Lifestyle Content // An Exciting Way to Spend a Night In*

Life is very different when you have young kids at home compared with those carefree days of being young, free and single with no responsibilities. One really noticeable change is how many evenings you stay in at home and how relatively few evenings you’re able to meet up with your mates.

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Not that we would want it any other way. Children are generally the centre of most parents’ universes and they’re happy to be at home as a family most evenings. However, once you’ve got your little one tucked up in bed, you don’t always want to spend the rest of the night watching Eastenders or similar. After all, we all know who killed Lucy Beale now!  

Fortunately, there’s a world of entertainment at our fingertips via the internet, and whatever your interest may be, you can find out more about it and connect with it online. Videogame playing is becoming a more regular pastime, with people shunning other leisure activities such as watching TV, going to the movies or watching movies at home in favour of playing different videogames.  

One way you can have plenty of fun while staying in is to try your hand at online casino games. Many online casinos such as 32red and Casino Juggler also offer a selection of their games on mobile devices, meaning that you can play just as easily on the sofa or in the kitchen as at your desktop.  

The appeal of online casino games is that you have a huge number of games to choose from, and there’s the thrill factor of playing for real money. However, if you don’t want to place real money bets, you don’t have to, as many of the sites allow players to play the games in demo or practice mode where the bets are virtual. This means you can bet what you like on a roulette spin without any financial risk – although, of course, if you happen to win, that’ll also only be virtual.  

Generally, people only really use the demo mode when they’re playing a game for the first time – and learning how to play. For example, if you play a hand of blackjack, you may find some of the options confusing. Should you double down, or split your hand? What about taking insurance? These bits of jargon don’t make much sense to the new player, so try it out in demo mode and see what happens before trying it with real money.  

Even when you are playing for real money bets, you can benefit from some free cash to play with as nearly all of the online casinos offer a welcome bonus for new players. For example, if you put £10 into a new 32red account, you’ll get an extra £32 credited to your account by the site. When many games have minimum bets of just a few pence, that bonus credit will give you lots of entertainment value, and a few wins could mean that you increase the amount you have to play with. Of course, there are no guarantees that you’ll win, so you should always exercise caution with any gambling games – only ever playing with money that you can manage to live without.