Monday’s at Foxy Bingo are Super Prize Night where you could win some great prizes.
Super Prize Night takes place in the All Our Friends game room from 8pm every Monday night. Each week Foxy Bingo has a great range of prizes to give away to lucky bingo players, such as game consoles, TVs, MP3 players and fashion.
Read More »While there are a large number of online bingo sites that cater to the UK market, there are also a number that specifically cater to players from the USA.
Most online bingo rooms offer a similar experience. The key to finding one that will be fun and rewarding for you is to follow these simple steps:
Read More »A player at Mecca Bingo recently won a jackpot of £1.2 million, the largest jackpot ever to be won at the Mecca Bingo website.
While playing the Clover Rollover mini slots game during a game of bingo, the lucky winner hit the progressive jackpot by getting 5 lucky shamrocks on a payline. It was an incredible amount to win, much more than what was on offer for the bingo game she had been playing simultaneously.
Read More »80 ball bingo is a fairly new creation that benefits from speed. In live bingo halls, it is played using a card with shutters that can be pulled across the numbers as they are called. Online, the numbers are simply marked off in the style of the software being used.
80 ball bingo cards use a 4 by 4 grid, with each column containing numbers from a particular range of the 80 balls to be drawn. The first column has numbers from 1 to 20, the second column has numbers from 21 to 40, the third column has numbers from 41 to 60, and the final column has numbers from 61 to 80.
Read More »30 ball bingo is also known as speed bingo, as it is an incredibly fast game. With only 30 numbers to be drawn and only 9 numbers featured on a 30 ball bingo ticket, games take very little time.
A 30 ball bingo ticket has a 3 by 3 grid of numbers, so the only way to win is by getting Full House. As with other forms of bingo, each column contains numbers from a particular range, to make marking off tickets easier. In speed bingo, the first column ranges numbers 1 to 10, the second column from 11 to 20, and the third column from 21 to 30.
Read More »A bingo player has recently lost out on a £1,000 bingo win when the caller did not hear her call ‘bingo’ before the next number was called. This is always a potential problem at live bingo halls, as callers may not be paying enough attention to catch a call of ‘bingo’ before moving on.
Elaine Prendergast, a 63-year-old player at a live Gala Bingo hall, was the victim of this unfortunate mistake, but the rules of live bingo halls mean that she is unlikely to see her £1,000 jackpot. She says that she called ‘bingo’ early and loudly, with other players and the bingo steward backing her up, but the protocols of live bingo insist that claims are void once the caller has moved on.
Read More »Somerset is set to get a new bingo hall with the Kingsway Bingo Club planned to open in Frome. The new bingo club is planned for the Kingsway Precint, in the premises of a former nightclub.
The backers of the new bingo club have already bought an 11 year lease of the premises. They have also applied for a license with the Mendip District Council, with local town council and police already saying that they have no objection to the new bingo club.
Read More »During a bingo games the bingo callers will often use fun nicknames for the numbers. Usually they will state both digits individually then the whole number, such as “Two and One, Twenty-One”, and then follow it with the nickname.
Below you will find some of the most common number nicknames used in the UK.
Read More »Every month at 888 Ladies Bingo there is £3,000 up for grabs in the Team Bingo Tournament. To be part of it all you need to do is team up with 1 or 2 of your best bingo friends, pick a team name and join in the fun.
The tournament is quite simple, the team with the most bingos in the month wins! Plus, the top 10 teams also win some nice prizes:
Read More »Mecca Bingo is about to hold online bingo championships that will see one of their lucky roomies winning £25,000 with another several thousand pounds worth of prizes to be won!
In order to enter the hour of free bingo on Grand Final Thursday, 30 April, you simply need to play in any qualifying game. If you win a qualifying game, then you will be in a chance to win the £25,000 top prize.
Read More »The Gala bingo hall in Westfield Road, Peterborough, is beating the recession with attendances increasing 400% in a year. They have even had to turn customers away on some occasions.
Special offers and promotions have helped increase numbers, according to the managers, which dropped to as low as 100 after the smoking band was implemented. Now they can get as many as 1,500 on the special free bingo promotion nights.
Read More »Bingo bonuses let you play more, for less. This is vital for people who want to make the best returns on their bingo play.
Bingo bonuses come in two forms – bonuses on money deposited and bonus tickets. Bonuses on money are usually very rare, restricted mostly to newly registered members to help them get involved. Bonus tickets, however, are very common and can be earned in online bingo hall ‘happy hours’ or via chat mini-games.
As bonuses on your money will probably only be offered when you first sign up, it can be advantageous to shop around for a good one. Many of our featured online casinos and bingo halls offer exceptionally good value on sign up bonuses, so be sure to browse through them to find one that appeals to you.
Read More »You could win £10,000 just by playing bingo during April at Party Bingo.
All you have to do is earn PartyPoints while playing at Party Bingo, and for every 20 PartyPoints you earn from 1st to the 30th April 2009 you will get one entry into the £10,000 Lucky Dip prize draw. You don’t even need to do anything to be eligible, just play bingo like normal to accumulate points.
You can find all of the details as well as the terms and conditions at Party Bingo .
So start playing now at Party Bingo for your chance to win!
Virgin Bingo are hiding two Guaranteed Bingo Pots of £250 during the course of day on 9th April 2009. There are also more offers, with 12 tickets for £1. Play between 11am and Midday and between 5pm and 6pm on April 9th for your chance to win the Easter treats.
On Good Friday, April 10th 2009, Virgin Bingo will give all players £1 free and a 100% cash match offer.
Read More »Bingo chat games can really help you to get ahead when playing online bingo. They are simple, fun, and you can earn free tickets by winning them.
Many bingo chat games are simple word games. For example, the host of the bingo site asks people to guess a profession that she is thinking of starting with the letter ‘F’. The first person to answer correctly will win a small number of free entry tickets.
Be wary of sites that try to hide their chat facility. The best sites understand that the chat component of bingo is one of its most rewarding features, but some sites like to limit the number of free tickets they give out by hiding the chat function. Make sure you can easily access the chat feature, as you don’t want to miss out on the hundreds of free tickets you could earn by joining in the chat games while playing bingo online.
Read More »Lots of people I know wonder how they can make the most of their tickets in bingo. They all know that they can work out what the best number of tickets is to buy but want to do more to improve their bingo returns.
Well, there certainly isn’t any magic way to win at bingo, but there is a cost-effective way of getting more tickets for your cash.
Just don’t pay for them.
No, we aren’t talking about hacking the sites or something criminal. You just need to take advantage of all the free ticket offers available from bingo sites.
Read More »A new “super” bingo centre in Beeston, worth £5.5m, will be the first of it’s kind in the UK.
Set to open on May 14 2009, Mecca will include a traditional bingo hall and a bar and will also feature live entertainment at night and computerised touch-screen bingo machines. Community groups are also being invited to use the facilities to hold meetings, such as Weight Watchers.
Read More »When you start playing bingo online, most sites will give you a choice to play with their browser-based online version or a downloadable software version. The choice you make will depend on the restrictions of your hardware and software as well as personal preference.
No matter which way you choose to play, both methods are completely secure. Downloadable bingo software is built especially with safety and security in mind, and the online browser-based bingo systems use encryption in order to protect your information as it is being transferred.
Read More »Playing 90 ball bingo, also known as UK bingo, online is the most convenient and economical option. There are many great online bingo sites that offer 90 ball bingo cards and players may play many bingo cards at once, as they are marked off automatically.
To play UK bingo online, you must simply sign up with a trusted site, such as 888 Ladies Bingo or any of the casinos in our bingo reviews section, and then fund the account. This can be done by credit card at some sites, but many people prefer to use an e-wallet like Click2Pay or NETeller in order to fund online bingo.
Read More »75 ball bingo or US bingo is a very popular game at online bingo halls due to the variety it offers. Those looking to play 75 ball bingo are advised to start online, as the online 75 ball bingo tickets are low-priced and playing at home at trusted sites like 888 Ladies Bingo or any of the other casinos on our bingo reviews section is much more convenient than visiting a live bingo hall.
To begin playing 75 ball bingo online, you will need to sign up with a bingo site and then choose a method of funding your account. Many sites will accept a wide range of credit cards, but there are also e-wallet options like NETeller that some players consider to be safer.
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