Bettys Online Bingo Blog: December 2008 Archives

Do you love the spot the difference competitions in magazines and newspapers? Well one online bingo site is offering you the chance to win £10 of shopping vouchers to 20 lucky players. All you have to do is spot the differences at Littlewoods Bingo in the competition running until the end of December and if you get all the answers correct you will be entered into the prize draw for one of the 20 shopping vouchers.

One of my favourite pastimes when playing online bingo is joining in with the bingo tournaments and some of the best are played at Think Bingo. However this festive season Scrooge comes to Think Bingo disguised as one of their chat hosts, CM Bluey! Wait, let me explain - it's all about a great bingo tournament that will be taking place on Christmas Eve, not a slur on any of the Think Bingo chat hosts!

One of the newest sites I have visited recently, Bunny Bingo, has just announced their newest promotions and of course, being a new site I was interested to see exactly what they have on offer. The Bunny Bingo promotions are offering the players at this online bingo site the chance to win Sky TV and Broadband as well as the chance to win a new mobile phone from the CarPhone Warhouse.

Back in November I wrote about Praesepe purchasing 31 stores from HJM Caterers and that the new brand name for Shipleys Amusements would be Cashino. Today I was pointed in the direction of a news piece showing the Cashino have now unveiled their new look. I hadn't seen what the old frontage for a Shipleys arcade looked like so went in search of an image for comparison.

It's that time of the week again and after last weeks landslide victory I am feeling pretty confident for this weeks online bingo top ten. Each week "TheBoss" sends me the results and this week the email from him said "Top ten, bah! Humbag, I think you have me licked" but taking a brief glance at the results I don't think that's entirely true; I definitely think this weeks online bingo top ten is going to be a hot contendly race to the post.

Many of us take loads of photographs at Christmas and what the SkyBingo photo promotion is offering is the chance to win a share of £400 of Argos vouchers and extra bingo bonuses for sending in your festive bingo snaps. Christmas seems to be a time for family, presents and excessive alcohol consumption and what better combination for some interesting bingo snaps than that mix.

Although I'm a bit of a scrooge when it comes to sending Xmas cards (I believe they are a waste of money because they are binned eventually) I was pleased to get a CrownBingo Christmas Card, I think it's a nice touch from online bingo sites. What's interesting about the CrownBingo Christmas card is that they incorporated aspects of the site into the design.

Many online bingo players, as well as people who participate in other forms of online gaming, use Neteller as a payment option for depositing funds at bingo sites or the like and recently there has been a new deal showing on Neteller called the Showcase. If you take a look at the page there are some great Neteller bingo deals listed for two of the online bingo sites we have reviewed or written about here at onlinebingo.net.

I took a trip to my favourite online bingo site today and was pleasantly surprised to see a rather festive Foxy Bingo. Foxy HQ have obviously been into the loft and got all the Christmas decorations down with which to adorn their online bingo site. The Foxmeister himself, or the cartoony version of him, can be seen sporting a Santa hat on the festive Foxy Bingo home page.

Facebook the social networking site is taking the world by storm; it seems no matter if it is work or pleasure Facebook is there. As well as the personal pages they also allows groups where Facebook Bingo Groups where likeminded people can discuss bingo of all shapes and sizes. There are many of these groups from ones by online bingo portals and others by online bingo sites themselves.

Recently we saw the introduction of a new side game at Tombola Bingo called Rollercoaster but if you have been logging into your account there over the last couple of weeks then you will have noticed that to the right of your screen is a new tab advertising the new game coming soon. Bandit at Tombola is a highly kept secret in so far as no one knows what the game will be or how to play it.

I recently attended an industry conference in Barcelona and whilst I met many interesting and influential people in the bingo industry as a player I didn't find some of the actual seminars that interesting. However there was one specific seminar about the online bingo industry as opposed to casino and one question posed to the panel was one that I'd asked myself a lot. Is online bingo just for women?

It's not often that I visit CyberBingo so I thought I'd best take a trip over there and check what is going on for the festive season at their online bingo site. The CyberBingo news section offers details of their festive promotions and winners of previous competitions but it's all fairly boring stuff, nothing really grabbed my attention. The CyberBingo news section is the type of page I scroll through quickly and then close down.....

If you want to take part in the latest promotion from the new Sun Bingo then you need to hurry to your newsagents and purchase today's Sun newspaper because inside is the 12 days of Xmas with Sun Bingo game card and you need this for your exclusive daily numbers for your chance to win some great prizes from the new Sun Bingo. Without it you can't even enter so what are you doing still sat reading this?

I've been putting off and putting off doing the latest online bingo top ten because I'm not a very good loser, week in and week out "The Boss" manages to beat me with his excellent articles *cough splutter* and despite having the higher ratio of articles I can never seem to beat him no matter what I do or what I write about.  Oh well, let's see how I have faired this week and fingers crossed that for the first time since we started this I come in at first place, if I don't I'm giving up and going home!

I recently told you all about the Foxy Bingo advent calendar and have myself been watching with interest as to what each day brings behind the windows. It's a bit like having your very own chocolate advent calendar but with something far more interesting than chocolate by way of advent prizes at Foxy. It's the fifth day of the promotion and as a teaser I though I'd list the advent prizes from Foxy so far.

Bingo Night Live finished its first season on 15th November this year and left many of its players, including me, wondering if it was likely to return for another season. There was little or no reason as to why Bingo Night Live stopped production but reading through an article on the Gambling Compliance web site by Scott Longley I am able to offer a Bingo Night Live update.

Quite a while ago I seem to remember there being an online bingo site called MSNBingo and seen as I seem to spend most of my time chatting on MSN messenger with an assortment of people (that and "TheBoss" prompting me) made me wonder if the site had developed in anyway since I last visited it some three or four years ago. If I recall correctly in the early days of MSNBingo it was similar to sites like Pogo; a free to play game but don't quote me on that because I have slept since then!

If you are anything like me then you will no doubt have ventured into the world of Facebook, the social networking site, and spend at least an hour a day seeing whose status has changed and generally having a nose. Well you may also have noticed that recently they have started to show adverts for online bingo. Facebook bingo has always been around by way of groups for online bingo sites; even many online bingo portals have groups.

Not so long ago Sun Bingo moved away from the Tombola software to launch their new and improved online bingo site but you know what? For me the new Sun Bingo imitates Tombola so why did they make the decision to part ways? What has the new Sun Bingo got that Tombola Bingo doesn't? Previously we saw the loss of Hamster Races when the new Sun Bingo launched but............