November 2007 Archives

When you first register with Closer Bingo, you will receive £10.00 pounds FREE (No Deposit Required) Bonus, which is a great way to take a look around their online site and play some of their games without having to fund using your own money! Not only that, but Closer Bingo will also match your first deposit up to the value of £150, AND give you 50% EXTRA with every subsequent deposit up to the value of £50!

Since the inception of the smoking ban a lot of Bingo Clubs have felt the pinch, the question is how are they planning on catering for their smoking clientele?

 

Scotland's bingo players have yet another online bingo site- Scot Bingo. Scot Bingo sits alongside other Scottish taregted sites such as Daily Record Bingo, Bingo Scotland, and STV Bingo.

In no particular order this is a compilation of every single online bingo site we could come up with a total of 224 different online places to play bingo if you could believe it. From Carlton Bingo through to Foxy Bingo from large sites to small.

What is it?
It's the smart new way to play Bingo. It uses a Gala Wiz pen and a handheld electronic ticket minder.

The games are the same, but instead of marking off numbers on paper tickets, you use the digital pen to tap them off on the electronic Gala Wiz. Simple.

 

Riva Gaming opens England's first electronic Bingo Club. Riva Gaming Group, one of the UK's leading bingo club operators, has recently opened England's first fully electronic bingo club.

The Riva Club in Sutton, South West London, uses over 600 handheld terminals (582 inside and 20 in specially designated smoking areas) instead of the traditional paper bingo ticket.

Getminted, one of the UK's biggest gaming sites, now has MegaJackpots live on its web site, one of the biggest ever online progressive jackpot games.

 

 

 

Last week Mirror Bingo said Team Bingo would be taking a break in December. However, due to player demand its back. So Mirror players will still be able to team up and play for a share of 5 Million BPS in December. And even if you don't land yourself a top spot, every team that achieves 100 points or more will get 40,000 bps each.

As complete a list as we could come up with for all the UK bingo clubs we could identify.  The list will no doubt be out of date the minute we write it but its a good starting point, if you need to find a specific club try the site search function.

We have put together for our Scottish readers a complete list of all offline bingo clubs available in Scotland. It si just a simple resource to help anyone looking for a game in Scotland to find their closest club use the site search function if you are looking for any thing specific.

 

Castle Bingo own eight purpose built, modern UK bingo clubs.
 
They are situated on the doorsteps of all bingo players in the South West Wales area. Castle Bingo claim player requirements are the drivers for their club designs, with comfortable seating, the very latest in bingo technology and bingo catering and bingo bar offerings which are the envy of other UK Bingo Clubs.  All their Bingo clubs are comfortable.

Littlewoods Gaming is one of the UK's most established gaming companies and they are a leader in the home gaming industry. Littlewoods are most famous for its Football Pools, and they have drawn upon over 80 years of experience to develop a portfolio of brands that are leading the way in entertainment-based gaming. Over the years Littlewoods has created more than 100 millionaires and prizes have been paid out to over 60 million winners!

Foxy Bingo first launched onto our computer screens back in June 2005 and since then they have just gone from strength to strength and are now amongst the biggest names in UK bingo. They have 14 Bingo game rooms for you to choose from and ticket prices for their Bingo games start from as little as 10p! When you first register with

 

 

 

Lozz37 won a huge £34,981.02 from buying only 60p of tickets! An exstatic lozz37 recalled:'I am over the moon, my husband is in the army and we have been based in Germany for over 3 years. So it has been a long time since I have seen my parents so I am going to use some of my winnings to go and visit them after Christmas. I love bingo, I get to chat to all my friends whilst my husband is away on duty.'

Amy Ramsdale, 20 and a student nurse bagged herself £45,000 at Gala Bingo Club in Robin Park by playing a hunch. Usually Amy plays bingo on a Sunday with her mum Jean but decide she would play on a Wednesday as she couldn't shake a "lucky feeling".

Getminted Casino launched a massive progressive earlier this week £1.5M pound reset value - the only question really is when wil it drop I guess.

Foxy's Advent Calendar is Back this year with a bigger bang than ever.
 
Ding Dong Merrily on Bingo claims FoxyBingo, Christmas is on the way and there is no better place to count down to the festive season than at Foxy.

This December sees the return of the Foxy Advent Calendar; which contains 24 prizes.

I was surprised to see when looking around at competition for onlinebingo.net that www.bingo.net does not seem to have any presence it is currently a simple redirect to our friends at Jackpotjoy.  A little bit of digging yielded some results which leads me to the view the domainis in fact owned by Jackpotjoy or one of their associated companies. .

Bingo 888 is the latest and nicest site newly powered by software belonging to Brigend Limited.  It offers a safe and secure place to play bingo though I must say I always felt they were better at Casino products unlike Foxy Bingo which focuses just on Bingo. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cassava Enterprises. Cassava is happy to provide players with online bingo services under its remote gambling license issued by the Government of Gibraltar.

Bingo Jetset offers players 75-ball online bingo games and 90-ball bingo games. With their online bingo games you can play and win in daily coverall bingo games and daily progressive jackpot bingo games. Players of this site can enjoy playing internet bingo games non-stop in fun filled bingo rooms and chat rooms. Win loyalty points every time you make a deposit, purchase a bingo card or refer a friend.

Playing at Ladbrokes Bingo couldn't be easier and all it takes is three easy steps to be able start playing some of their great games - Register an Account - Deposit funds and Choose your Bingo alias, it's as simple as that! When you join Ladbrokes online bingo site you will receive a £10.00 Free Bonus.

Virgin Bingo are a part of Virgin.com Limited, and because they are a Virgin company, you can be sure that it's all about having fun in that unique Virgin way at their online Bingo site. You can be sure when you play at Virgin Bingo's online site that you are playing at a site that is honest and fair, and they also have something that no other gaming site has, and that's the chance to win a whole range of Virgin products and services, as well as lots great cash prizes of course!

This advert from Foxy is quite surreal as it has a well dressed fox walking across a common, I like the flow of it though and its definately memorable.

This is one of the more cheesey adverts around and the song at times seems like its being a bit forced but good effort not sure the visuals work with in it. Click below to see the advert.

Nice cosy happy advert, bit technological in the way its put together but clearly sells the benefits of an online bingo site in other words that is like joining an online bingo family. Click the link to see the advert.

Click below to check out the advert from the inimatable Sun newspaper promoting their bingo with a catchy tune.

To check out the latest Jack Pot Joy TV adverts click below this is a really good effort especially the use of The Price is Right as a driver.

These are examples of the latest Bet fred Bingo Adverts - they are a good start but seem a bit flat to us:

 

Littlewoods Bingo have commissioned a survey of 3000 people to determine whether people would consider leaving their partners if they came into money. Surprisingly two thirds of the people surveyed said that the thought would cross their mind to leave their partners if they were lucky enough to win £1,000,000 on the lottery or playing online bingo.! Even more astonishing one fifth of people stated that they would consider leaving for a much smaller sum - a mere £1,000!

Maybe I've not been married long enough, still basking in the honeymoon period you could say, but there isn't any amount of money that could make me even consider leaving my husband!

What about you? Would you consider leaving your partner if you came into money - and if so, how much or little would it need to be?

A Mecca Bingo hall in Watford's Town Centre today suffered a small ground fire due to a faulty light fitting.
Firefighters arrived at the bingo hall in King Street, Watford complete with breathing apparatus, thermal imaging camera and a hose reel at 12.31pm to extinguish the fire.
The bingo session wasn't under way and only 4 members of staff were in the building at the time, all were evacuated without injury.

Simply Bingo runs on the Virtue Fusion software and provides 90 ball bingo and a wide variety of slot games including Fruitopia, Vegas Veg and many more.

Offering £1 free to all new registrations that is added to your account immediately and a first deposit bonus of 100% up to £250.

Unlucky For Some doesn't live up to it's name - it's far from unlucky if you are looking for bingo reviews,  bingo news, free bingo, a forum and anything bingo related!

 

 

Mirapex is often used to treat Parkinson's disease. Mirapexin, or pramipexole dihydrochloride, is a dopamine receptor agonist drug used in the treatment of idiopathic Parkinson's disease. Was licensed for use in the UK in 1998 and is supplied in the UK by Boehringer Ingelheim Limited.

 Big Time Bingo is a US focused site running Parlay software without the 90 ball option.

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Residents in Didsbury rejoiced after a Buckingham bingo hall's bid for a casino licence was turned down by magistrates. 

Casino and bingo operator Rank (owner of mecca Bingo) has rejected an approach from U.S. casino giant Harrah's Entertainment, Britain's Telegraph newspaper reported on Sunday.

Leaders of an association of charities are wondering if state Sen. Gibson E. Armstrong is deliberately holding up a bill they believe would help nonprofits raise money using bingo as a fundraising tool.

The bingo world held its version of the Oscars this weekend. Blake from Mecca Bingo scooped the jackpot.

Outside his 1960s three-bed house Ruddick said: "I have got nothing more to say about the Labour party donations apart from that today I'm off to the bingo to try and win the kind of money they say I have. Then I'll be able to make the kind of donations they say I have too."

 

NetPlay TV (owners of Big Box Bingo the interactive TV and paper based Bingo)

Whilst announcing its results for the six months ended 30 June 2007 we had a good insight into their new TV based Bingo format.

Highlights

  * Successful launch of BigBoxBingo in Beta test format 3 July 2007

  * Live Roulette now trading profitably, gross bets exceeded £15m in August
    2007; 440% increase since acquisition (December 2006 gross bets were £3.4m)

  * Acquisition of Play Monday database 18 January 2007, relaunched as fixed
    odds game 11 June 2007, sales doubled since acquisition

  * Abstract Games Limited acquired 23 February 2007, quiz members grown from
    5,000 to 21,000 and trading profitably

 

 

 

Chat Games - every online bingo players access to free money!

As bingo players we all love a great chat game, it's a way to win free money by simply playing and watching the bingo game. Most, if not all online bingo sites play some form of chat game or another. Generally if there is a Chat Host (CM, CH, CL etc etc) in the chat room then chat games will be played. Understandably you do have to be a deposited player to qualify to play the chat games.

 

The Sun is currently promoting online and to it's 7.9 million readers its recently re-launched mobile internet portal. All games will be available in an instantly downloadable format on the portal.

The agreement with Probablity plc and the UK's daily leading newspaper includes real money branded Bingo, Slots and Casino games. The agreement, a twelve month revenue share, will primarily offer its customer base Blackjack, progressive jackpots, casino type slots, Roulette, Hi Lo, Video Poker and the recently introduced "Jumping Jack Cash". All is anticipated to go live in November 2007 with minimum bets of 50p for a Bingo strip of six tickets and a Casino and Slots minimum bet of 10p.

Probabilty's subsidiary, based in Alderney, will operate the mobile gambling service under its e-Gambling Licence for the Alderney Gambling Control Commission. Age verification will be required by all customers before they are able to deposit money into their account.
Limits have been introduced by the company to recognize and avoid problem behaviour.

Already available to The Sun's online customer base is Bingo in association with Tombola, and with Ladbrokes - Casino, Sportsbook, Games and Poker.

The CEO of Probability, Charles Cohen has said "We are very excited to be working with The Sun and expect the agreement to develop into a very successful partnership for both of us. The Sun is clearly committed to the mobile market in general and more specifically, fully understands the exciting growth opportunities in the mobile gambling sector. News Group joins our growing list of blue-chip partners for whom we provide white label products including Rank Group plc, which brands our games under the Blue Square trade name."

 

A 48-year-old bingoer from Kirkby has told the UK bingo operating body that she will share some £20,000 in bingo winnings with her sister. She has been a bingo fan since she was 18 and plays the game with her sister as often as she can at her local Gala Bingo Club in Telegraph Way. "I was shocked when I realised I had won. Everybody was cheering so I was a bit embarrassed but I'm very happy."

Other members of her family set to benefit from her bingo win include her children and grandchildren, who will be treated this Christmas.

Her sister plans to use her share of the winnings to go on a family holiday as well as carry out home improvements.

Meanwhile, a man from Anglesey who says he has been playing bingo "for donkey's years" is celebrating winning £22,500 while on holiday in Blackpool.

 

Story from: www.onlinebingo.co.uk

 

Riva Gaming's chief executive Simon Hannah warned in the Financial Times that as many as a hundred UK land bingo clubs could close within the next six months if taxation on the industry is not changed. He warned that the 'double taxation' imposed by the combined VAT and gross profit tax is putting the industry at a significant commercial disadvantage.

 
"Where betting shops and casinos only pay 15 percent gross profit tax, we must also pay 17.5 percent VAT on our bingo income, putting us at a significant commercial disadvantage," the bingo company executive said.
 
Riva is one of the most technologically progressive of the bingo operators in the UK, introducing electronic bingo innovations earlier this year.
 
The industry is meeting with government to discuss the matter this week.

 

Bingo Scotland is a sister site to Think Bingo and Think Bingo Plus and Scot Bingo is the world's only bingo site and community dedicated to Scotland. With the majority of their members and Chat Moderators being Scottish, Bingo Scotland adds a unique and warm Scottish flavour to its online bingo games and atmosphere. Bingo Scotland was set up to provide the definitive online location for Scots to play and experience bingo online. Bingo Scotland is powered by software belonging to Brigend Limited.

 

Do you remember Leslie Crowther on the Price is Right, or are you a little younger and Bruce's version is the one you recall?

The Price is Right Bingo and Jackpot Joy

Simply play bingo in their Price is Right room and when the bonus appears you are in with a chance of winning some great prizes.

 

If you take the time to post a comment on this review and tell us your user name at Get Minted Bingo you will find an extra £3 in your account!

 

 

Get Minted Bingo are owned by Cashcade Ltd and over the past 6 years Cashcade has grown to become one of the UK's most successful online gaming marketing businesses. Their business manages over 20 clients and 400,000 players including a variety of blue chip companies both in the UK and abroad. They only work with the best operators to bring you the best games on the planet. 

 

 

We all have our lucky numbers, mine are family birthdays but did you know that lucky numbers like 7 only actually appear on a small percentage of bingo cards?

If you stick to buying cards that only have your lucky numbers on you actually reduce your chances of winning because they only appear on approximately 20% of bingo cards.

 

 

 

 

 

Think Bingo first launched back in August 2004, and they were the UK's first stand alone Bingo site. Since then Think Bingo have gone from strength to strength, and they now have an unparalleled reputation in the Bingo Industry and amongst their players, and they believe this was down to their close online Bingo community and their member led approach. Think Bingo is powered by software belonging to Brigend Limited which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cassava Enterprises (Gibraltar) Limited ("Cassava").

Jackpot Joy are truly a unique online Bingo site and their players win more than £2 million pounds in Prize money every day. Jackpot Joy  is owned by the Gamesys Group and licensed by Profitable Play Limited and they are one of the UK's leading online win and instant entertainment brands. The Gamesys group were voted the fastest growing UK technology company in the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 (2006). Jackpot Joy  take your security very seriously and your privacy is of paramount importance. All personal information is sent to their site using 40-bit a SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Digital Encryption therefore protecting all your personal details. This is the same security in use at the leading online banks. They also use the services of a third party fraud checking service to ensure the protection of credit and debit card-holders. You can be safe in the knowledge that all your transactions at Jackpot Joy are carefully screened to prevent fraudulent activity.

Free Money offers

Don't waste the free money a site provides - use it wisely. Some sites may offer what appear to be really impressive FREE money but if you take the time to look round the site their deposit bonuses or promotions might not be as impressive.

Get a feel for the community on the site. As online bingo players most of use like to feel part of the community - join in with chat, talk to the other players if possible. Have a look around, see what chat games are on offer.

In essence, use the free money to check out all aspects of the site - a good one to keep an eye on is the sites wagering requirements. You don't want to deposit 10£ and then realise that you have to wager 100 times your deposit and bonuses before you can withdraw your winnings!