bingo cards and looks at other peoples. A spinster, an angry old woman, all she has is bingo night, a stereotype, but nothing more than an old stereotype of a game that will never go out of date.
The real average bingo player? With so many ways to play bingo there really is no one stereotype. Polls have shown that bingo draws just as much of a young audience as it does older people. 30% of people that play bingo are said to be under the age of 35. Internet bingo has been a big part of drawing younger people to the game. The Internet, a relatively new toy and form of communication, has brought the almost 500-year old game of bingo back to life.
What’s the new average internet bingo player look like? Well, the average internet bingo player is still female. There are over 2.5 million females who play bingo regularly and that includes all forms of bingo, but internet bingo? Well she’s probably not old, as a matter of stereotype, to get online to play internet bingo she’s got to be pretty young, let’s say 24. Her hair flows down to the keyboard, blonde, brunette or auburn, just barely covering her tight tank top as she leans forward to mark her bingo cards with the mouse. And then she leans back and giggles, tossing her hair sending it over her shoulder and laughing at the humorous remarks coming from the bingo room’s chat room. She smiles brightly, internet bingo makes women happy, plays with her hair and straightens her tight jean shorts trying to think of something to write to her friend who’s playing internet bingo with her. What’s her friend, another average internet bingo player, look like? Well she’s also 24, blonde, brunette or auburn, but she’s wearing a bikini having just come in from sunbathing to play internet bingo with her best friend. Her skin is bronze, her bathing suit no bigger than a mouse’s cord and her bingo cards fill up the screen…
What’s the average young male waiting for?
With internet bingo the old stereotypes of a
bingo player are gone forever. Anyone can log onto the net and play. One site that stands out is
www.bingohouse.com. This site has easy registration and instructions, and safe and secure transactions. If you are a beginner you can play for free and cash in on bonus bucks or if you’re in the chat room you can win free prizes. You can win $45.00 to $10,000.00 and can play 3 to 100 cards at a time. You may chat with other players in real time and the chat room leaders will make sure the conversation is civil and nonoffensive. There is a new game every six minutes and you can play many of these at once. You may be eligible for bonus bucks by, opening a new account, introducing friends to the site, winning contests, or being in a chat room and winning special prizes. No matter whay stereotype you fit bingohouse is the best site to play online bingo.
