UK Bingo News

Wink Bingo have organised a bingo packed weekend for all you bingo lovers out there with prizes and cash jackpots galore.

Gala Bingo is pulling out all the stops with their March Madness promotions that could see you winning a fantastic new Mini Cooper, VIP tickets to see Michael Bublé and loads of cash prizes.

Mecca Bingo are back with a bang and you might have spotted their new TV ad campaign on your screens over the last week or so, and to celebrate the return of Mecca to the small screen they are giving away a whopping £10k a day.

Retro Sweets Week at Mirror Bingo

Mirror Bingo has offered a surprising new promotion to its members, and one that was likely to make them extremely nostalgic. The new promotion, which was entitled the Retro Sweets Week, was designed to make bingo players reminisce and feel nostalgic about their childhoods. The Retro Sweets Week promotion began on Wednesday the twenty third of September, and offered players the chance to win large hampers of, not surprisingly, old fashioned and retro sweets and treats.

Crown Bingo has held a charity bingo night, in order that regular Crown Bingo players were able to involve themselves in charitable causes and help those that are less fortunate than themselves. The charity bingo night ran just a few weeks ago on the thirteenth of July, and raised in excess of five thousand pounds for relevant good causes.

    Because the charity bingo game was held in July, organisers decided that the charity that money from the game would be donated to should have a beach theme. With the help of their regular players, it was then decided that the proceeds would go the RNLI, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution performs an extremely important job, patrolling the coasts around England and Wales and helping boats and people who may have found themselves in trouble. The Crown Bingo players decided on this charity, because it receives no help from the government at all, and without charity and public donations it would not be able to carry on doing the important work that it does. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution saves hundreds of lives every year.

    Crown Bingo, which is a popular nationwide bingo organisation, similar to the likes of Mecca Bingo and Gala Bingo, now plans to set up a regular night that will be dedicated to charity bingo games. Crown Bingo is extremely popular and has a great legion of regular and dedicated players, so its ambition to carry on raising money for charity should not be difficult to achieve. Hopefully with the help of its many fans around the country it will be able to carry on holding these important fundraising games, and carry on involving its players in the planning of them too, like it did on this occasion for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

Bloke Bingo has launched and essentially it does exactly what it says on the tin, provides online bingo for blokes!

This new online bingo website unashamedly admits to being solely for men (although women are allowed to play too) and diverts away from the stereotype of bingo being a female-orientated activity. Although the vast majority of bingo players are women, there has been a significant upsurge in male players in recent years as bingo has moved online and it seems that bloke bingo is one of the sites that has capitalised on this development.

Bloke Bingo works by offering prizes which typically appeal to men including computer gaming consoles, dvds and sport-related prizes. Simply registering at the site allows new players to be in with a chance of winning a computer gaming console.

The site offers up to £250 cash match with bingo and slots games offered around the clock.

Somebody has bought a winning bingo ticket and stands to collect a third share in the total prize money of $6 million. The trouble is the person has not come forwards and nobody knows who it is! The ticket was purchased in Guam.

A number of recent events have brought into question how seriously some people are taking the game of bingo, and how far they will go to protest their rights. Over the last few weeks incidents have occurred around the world, some of which have breeched security, and caused police to be called out!

Traditional bingo calls have been an important aspect of bingo since the early days of the game. Each number from 1-90 has been attributed with one or more calls as a way of reinforcing to bingo players which number has been called. The most famous calls include Two Little Ducks – 22, Two Fat Ladies – 88 and Legs 11. Interestingly, all three of these calls have been assigned their particular names due to the shape that the numbers make.

Just when you thought playing bingo down at the bingo hall was going down the pan, it rises like a Phoenix from the ashes. Literally – from all the fag ash that had to be cleared away when the smoking ban came in last year.