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Cost to play: Starts at 25 cents per card
Prizes/jackpot: $1,000 coverall every hour
Download required? Yes
Frequency: Several games every hour, short waits
Number of cards: Up to 24
Sound effects/Caller? Yes/Yes
Chat: Yes, 6 rooms including French and Spanish!

CyberBingo is a fun download game that features a $1000 coverall jackpot game every hour. The newest version of the software, 4.66, launched recently so I checked it out.

First things first -- the money. CyberBingo advertises that they have paid out over $3 million in cash prizes and more than $250,000 in cash prizes is awarded every month. Pretty good cash! Looking at the list of recent winners, I noticed lots of big wins.

There's a different theme every day with bonuses in addition to the regular jackpots and different games are offered. For example, on Tropical Tuesdays one of four tropical patterns each hour (fish, cactus, palm tree or wave) wins a $150 guaranteed jackpot. On Mystery Mondays CyberBingo tops the pot by 50% for one mystery pattern each hour.

All the games have chat rooms and now Cyber Bingo has added French and Spanish chat rooms. The French room was hopping the day I popped in. And as an added bonus, you can learn all those nifty naughty words you were never taught in French class!

CyberBingo has also extended the chat room community by offering 6 discussion forums that aren't connected to the bingo games in progress. Here you can just go chat to your online bingo buddies if you've blown your bingo allowance for the day. It's a great feature.

There are 70 patterns in rotation and all the favorites are there. If yours isn't, you can send Cyber Bingo an email and suggest it.

CyberBingo has added lots of new backgrounds, a few more caller options and kept its wide range of customizable features. It's an enjoyable game and I'll play there again soon and you should too!