Bingo, Versatile Bingo

Many people think of bingo as being a boring game that is played by little old ladies to win prizes like toasters and the like. This is completely untrue. Historically bingo has been used for many purposes and today in the UK the National bingo game pays out prizes in the form of life changing sums of money.

The game of bingo has been used to raise funds to build church halls and spires and help in many different charitable causes. Bingo has been used in the past to educate children in maths, biology, science and languages and in fact is still used today in Japan to teach grade school children the basics of English.

Bingo can be used to play games in the car when going on a long trip, stick a picture of various things you might see on a long car trip, such as cows, trains, tractors, farmers, sheep and churches on a piece of paper and give them to the kids, the first one to cross off all the pictures wins bingo.

There is even a bingo to be had when playing scrabble, want to know what a scrabble bingo is? It is when you can use all seven of your scrabble letters in one go. Bingo!