Free Bingo Money ?Bingo Bonuses Explained

Due to the rapid growth of online bingo, bingo sites are laterally fighting against themselves for your custom. The fighting in real terms comes in the form of free money which the sites use to tempt you to play on their site. This though comes in many forms and in some case is not what it seems. Let抯 break down these offers so you have a better understanding of how these offers work.

The best type of offer that an online bingo site may offer you is a straight no deposit bonus. These vary in the actual amount from 1 to 20 pounds and do not require you to make any deposit at all. Some of the sites though that do offer you these types of offers will though request that you register a credit card. This is of course for age verification as bingo is a form of gambling and UK law states that the minimum age for partaking in any form of gambling is 18. Most though do not request that you register a credit or debit card.

The next form of bonus at first seems to offer a no deposit bonus but on further inspection this is not the case. The site may well advertise ?0 free but it order to claim the free money you will have to make a small deposit of around 5 to 10 pounds. Other variation of this type of bonus is a release type bonus. The site will offer you 20 pounds free if you deposit let抯 say 5 pounds but the actual 20 pounds will only be released to your account after you have played a predetermined amount of games. Some of these offer will require you to make another deposit for the bonus is released into your account.

Another type of bonus is a deposit bonus or a matched bonus. In simple terms a online bingo site will match your first deposit amount up to a certain amount. They may state that they will offer you a 100% bonus up to ?00. This means any amount you deposit up to ?00 the site will add to your account the same amount. So deposit ?00 and they will add to your account another ?00. Some sites will make the first deposit bonus very tempting with a 200% bonus. So deposit ?00 and have an extra ?00 added to your account. Of course there are terms and conditions attached to this bonus otherwise you could simply deposit ?00 and withdraw ?00. Again the site will specify that you can抰 withdraw any amount until you have played a predetermined amount of games.

You will find hundreds of affiliate sites on the internet which list all the different type of bonuses available for the major online sites. The best of these sites will also give details of the different bonuses available for each site and in many cases you will get a better deal from the affiliate sites than from the actual online bingo site.

For your own peace of mind though make sure before you sign up to any online bingo site read the sites terms and conditions.