Chatrooms are one of the best things to do while playing online bingo, it especially helps bring the whole bingo hall experience to your computer. You may be at home but there's a whole chatroom full of players to talk to. For time savings measures, you should know some common abbreviations or acronyms, that will be good for you, when you would rather concentrate on your game, rather then your spelling.

In this article I'm going to limit it to acronyms common to bingo chatrooms. I have spent long hours chitchatting with fellow Bingo gurus and have noted the most common abbreviations.

There really are a lot of abbreviations in common use, not just in chatrooms, but also on message boards and in emails. Bingo players use many of these common ones plus some specifically related to the game. For some reason, I seldom see any emoticons or smilies being used. I guess it's because during the bingo game, chitchat drops and the conversation turns serious. There's not any reason to express subtleties of emotion when you're saying "1tg 1tg!!"

So, without further ado, in alphabetical order, here is your handy dandy guide to bingo acronyms.

AFK - away from keyboard

a/s a/s/l - age/sex age/sex/location

BAK - back at keyboard

Bbl - be back later

Brb - be right back

< bs > - big smile

btu - back to you

< eg > - evil grin

Fwiw - for what it's worth

Ggp - gotta go pee (Do you really need to tell this to everyone? This is why we have AFK)

Gl - good luck

Gl2u - good luck to you

< g > - grin

gr8 - great

Hb - hurry back

irl - in real life

Imo - in my opinion

Lol - laughing out loud

Otfl - on the floor laughing

R - are

ROFL - rolling on the floor laughing

< s > - smile

Ty - thank you

U - you

< vbs > - very big smile

Wb - welcome back

< wg > - wicked grin

Wtg - way to go

YW/YVW - you're welcome, you're very welcome

1tg, 2tg, 3tg etc - one/two/three numbers left to go to get bingo