Online bingo has become enormously popular in the last few years. It was played in spacious halls in the past; now it has moved on to the internet. A large number of online bingo games sites have emerged, and the numbers are increasing all the time.

When an online bingo game has been chosen and play starts, gamers have to choose from a variety of cards they are offered. The player clicks on the card he wants and clicks "buy". A countdown to the start is shown while the player reads about the rules and regulations and the ways of winning.

Online bingo has the additional highly convenient feature of auto play. This means that when a player starts a game, the auto play feature gets turned on automatically, so the player's cards get automatically updated as the numbers are called.

An attractive feature of online bingo is the big cash prizes the gamers have a chance of winning while they play their favorite game. A number of cash jackpots are offered in online bingo; these are decided on the basis of the numbers of people buying the cards. The more the number of players in an online bingo game, the larger is the size of the jackpots. So, the jackpot gets bigger every time a new player joins the online game. The prize gets divided if two players win. Many of the online bingo sites offer a jackpot game on all days of the week. Then there are the jackpots that build up over time, and these are won by a player winning a game in a particular period. Many online bingo websites offer jackpot games for cash or free bingo games.

When a player wins a big sum of money at an online bingo site, sometimes the prize amount is deposited into his account over a period of time in a structured manner.

Of course, an online bingo jackpot is much harder to win compared to the normal bingo prizes in the regular games. For one thing, a much larger number of people will be playing the game (because of the attraction of the jackpot), or, a special event has to take place to trigger the jackpot. So although the jackpot amount is much bigger than the normal prizes, the chance of hitting a jackpot is also much lower.

But the uncertainty of winning a jackpot only serves to increase its attraction among the devotees of online bingo.