For many years running the game of bingo was believed to be the sole domain of women players. This is true to some extent but in the last few years the game has seen more and more men players joining in to play bingo. At the last estimate it was found that 10 percent of the population are women players while 5 percent of the population who play bingo are men. These figures sometimes seem unrealistic with so many bingo halls and online bingo sites around and the great amount of advertising done on bingo by the television channels and internet sites.
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The game had a traditional group of old ladies who were called as the Blue-Rinse Brigade. They visited the local bingo halls regularly to play bingo whenever they got the chance to do so. But as the game became modern, the demography of the players started to change from the aged to players from different age groups and backgrounds.
Women players were especially attracted by the game of bingo and 90 percent of the players in the bingo halls are sometimes women. On the other hand online bingo has a ratio of 80:20 of women players to men. From these figures it is clear that men do love to play bingo but only when they have the privacy offered by their homes to play in.
The women players can be normally divided into two categories. The first group comprises of women who have a formal university education. The second group comprises of women who have children. It is interesting to note that 30 per cent of the 2.72 million women players are educated and have university degrees while 50 percent of them have children.
When a no smoking ban was implemented in the bingo halls of UK, it had a huge repercussion on the players who came to the bingo halls as almost 60 percent of players were smokers. A large number of players who came regularly to the bingo halls to play bingo and enjoy their smoke at the same time found it very difficult to play without being able to smoke. This caused a fall in the number of players who used to frequent the bingo halls earlier. The players who stopped visiting the bingo halls started playing on the online bingo sites as now they could smoke to their utmost satisfaction while enjoying their afternoons and evenings with a game of bingo sitting surrounded by homely comforts.
The difference in the average age of the women players is 11 years where the 47 years is the average for women players and 36 years is the average age of the men players.
As per the above statistics women still hold the majority over the men in the bingo world. The players who play bingo on the internet are however quite younger on an average. It can be easily seen that online bingo is considered as an in thing by the modern players. The gaming sites on the social networks will help the game of bingo to spread more and more among the people of this world. The figures show that the popularity of the game of bingo has a further chance of growing which comes as a great bit of news to both the operators of the online bingo sites and the players also.
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