When it comes to online bingo everyone always envisions little old ladies playing bingo in a dusty church hall, rather than a sharp quick witted businessman or a brainy scholar playing bingo in their spare time. But nothing could be further from the truth when you look at the statistics for who is getting online and playing bingo. People young and old are getting in on the fun - and the past time is growing with popularity every single day - just look at how much it's advertised on TV nowadays - you'll rarely get the whole way through a commercial break without seeing at least one bingo advert! What's more, believe it or not, those who do play bingo are actually having a positive effect on brain development.

Playing online bingo can improve the metal capacity of players. So, the unjustified stereotype that it's just old biddies with nothing better to do with their time than get the dabber out and wait for their numbers to be called out is simply quite ridiculous. Playing bingo stimulates the brain no matter what age you are. So whilst you enjoy chatting with friends and meeting new people with the possibility of winning huge jackpots you can also feel happy in the fact that you are actually improving the health of your brain! The same way as playing Sudoku and solving crossword puzzles give your mind a workout, so does online bingo.

Conclusive tests have even been done on players' brains which have shown that they have improved memory and were able to retain more brain functions than those who don't play online bingo games. People may have accused online bingo players of being lazier because they play inside but actually these tests also proved that the players were able to focus better on tasks. This is due to the fact that when playing online you have to multifunction to an extent - you are watching the numbers whilst chatting with friends, glancing at that progressive bingo jackpot, watching out for opponents and could even be playing a mini slots game on the side too.

So although there may be other ways to keep that brain ticking over there is none so fun as playing online bingo and as well as it being healthy for your brain it can also be healthy for those bank balances too if you hit that massive jackpot!