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Bingo Brown Stories by Betsy Byars
Bingo Brown is a character in a series of children's books by the American storyteller, Betsy Byars. Betsy has given us some information about the stories and about Bingo's inspiration on her own website:
Bingo the Novel by Rita Mae Brown
Rita Mae Brown is a well-known author, whose most famous novel is probably Rubyfruit Jungle - a 1973 novel that caused a stir with its explicit lesbianism. The novel Bingo was released in 1988, and is a sequel to the 1979 novel, Six of One....
Bingo in Other Countries - Europe
As we all know, bingo is played around the world, with the online version becoming increasingly popular in recent years. It's especially in the UK, though, that online bingo has really made its mark, accounting for the vast majority of bingo games that are played throughout the country....
Other Uses of the Word Bingo - The Bingo Palace Novel
We're very proud of our name here at BingoPalace, and were delighted to see that "The Bingo Palace" is also the name of a novel by the acclaimed American author, Louise Erdrich. The novel was originally released in 1994, and was reissued in paperback 10 years later. Here's some information about both the story and the author....
Other Uses of the Word Bingo - Bingo Little from Jeeves and Wooster
Created by PG Wodehouse in the classic series of comic stories featuring the eponymous BertieWooster and his manservant, Jeeves, the character of Bingo Little appears in many of the stories, with several actually bearing his name in their title...
Online Bingo Tips - When to Play
Scientific research into the playing of online bingo has thrown up some interesting facts regarding the best times to play. These are essentially based on 2 factors, could be the number of people playing online at the same time...
Another Use of the Word Bingo - US Sportsmen
Perhaps surprisingly, there have been two well-known American sports players with the first name "Bingo". Real name Elwood, "Bingo" was a nickname given to this successful baseball player, born in 1889. DeMoss begain his baseball career playing for the Topeka Giants, based in Kansas, where he was born. Due to the era...
Another Use of the Word Bingo - Scrabble
Bingo players are known to be quite clever, and it's no surprise that they also like to play word games, suchas the extremely popular and addictive game, Scrabble. This is a game that was developed in 1938 by an American architect, Alfred Mosher Butts. Everyone will be aware of the game, but it's interesting to look at some of its history...
Offline Bingo Players Characteristics
Following on from our look at what sort of things make up the average online bingo player, we've also put together some info about the typical "real world" bingo fan. Maybe you or someone you know could be described like this...
Online Bingo Players Characteristics
We've got a lot of experience with internet bingo, and have come across many thousands of online bingo players as a result. So we thought it would be fun to put together some info on the general characteristics of the people that enjoy our favourite game....
Bingo! the album by The Steve Miller Band
It's surprising how many different new uses there are for the word "bingo". Obviously, it's a fairly generic term that sounds good, so people are going to use it for multiple purposes, but we're still pleased to come up with new variations on an ongoing basis, the latest of which is going to be the new album by The Steve Miller Band....
Other Uses of the word Bingo - Bingo the Play
Continuing our look at some uses of the word "bingo", there´s a famous play by Edward Bond that is currently enjoying a revival on stage in Chichester. It´s not a play we were particularly familiar with, but we've researched it and can give you an overview and outline of its plot here....
Astrological Traits - Pisces
Pisces is a Water sign. Pisceans are extremely spiritual, with their thinking often being dominated by the ethereal and other-worldly, rather than the immediate and physical reality. You're well-known for your intuition ...
Astrological Traits - Aquarius
Aquarius is an Air sign. An Aquarian will generally possess a keen intellect, and have a very inquiring and insightful mind. This can come across as you being scientific without being emotional...
Astrological Traits - Capricorn
Capricorn is one of the Earth signs. Despite a general down to earth nature, a Capricorn will be a natural leader and a born organiser. Power will be very important to you, whether in a wider sense or simply close to home. With this...
Astrological Traits - Sagittarius
Sagittarius is one of the zodiac's Fire signs. If you're a Sagittarius, you'll be naturally inclined towards the metaphysical side of things, and will have a lot of interest in our spiritual nature. You are also likely to believe in karma or fate...
Astrological Traits - Scorpio
Scorpio is another of the Water signs. Like running water, Scorpions are agents of change and can have a profound effect on everyone and everything they come into contact with. As a Scorpio, you will often come across as being quite insular...
Astrological Traits - Libra
Libra is an Air sign. Librans are great at being the "glue" that binds groups of people together. As a Libran, you will quite often be the focal point for your group of friends, and are highly regarded by all those who know you. Healthwise,
Astrological Traits - Virgo
Virgo is another of the Earth signs. As a Virgo, you'll generally be in good health or related to health in some way (perhaps in the medical profession or similar?). You're a perfectionist,...
Astrological Traits - Leo
Leo is another Fire sign. As a bingo enthusiast Leo, you can often appear is if you feel you're a cut above the rest of us, but this is mainly down to your unshakeable belief in your own destiny. This makes you...
Astrological Traits - Cancer
Cancer is the first of the Water signs. Cancerians are much more ruled by their hearts than their heads. You are far more likely to trust your "inner voice" than any appeal to logic or reason, and feel yourself to be in tune with what...
Astrological Traits - Gemini
Gemini is an Air sign. Geminis are great at passing on information, which is obviously a useful trait for when you're playing online bingo! This means that Geminis often make good teachers or other roles that require you to impart knowledge....
Astrological Traits - Taurus
Taurus is an Earth sign. Taurean bingo-players can be very energetic, but hate doing things for their own sake, and would rather know there was going to be a valuable and useful outcome to their activity ...
Astrological Traits - Aries
Our regular blog posts on the forthcoming horoscope predictions - as well as our link with a horoscope site - are proving very popular, so we thought we'd expand things a little, and get our astrologer to give you some info about each of the star signs and their personality traits: ...
Other Uses of Word Bingo
Whilst our own favourite use of the word bingo is obviously the one this site is dedicated to, during our research into different aspects of the game, we keep coming across different uses for the word...
Online Bingo versus Other Lottery Games
Bingo is obviously a type of lottery game, given some of the standard definitions for the word "lottery":
"A means of raising money by selling numbered tickets and giving prizes to the holders of numbers drawn at random"
"An enterprise, process etc. whose success is governed by chance"
- both from the Concise Oxford English Dictionary ...
Online Bingo versus Offline Bingo
You wouldn't be here at our site if you didn't love playing online bingo - as do millions of others throughout the UK and around the world. So what is it specifically that attracts people to play bingo on their computer, rather than in a bingo hall? We've been asking some of our fans and players over the years...
Random Number Generator for Online Bingo
One of the questions we get asked most often is how the numbers are generated for our bingo games. The short answer to this is we use a particular type of software that generates the numbers in a random fashion. For the longer answer - touching on some reasonably complex mathematical theories...
A History of Bingo
In common with many popular games, the history of bingo isn't very clearly defined, and has no definitive set of events that led to its current incarnation. Obviously our favourite version, online bingo, only came about with the rise of the internet from around 1995 onwards. But it's more difficult to determine where the game actually comes from. Here's a version of bingo's history that is generally accepted to be accurate by games historians...
How to Play Bingo
There are many different types of bingo game you can play both online and offline. We offer 2 variations in terms of the number of balls (numbers) in the game - 75 balls and 90 balls. The games themselves can be based on the traditional full house version, or can be based on crossing off your numbers in specified patterns...

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