Bingo For American Players

The sudden increase in the online bingo trade has seen a particular augmentation in sites targeted at American bingo players. There are currently several US targeted online bingo rooms. These sites are not automatically US owned, based, or licensed, but they are calculated purposely to appeal to American bingo players and capture the growing US online bingo marketplace.

So what is the difference between a US site and any alternative? Well there are a number of noteworthy qualities that distance them from others, but there is no uniformity to this and any particular site may in fact have very few of these qualities.

Here is our outline of things you can expect to find:

1) They are targeted towards the US market. Additionally, because they are US sites, of course, most of the players are from the US! Therefore, you will be playing against, and more crucially, chatting to, fellow Americans.

2) Game play is in $. That means the prizes, card prices, bonuses and so on are shown in dollars and cents, rather than dollars and cents.

3) Banking transactions are usually in dollars. You can purchase using $ and your payments will be made in $. Sites may also offer the option of using UK pounds or Euros, but the default will generally be Dollars.

4) They tend to accept the common US payment options; Visa and MasterCard, for example.

5) The sites may have American chat hosts, recruited from, and living in, America. This means that the chat and general culture in the chat rooms is geared towards American players.

6) The branding on many of the sites has a deliberately created American feel. You will frequently see pictures of the Empire States Building, Las Vegas, and Atlantic City. Although the sites do not have American addresses.   

7) They may offer UK style 90-ball bingo games, but also the American 75-ball game. Most online bingo is the 75-ball version, using 5x5 cards, and this is the game traditionally played in the US. The 90-ball version has 90 balls and the cards have only 15 numbers. The majority of online bingo sites are able to offer both the 75-ball and 90-ball games, depending on what type of gaming software they run on.   

8) If you are fortunate, the customer support service will also be in the US. Although, this is not constantly the case, and many only have an email address - so their service employees might be anywhere.

9) The site's owners may be a US company. The owners are responsible for the product and marketing of their bingo site. They are very seldom directly involved in running the actual bingo games. The 'Operator' does this job, and they could be situated anywhere in the world. Indeed, we have only been able to find ONE site that actually operates its bingo games within the US.

10) No bingo sites are licensed in the US or a country governed by US laws because the legislation in the US makes this illegal. However, most of the US bingo halls are actually licensed in countries unrelated to America.

Of all these factors, the only ones you will be certain to find are the first two; marketing that says they are a US Bingo Hall - and so attracts US players - and the fact that dollars are used on the site. All the other features are very hit and miss, so if any of them are particularly important to you as a player you will need to check out the bingo hall to make sure you are actually going to get these benefits.

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