Online Bingo facts

The popularity of online bingo is reflected in the numbers of players now playing online and it provides some interesting facts and statistics.
It is estimated that there are 3 million players in the U.K. alone with between 500 and 600 trillion pounds sterling spent on online bingo tickets annually.
Bingo players under 50 years of age make up 90 percent of players. Players aged between 36 and 45 make up nearly 29 percent of players, those aged 46 to 55 24 percent. Surprisingly, 9.8 percent are 56 to 65 years olds and just 2.3 percent are aged over 66.
There are an estimated 357 online sites operating internationally with 250 of those being U.K. sites. In 1999 there were only five online bingo sites operating.
The majority of revenue (85 percent) is from U.S. based players and Japan actually ranks second to the U.S. in the number of players online. Global Betting and Gaming Consultants estimate gross gaming yields will be $1 billion by 2010, double what it was in 2006.
The first online bingo site was Bingo Zone in 1996. Free games were not available until Bingo Blitz offered Uproar in 1998.
Bingo advertisements tend to target women in the 35 to 54 year old demographic as 85 percent of players are usually women.
There are 1,474,200 possible unique Bingo Card combinations in a traditional game of 75 ball bingo compared to 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 on a Bingo Ticket in a game of 90 ball bingo.
An average bingo game will last between 3 and 5 minutes including validation time of 30 seconds.
The name of the game actually came about by accident when a female player called out “Bingo!” instead of “Beano!” Beans were once used to cover numbers when they were called.

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