{"id":7370,"date":"2024-01-10T11:32:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newbingosites.co\/?page_id=7370"},"modified":"2024-01-10T11:32:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T11:32:18","slug":"the-national-bingo-game-what-is-it-and-can-you-play-online","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newbingosites.co\/articles\/the-national-bingo-game-what-is-it-and-can-you-play-online\/","title":{"rendered":"The National Bingo Game: What is it and Can You Play Online?"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you are primarily an online bingo player, then you may not even have heard of the National Bingo Game, let alone know what it is or how it works.<\/p>\n
For anyone who frequents their local bingo hall though, it will be very familiar to you, and probably one of the main reasons you go to the bingo club in the first place.<\/p>\n
Everybody knows that the prizes at bingo aren’t as eye catching as they are in other gambling games. Us players don’t mind that because money isn’t the main reason for playing really, but we certainly wouldn’t complain if the game remained the same but the prizes were bigger, would we?<\/p>\n
Well, the National Bingo Game is about the biggest game you can win in the world of bingo, offering a top prize of \u00a350,000 as well as smaller prizes and club prizes.<\/p>\n
But what is it, and how does it work? You online only bingo fans might even be wondering if it is possible to play online, which is a valid question, and one that actually has a slightly ambiguous answer.<\/p>\n
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For most of a bingo session, players will be up against the other people in their bingo club, playing for small but nice prizes like \u00a350 or \u00a3100.<\/p>\n
However, every bingo session also includes the National Game, where all the clubs around the country who are taking part (which is most of them) are linked together, and play the same numbers for the same big prize.<\/p>\n
This one is a 90 ball, full house only game, so there are no prizes for getting a line or two lines.<\/p>\n
One caller at one club is nominated to call the game, and their calls are broadcast to every bingo hall in the country as the players mark off their cards, until a claim is made, at which point the\u00a0local<\/em> caller in the same bingo hall as the winner stops the game and the numbers are checked.<\/p>\n So it’s just one big massive game the whole country play together.<\/p>\n Now obviously, with bingo the more people that play the bigger the prize, so the National Game has a lot of prize money to be won.<\/p>\n The prize breakdown works like this:<\/p>\n There are also club prizes that vary depending on where you are playing, and these are given out to the first person in each club to get a full house once the linked game is over.<\/p>\n As you can understand, this is the highlight of many player’s bingo session, because the potential for large payouts is very exciting and there is an extra chance to win something even after the main game is over.<\/p>\n You might think that no one ever wins the big money, but that top prize was won 55 times in 2023, which is more than once per week, and that was a lean year by comparison too.<\/p>\n\n
Can You Play the National Bingo Game Online?<\/h2>\n