We hear the same thing said time and again that playing bingo is good for the elderly. It keeps coming up in the news and it is always good to reiterate the strong points for playing bingo, particularly if it is good for people.

Playing bingo in the UK is one of the most well loved games, it is popular in land based clubs and especially popular in its online version. It has been estimated that more than 3 million people play bingo in land based clubs, I wouldn’t even like to hazard a guess at how many people play the game online, but I know that it is a great many.

Tests have been conducted on elderly online bingo players to see if they had faster reaction times than those who didn’t play bingo. It has been unequivocally found that they do. Hand-eye co-ordination is better and during a series of test conducted to measure memory, skill and mental speed participants who played bingo showed to be far more effective than people who did not play bingo.

This really says something for this simple little game, the social aspect of the game is always punted so widely, but what about the mental aspect of it? I regularly read news articles about people who are mentally alert into their nineties and hundreds and generally all of them say that they enjoy a regular game of bingo, and feel that it keeps them young.

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