ONLINE BINGO GUIDE

Welcome to the best online bingo guide on the web! Here you will get the history of bingo, how to play bingo and all the bingo chat acronyms that you will need to know when you play online bingo. We recommend that you bookmark our site so that you can refer to it when needed.

Bingo History
Bingo is relatively new in terms of its history in relation to other gambling games. Bingo's history started in France from a French lotto player who created an alternative version of the lottery. The first bingo version had 3 horizontal rows and 9 vertical rows with numbered and blank squares placed randomly. The columns were divided into groups of 10 numbers: 1-10, 11-20, and all the way up to 90. Chips were used as bingo balls, and were taken out of a sac by the bingo caller. Up until recently, bingo was never known by its name bingo. It was known as a lotto game. The name of bingo came by accident through the slip of the tongue when a woman shouted in excitement 'Bingo' instead of the usual 'Beano' word (commonly used during that time).

How To Play Bingo
To play bingo is very easy and doesn’t take much brains to learn how to play it. This, as well as the excitement of it, is the reason why so many people play it. Each bingo player buys one or more bingo cards. A caller randomly picks the numbers (75 or 90) and as the numbers are called out, all of the players check their card(s) to see if they have the numbers. If the players have the called numbers, the numbers are then marked off (daubed). The first player to get a card, pattern of lines or a line where all of the numbers have been called, then shouts "bingo" and collects the winnings.

Below you will find all the bingo chat acronyms, courtesy of our online bingo guru, that you will probably use when you next login to play online bingo. Chatting with fellow bingo friends is great fun and is actually a great way of making new friends.

Bingo Chat Acronyms

10x – Thanks

2U2 - To you too

? - Please explain

?4U - Question for you

AAMOF - As a matter of fact

AFAIK - As far as I know

AFK - Away from keyboard

ASAP - As soon as possible

ASL - Age, sex, location?

ASLP - Age, sex, location, picture?

B4 - Before

B4N - Bye for now

BAC - Back at computer

BBIAB - Be back in a bit

BBL - Be back later

BC - Be cool

BF - Boyfriend

BFN - Bye for now

BOT - Back on topic...

BRB - Be right back

BRH - Be right here

BTDT - Been there, done that

BTW - By the way

CMIIW - Correct me if I'm wrong

CU - See you

CUL - Catch you later

CUL8R - See you later

CWOT - Complete waste of time

CYA - See ya

DIY - Do it yourself

EAK - Eating at keyboard

EOD - End of discussion

EOL - End of lecture

F - Female

F2F - Face to face

FCOL - For crying out loud!

FOCL - Falling off the chair laughing

FOFL - Falling on the floor laughing

FWIW - For what it's worth

FYI - For your information

G2G – Got to go

GAL - Get a life

GAS - salutations

GF - Girlfriend

GFN - Gone for now

GG - Good game

GJ - Good job