Bingo News: November 2008 Archives

One lucky bingo player scooped £350,000 after only her third time of playing the game at a Gala Bingo hall in Freshfield Way, Brighton. The Gala Bingo big winner hails from Brighton and is a 42 year old woman who has asked to remain anonymous. The winner was only at her local bingo hall with a friend who needed someone to attend with her and was shocked when she scooped the prize on the High 5 game.

Online Bingo is one of my favourite pastimes but I must admit it can cause me more stress then my little old heart can take sometimes as I sit here screaming at the screen praying to the gods of the bingo balls that the one last number drops into place. I have suffered from the dreaded 1TG so many times; This December however Ladbrokes Bingo has a cure for me in their Laddies Lucky Loft.

For quite a while now the Dream Bingo super promo has been running but today I was sent an email saying that they have moved the goal posts a little. Previously the promo was run that when they hit a certain number of deposits a new prize was awarded to the player who was drawn when a milestone was reached but the Dream Bingo super promo changes means that the next milestone will be played differently.

I'm not the type of person who reads the Daily Mail but I might make an exception tomorrow and buy it but only because it contains a free scratch card for the Daily Mail Christmas Cracker and my chance to win some free cash from Daily Mail Bingo. Saturday 29th November you will get one free scratch card in the Daily Mail and this scratch card is valid until 1st January 2009 from what I have read.

A new online bingo site has launched with the name BestDamnBingo and of course I was interested to find out if the site lived up to the standard the site name implies. I found out about this new bingo site through a mailer they sent although I have no clue as to how they got my email address. The mailer contains details of $25 free for all new players so let's take a look and see if BestDamnBingo like up to their name!

One online bingo site is giving away a Mini Cooper on 1st January 2009 and not to be outdone the 888ladies advent calendar sees a multitude of prizes being offered from 1st December until Christmas Eve with the big prize in the last game being a Mazda 2 1.3. There is a little confusion at 888ladies as to the day the big game takes place, the promotional page says Christmas Eve at 10pm yet reading the T&C's for the promotion it says 26th December 2008 at 10am?

Didn't I say recently that we are going to see some great bingo promotions over the next month in the run up to Christmas? Well I have just read the news of one of the big promotions and you have a chance to win a Mini at Wink Bingo on 1st January 2009 at 7pm and each ticket for this big game costs £10; the prize is valued at over £13,000 and it's a brand new Mini Cooper.

One online bingo site is offering up the chance to win one million Nectar points in their latest bingo promotion and one lucky player will become an overnight millionaire thanks to the Gala Bingo Nectar points promotion! It could be you! And all you need to do is play one game of bingo every day from now until Christmas Eve at Gala Bingo.

We are reported to be in a recession and each of us supposedly feeling the credit crunch so it was with interest I read an article on the news page for STV about "bingo winning in the recession". STV is a Scottish news channel who also have their own bingo site, STV Bingo, so the report is based in Scotland but whatever the region or country it's always good to read about bingo booming.

I'm not big on the industry news when it comes to bingo halls but was interested to read about the Gala Coral Group's decision to leave the Bingo Association, the main body behind all the bingo halls. The Bingo Association represents the land based bingo business and has been instrumental in fighting against the double taxation levied against bingo so what was behind Gala Bingo leaving the Bingo Association?

Many online bingo sites are preparing their Xmas bingo promotions and of the hundreds of online bingo sites available to us as bingo players many will offer Christmas Hampers as prizes. The promotion for Xmas at Bingo Magix offers just that as a prize in their latest bingo promotion and entry is gained simply for making a deposit at their online bingo site from now until 21st December.

TFI Friday with Foxy Bingo promises to be a great day for all their online bingo players because there are promotions galore throughout the day from free bingo games to bingo points a plenty being given away. My question to you is why are you sat here reading this and not logged into Foxy Bingo taking advantage of all the great promotions?

We have seen many online bingo sites over the last month or so offering free bingo to their bingo players and we all love these games but sometimes the prizes aren't all that great depending on the site offering free bingo. Have you heard of the Wink Bingo Frisky Fridays? I hadn't before today but I really like the concept of this type of free bingo.

Have you tried the new game at Tombola Bingo? I only discovered it yesterday and already I am hooked on Rollercoaster at Tombola Bingo. It could be that I am a bit of a sadist but it makes me laugh how the rollercoaster goes round the loop and someone falls out - I hope that no one calls the Health and Safety people about Tombola Bingo and their new game!

Over the last few days I have noticed that more and more of the CashCade sites are upgrading their home pages in keeping with the bigger standalone sites under the CashCade hat and the latest is the Sunday Mail Bingo makeover. The new home page looks far more appealing than the previous offering and most definitely holds more appeal to me as an online bingo player.

When I first wrote about Bingo Radio I was corrected when I mentioned that it was part of Game Village Bingo but recently, as a member of Bingo Radio, I was sent an email telling with the news that Bingo Radio moves to Game Village Bingo. Why then was I corrected on the information I provided? I hate being told I'm wrong only to find that in fact my instincts are right!

If you didn't know already Elton John is currently on a World Tour and one online bingo site recently offered tickets to see him in gay Paris but today I bring you news of your chance to see Elton John with Littlewoods Bingo. The tickets on offer in this bingo promotion are for his concert at the Manchester MEN Arena on Sunday 21st December.

The bingo caller over at Bingo Café has been named by their online bingo players as Joe and he is planning on throwing a huge dinner party for all his friends but he needs the players at Bingo Café to help collect all of the ingredients. Without the ingredients Joe won't be able to throw the Bingo Café Dinner Party; if you help him out then you could be taking a share of the secret stuffing.

Although I never really got into the whole Bingo Night Live hype I was shocked to see that Saturday 15th November saw the show, Bingo Night Live cancelled! However one of the players on this free bingo show wasn't complaining as Dave from Blackwood took home the final £25,000 Golden Jackpot and I bet he was smiling like a Cheshire cat! Bingo Night Live launched onto our screen 5 months ago and has given away over £500,000 in the time that they have been on air.

I was recently pointed in the direction of a new online bingo site called Bingolore and was shocked to find a site with a distinct Indian feel to it. Shocked because this is the first time I have seen such an offering to the online bingo industry and a little confused when I took the time to register an account and check out the bingo chat rooms.

How do you fancy winning a share of £13,000 for nothing? Well that's exactly what is on offer in the Mecca Bingo Golden Ticket promotion and playing the along is simple to do. All depositing players can generate a Mecca Bingo Golden Ticket just by logging into their online bingo accounts and although the game started on 5th November 2008 it's not too late to take part.

Have you been rushed off your feet trying to beat the Christmas rush and get all your Christmas presents early? Could you do with a little treat for yourself? Well one online bingo site might have a promotional prize that could sooth your aching feet and relax your tensed muscles. The spa day from InterBingo could see you being pampered and getting ready for the joys of the January sales.

A Buckingham Bingo hall in Walden has received a £10,000 fine as improvements to their standards were not made some nine months after one of their employees were burnt in a serious kitchen accident. Buckingham Bingo were fined after pleading guilty of failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare at work of their employees at the club in Ellesmere Retail Park.

There is a lot happening over at William Hill Bingo this week and it all starts today according to the William Hill Bingo news I received by email today. The first of the news from William Hill is of No Lose Bingo which takes place tonight between 10pm and 11pm. You won't know which games are No Lose Bingo until the chat host announces them but you will get your money back if you don't win on those games.

Having a little scout around the world of online bingo I stumbled upon a site called BingoWags and the name made me chuckle to myself. Wags is the term predominantly used for the wives and girlfriends of football players and I suppose as bingo loves we could all be BingoWags. Aren't we all wives or girlfriends of the online bingo game?

Think Cosy is the baby sister of the well known Think Bingo and if you like a more intimate feel to an online bingo site then this could be the site for you. There are less players at Think Cosy than at the bigger site but reading through the Think Cosy news that landed in my inbox today it doesn't make any difference to the promotions available.

How are any of the online bingo sites making any money lately? The reason I ask is that this week we have free bingo at Foxy Bingo and today I can bring you news of more free bingo at Mirror Bingo. It was only a little while ago that Mirror Bingo did their first free bingo week and it obviously proved to be very popular amongst the players.

This Friday our TV screens are going to be filled with Pudsey Bear as the annual Children in Need charity event takes place. I love the programme but the hubby refuses to watch it for some reason. I may just get him logged in for Children in Need with Foxy Bingo because it could make me £20,000 richer and what's even better about it is that Foxy Bingo will be making a huge donation to Children in Need in the process.

It was only a couple of days ago that I heard the news the Paparazzi Bingo and Babingo were closing their doors and this morning my inbox was full of news of yet more online bingo closures. Busy Bingo and Winners Bingo close on 14th November; two more bingo sites to bite the dust on the St Minver network.

Yet another online bingo site has announced that is moving into the TV sponsorship side of media advertising and this time it's the turn of William Hill Bingo. We already see the likes of Foxy Bingo and Wink Bingo sponsoring the likes of Family Fortunes and the Jeremy Kyle show but the William Hill Bingo TV sponsorship is of a new programme to be launched, the Spin Star Show.

News reached my email inbox today about two online bingo closures; both of the sites closing are part of the St Minver which doesn't really surprise me as recently we have seen a huge influx of online bingo sites opening their doors on this network. I don't think you can flood the industry with the same network and software platform and not see some online bingo closures.

Over the last few weeks we have seen many online bingo sites offering up free bingo games and news of a variation of this has just reached me. Free Bingo with William Hill Bingo is a slightly different way of offering free bingo than the norm; it comes in the form of No Lose Bingo and this means initially you do have to purchase tickets but the end result is still the same, free bingo!

News reached me today of a new promotion from one of the best known names in bingo, Mecca Bingo. The Mini Mecca Monsters are back at Mecca Bingo and have mayhem on their mind for the 28th November where they plan on giving away £25,000 in 3 hours! With tickets in the 3 hour Mini Mecca Monster Mayhem costing just 25 pence these little beggars really are up to no good!

Christmas is officially on its way and what makes me say this? Well the influx of bingo promotions coming with a Christmas theme! The latest offers all bingo players to win £5,000 with 888ladies Bingo and I am sure it is the first of many great bingo promotions coming from sites across the world wide web. What great about this promotion as it isn't restricted to one winner but five!

Christmas is fast approaching and if you have children then you will have probably been presented with the list of toys they want for Christmas. If you haven't yet been given the list, expect it soon. One online bingo site wants to help with the cost of buying some of the things on the list because PaddyPower Bingo have toy vouchers up for grabs in their latest bingo promotion.

Chatting with a colleague in the industry who is the oracle when it comes to white labelled online bingo sites he bought to my attention that the Blackpool Bingo site now redirects to Blackpool Club Bingo. So Blackpool Bingo is no more; the site is no longer there.

The latest promotion from one bingo site is the Make a Wish with New Sun Bingo which is offering 10 of their online bingo players the chance to win £500 simply by emailing in their wish list. The New Sun Bingo want you to email them your wish list of things you would buy with £500 and you'll be getting one entry for every day that you play at the site from now until November 9th.

About this time of year many people start thinking about next summer's holidays least of all because we are all sat in our winter woollies wishing we were sat on a beach sipping a Pina Colada or seven rather than watching the rain out of our windows. The Littlewoods Bingo holiday giveaway could see you winning a voucher that will help towards the cost of your next holiday that to many seems a lifetime away!

Have you noticed the chill in the air and your rising utility bills? Well Winter is upon us and with this comes the shops full of Christmas goodies and stressed out shoppers but November at Wink Bingo should bring some sun back into your lives because they have a couple of great offers in November.

Taking a look through hundreds of online bingo sites to bring you news of the best online bingo promotions is sometimes quite a tedious task and I tend to read promotions that are very similar to each other through looking at so many but this morning I found one that took my fancy. It's the Shopping Spree with bet365 Bingo and it will be one that I'm trying to win!

With the chill in the air and your heating turned up full to combat the cold you will definitely be seeing an increase in your bills in the next month but the latest promotion from one online bingo site could be helping you out. The BetFred Bingo Pay Your Bills promotion will see one lucky player having a month's bills paid thanks to this bingo site.

Virgin Bingo are probably one of the best known branded online bingo sites and as such they have a reputation to maintain; they don't seem to have failed as yet in maintaining the good name of the Virgin brand as November at Virgin Bingo sees a couple of great offers on the bingo table for all their bingo players but if you love to participate in the bingo chat rooms then one of them could have been designed for you.

Halloween is passed but Guy Fawkes night will soon be upon us and for us all as bingo players there will be even more bingo promotions being launched. The Foxy Bingo Bonfire night special is the second bingo promotion I have come across for Firework night and it promises to be explosive!