Your first step to playing online Bingo is to choose a trusted site at which to play. Online Bingo is becoming increasingly popular with the hundreds of online Bingo sites completing for your membership. To attract new players, most sites will offer a sign up bonus or even free cash. These sites are will also offer regular bonuses to their existing members. Look to play at sites with the best bonus programs as you can pretty much double your playing money.

Once you have selected a Bingo site, you will usually have to download and install the Bingo interface on your computer. To do this, follow the instructions on the site that you are about to join as the process may vary from one site to another. The software allows to 'enter' the Bingo hall where you can buy cards, play games and chat to other players.

Online games are exactly the same as those games played in traditional offline Bingo halls with both 75 ball and 90 ball games available as well as a variety of different card patterns. The balls are randomly drawn and called out, so make sure the sound on your computer is turned on. The drawn number is then displayed on the Bingo Board where remains visible for the rest of the game. You are normally given a few seconds to locate the number on your bingo cards and mark them off. Online Bingo games commonly offer an 'auto-Bingo' or 'auto-dauber' option that will ensure that you never miss a Bingo. Use this feature to make sure that you don't miss your chance of winning a jackpot, however, it does take some of the fun out of the game.

When playing online bingo, your bingo cards are randomly selected for you by the computer, though some online bingo sites allow you to change your cards if you don’t like them. Statistically all cards have the same chance of winning but if you have some lucky numbers, you might as well play cards on which they appear.

Most bingo sites allow you to choose the number of cards you would like to play for each game of bingo. The game pattern is also displayed on your screen, so you know which bingo pattern you must complete to win the game. Some patterns are easy to complete, which will make for a very short game and lower jackpots. Others are more difficult and will take many calls to complete. The most common bingo patterns are straight lines in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction.

Typical bingo cards have five rows and columns, thus providing 25 spaces, with a random selection of numbers printed on it. Furthermore, a number can appear only once on a single card.

The columns are labeled from left to right with the letters: 'B', 'I', 'N', 'G', 'O'. With one exception (the center space is "free") the spaces in the card are assigned values as follows:

  'B' column contains numbers from 1 - 15.
  'I' column contains numbers from 16 - 30.
  'N' column contains numbers from 31 - 45.
  'G' column contains a number from 46 - 60.
  'O' column contains a number from 61 - 75.

If you are the first to complete the numbers in a pattern according to the rules of the particular game, you call "Bingo!" by clicking on the Bingo button within the software and win the prize for the game. There are many common Bingo patterns that may be used, so pay close attention to the pattern in effect for your game.

Play continues until one or more players are the first to complete the bingo pattern. The game then stops until the numbers are verified. If there is more than one simultaneous winner, the winners split the prize or jackpot.