If you only have a few minutes, speed bingo may be just the type of online bingo for you to look into.
It might sound strange for some people to want to play speed bingo. Isn’t real bingo fast enough as it is? For those who are semi-professional online bingo players speed bingo. In normal bingo, numbers are called every two to three seconds; in speed bingo, numbers are called every second that goes by. The average game of speed bingo can be done in just over half a minute, something that some people can appreciate and others won’t be able to get with.
Check Your Reaction Time
Your reaction time is one thing that can make a huge difference when it comes to whether or not you will be able to get with the new speed bingo trend. Some people take long enough to find a number when they have two to three seconds to do so. If this sounds like you, speed bingo may cause for you to just be left in the dust and possibly miss out on a winning combo.
If You Are Short on Time Anyway
If you are short on time anyway, speed bingo may be one of those things you should try out. Some people are addicted to online bingo but can’t seem to find the time to play. If this is the case, speed bingo is a great thing to get into. You can fit double the amount of games into a normal slot of time, increasing your chances of winning if you are playing for a jackpot. While you may be able to monitor fewer cards at the same time, such is the case with everyone else in the game keeping your chances of a win better than or at least equal to a traditional game of online bingo.
If You Are Quick On the Uptake
If you are quick to learn new things and have quick eyes and hands, online bingo with a bit of speed added in may be a good idea for you. The regular pace of bingo may be just too slow for some people, who find the pace of waiting around for the next ball to be called too slow. With speed bingo, you can keep up with the pace of life-really, really fast.
Speed bingo is the new thing when it comes to gaming online. If you like bingo and you like to do things fast, you may want to check out this new revolution in online bingo.
By: Gevie Sanchez
Most people think of bingo as a purely social or leisure activity, but nowadays variants of the game are also being used for serious educational purposes. Many K-12 teachers have introduced bingo into their lessons, and are using the game to assist them in teaching a wide variety of different subjects including English, foreign languages and math.
In educational variants of bingo, the teacher plays the part of the bingo caller, and the students are each given a bingo card (although you can also put students into groups if you want). Generally speaking, the educational versions of bingo are played according to roughly the same rules as the standard game, although in some cases it may be necessary to tweak the game mechanics somewhat. What does change however, is that special bingo cards are used – these contain items selected by the teacher and prepared in advance of class (this doesn’t have to be a big job, as with the help of a computer and some bingo card maker software, it’s easy to print as many custom bingo cards as you want).
Here are some ideas for using bingo in lessons:
* Bingo can be used to help teach reading an English. Bingo cards might be printed with letters or words, and students might be required to find the letter that begins the teacher’s bingo call (phonemic awareness bingo), that is the sight word read out by the teacher (sight word bingo), that matches a definition given by the teacher (vocabulary bingo), or matches a part of speech clue given by the teacher, such as “an adjective beginning with P” (parts of speech bingo).
* Bingo can be used to help teach math. In this case the bingo cards can be printed with numbers (although generally not the usual bingo numbers) or with math problems. In the latter case, students must not only check off squares on their bingo cards, must write in the correct answer to each square. Some math topics that could be covered in this way include addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (for example, “find the square that contains six times five”), fractions and decimals (”find the square containing three quarters” in response to which students need to locate the square containing “0.75″, etc.), and rounding (”find the square containing two point eight rounded to the nearest whole number”).
* In French, German, Spanish and other language classes, bingo cards can be printed with words chosen from that language, which students must match up to English words read out by the teacher. You can also do this the other way round, so students must English words to foreign language bingo calls made by the teacher. Or, in the case of more advanced students, why not try simply playing the whole game in the particular foreign language?
* The idea of the teacher giving clues as bingo calls and students being required to find matches can also be applied to teaching key facts in other subjects whether that be history, geography or science. The only limit really is the teacher’s imagination.
By: Sunil Tanna
