Bingo Game Strategies

The simple game of BINGO has increasingly become a household word for many. With the constantly growing popularity of online bingo using your personal computer, the joy of the game has stretched its arms worldwide. More people play online bingo now than land bingo as it is so easily accessible from the comforts of home. Just open up the internet and type BINGO into your search box and just look at all the different bingo sites that are available to play at. Yes, this is a bit overwhelming. A lot more difficult than playing bingo even. Besides the choice of where to play bingo, deposit bonuses, auto daub or manual daub, the color of your dauber even in some cases, bingo players often wonder, “How many cards should I buy?” I am here to try to help.

There are numerous methods to purchasing bingo cards. Most online bingo sites offer auto purchase, prebuy and buy cards as each game is about to begin.

Auto purchase requires the online bingo player to log into their account and set up their auto purchase to purchase x amount of cards for x amount of games at x amount per card. This option is very useful for the bingo player that does not want to forget to buy cards or is going to be away from their computer.

Pre-purchasing is done much like auto purchase except the bingo player is prebuying cards for specific games. Most online bingo sites will give the bingo player a list of upcoming bingo games with the amount per card and the time at which the game will be played. This option is very useful for the bingo player that wants to target specific patterns that they wish to play such as coveralls and promotional games.

The last option is to buy cards each game as it is about to play. Many online bingo players use this option as they like to change their card counts each game and at some online bingo sites, they can choose which cards they wish to play from a deck of cards.

With online bingo, the choices are wide and varied. Some online bingo sites, as mentioned above, will allow a player to choose their own cards. Some online bingo sites will allow the bingo player to have the same deck of cards each game without varying the numbers on the cards. If an online bingo site offers this option, they will also offer the option to get NEW cards each game as well or to change the numbers on their cards. Many online bingo players like this option as they feel if they have a good deck, they can keep it.

Other online bingo sites will change the deck of cards every single game so that a new set of cards, per player, is in play each and every game. Again, many online bingo players like these options as well as they feel it keeps the game fair across the board.

Now, for some bingo player strategies. It’s all the luck of the draw if you ask me but many players feel otherwise. I recently took a survey of online bingo players to find the following:

38% of the online bingo players surveyed stated that they have their best luck with playing a different amount of cards each game. They play more cards based on the amount of the prize.

25% of the online bingo players surveyed stated that they set their auto bingo to play the minimum amount of cards for their entire session. They felt that they spend less this way and when they win, their profit margin is higher

17% of the online bingo player’s survey stated that they will play the maximum amount of cards allowed. They felt that their odds were increased with the more cards that they play.

20% of the online bingo players surveyed stated that they do not have a method to their purchasing behaviors. Some did state that they will only play an exact amount in order to receive bonus cards. Example, buy 5 cards get 2 free.

As you can see above, there are a wide variety of purchasing behaviors. If you look at the odds, it is obvious that the more cards you play, the better the odds are of winning however, if you don’t win, the odds of your account decreasing rapidly is high as well.

Personally, I am a 10% kind of girl. I will spend 10% of the current prize in purchasing cards. Example, if the prize is $50.00, I will spend $5.00 on purchasing cards. Does this work? It all depends on the luck of the draw.