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Why Play Bingo?

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Published on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 14:20
Written by Super User
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The best way to play bingo is for fun. A recent survey suggests that around three million people play bingo each week in the UK. For many people Bingo is their favorite online and offline game. However Bingo can have an image of being unfashionable by non bingo players which is an unfair accusation.

Bingo shouldn't be dismissed - as it has been in the past. Apart from the fun of the game, some surprising new evidence has emerged from The Department of Psychology at Southampton University about some previously unknown benefits of playing Bingo.

The University has been testing bingo players' ability to juggle numbers. The tests took place over a year and came up with some interesting results. 112 people were put in 2 groups aged 18 to 40, and others were aged over 60. Half of each group had been playing bingo, and the other half had not.

The study has shown that bingo players were quicker and had greater accuracy than those who didn't play the game and in some jobs the groups were set; older players did better than their more youthful players.

Both younger and older players were able to achieve the same level of performance and age was not a barrier to the skill level in playing the game.

It seems that playing bingo can actually delay the decline of mental faculties such as speed, pattern recognition and accuracy. Games that use these parts of the brain help maintain your mental abilities and will keep your brain functioning in later life. So playing bingo might be a way of helping to keep the mind active as well as just being a lot of fun!