Forget same winners - Believe in luck in 2012

"I don't like the site anymore, it's always the same winners.". "It can't be right that this site allows the same winners to take the prizes again and again.". "This bingo site is fixed and a rip off, it's always the same winners."

These phrases and dozens like them crop up again and again in the WhichBingo reviews pages, many from people who may be visiting a new bingo site for the first time, but some from players who have been with the same site for many years. We believe that online bingo is totally fair and above board, or we wouldn't be bringing all the sites and their offers to our readers attention, but for some reason many people want to believe otherwise.

The basis of online bingo and its associated slots and instant games is just like the land based game in that the winners are decreed only by the order in which balls/numbers are produced by various tried and trusted and regularly monitored random number generators.

People don't seem to believe in random occurances and like to look for patterns. People in casinos do it at the roulette table, or with lottery numbers or with slot machines. Even tossing a coin has a totally random outcome, but some people will be sure they can see a pattern as to how that coin lands.

Online bingo players sometimes forget that in a 90 ball room for instance there may be 10 games an hour, that's 30 chances to win a prize in just that hour. Whether there are 30 people or 300 people in the room odds of each one winning will vary with how many tickets they hold. While someone with only one ticket will have very long odds of a win and someone who has maxed will have short odds it is quite possible for the person with one ticket to win. If the pattern of purchasing is repeated over one hour then it stands to reason the person with max tickets is more likely to win more often.

Once a name appears a few times in quick succession people will remember it, but there may in fact be big gaps between the wins. The player may spend lots of money over lots of games compared to other people, so again odds favour the brave.

However, for us the biggest clue that there is nothing sinister in seeing the same person winning quite a few times and accepting that they are having a run of good luck is the fact that it would not be down to individual bingo sites, but to the big software providers that operate the random number generators.

Remember, there can be hundreds of bingo sites using the same software and many even on the same network, like Dragonfish or Virtue Fusion. How would one site go about influencing those networked games in its favour so it was its players that kept winning. That would mean that all the others would go out of business.

Why would a software provider target all the winners at Ladbrokes Bingo over William Hill Bingo? Why would a player at Brits Bingo be favoured over Banjo Bingo? Or Virgin Bingo over Sky Bingo?

Even non networked sites like Wink Bingo and Diva Bingo have these accusations levelled at them, but some players live and breath their favourite sites and spend fortunes, so their names will become very familiar very quickly over players that come, play a little and leave.

Jackpotjoy and Sun Bingo take a particular mauling in this area, but again, what need do they have to try and influence the outcome of games? They would risk their licence and the money is being given away anyway, so they don't care who wins it - they are only interested in happy customers that keep coming back. Again it is those regular players whose names will become very familiar, very fast.

Why would a major software provider risk its licence in this way? Simple answer - it wouldn't.

It would also mean that there would be no point in any new bingo sites opening up as the big winners were always going to be on another site - that's not the way to build a loyal set of players.

Did you know that these sophisticated random number generators actually produce the sequence of numbers instantaneously at the beginning of each game? It is just the nature of bingo that means we want them shown gradually. That means there is no time for any system to work out who is playing, where they are playing and who might have the card that is 'supposed' to win.

As a nation we don't want to believe in blind luck for some reason, but it is a major factor in our everyday lives whether we like it or not and it is the same with online bingo. We have to believe that if we play long enough then one day we will be lucky enought to see that big progressive jackpot come our way.

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