This is just like giving away free cash…!

Read this Sky Bingo review - where they have got a deal for £5 completely free cash to play at Sky Bingo.  You can get another £10 free afterwards but the £5 is no-strings-attached.  If you ever wanted an excuse to play bingo but didn’t want to fork out for it - here’s your chance!

Any winning you take home are yours to keep!  It is a good site, so I would recommend putting in that extra £10 to get a total of £15 free - that makes £25 in total from just £10.  What do you think?

Having now played at Game Village I can well and truely say I’ve been sucked in!  After reading this Game Village review and finding out that I could claim £20 free without having to deposit I had to try it out!  This promotion applies to all new members, and after you’ve played with the free cash, you can (if you need to!) top up your account with the 200% cash match bonus! 

Game Village is different to most online bingo and gaming sites in that it is very much a social network, or social gaming network as they call it.  You really do feel part of the community, and I made a few good friends after just a couple of days playing there!  I guess it really helps that the large number and wide variety of games are so much fun, I just found it hard to leave.

There are far too many games, promotions and prizes etc that there is no point me even starting to go into them!  I recommend you read this Game Village, take the £20 free and try it for yourself! 

There really is nothing to lose!

Gala Bingo is going to pull out of the National Bingo Game from August this year, as reported from the statement given by the biggest UK bingo operator last night.

The company decided that sits time to concentrate on their own jackpot game. This hasn’t been on their list before as the law was different. The recent amendment to the law now allows the rollover prizes, which is why the operator grabbed the opportunity and jumped out of the common piggy bank.

The fact that Gala is going to pull out of the game, is most likely going to cause the National Bingo Game to suffer serious consequences. Gala has one third of the total 500 clubs involved in the game. When it leaves there will be just around 330-340 left to get the big jackpot going.

This is why the jackpot is most likely to become smaller. The average weekly National Bingo Jackpot has been £1 million, with a total of amazing £1 billion being paid out to winners since the game was launched in 1986.

This is most likely going to change now that Gala is out.

What do you think abut that? Is Gala doing the right thing pulling out of such National establishment or is it selfish and Gala is wrong to do so?

A player over at Foxy Bingo managed to get their hands on £50,000 after a simple technical error!  A player that should have won £500 was told that he had won 100x the original prize by the software, and Foxy bingo have since decided that they will honour the glitch!

Maybe if I keep playing it will happen to me sooner or later…. £50,000 yes please. 

Crown Bingo Easter Egg Hunt was happening during the Easter Weekend. There were over 100 entries into the competition.

Here is the list of the winners of the hunt:

1. **xxshell66xx** wins £300 superbreak vouchers

2. **leah_kennedy** wins £40 leisure vouchers

3. **xxBUBZxx** wins Spring bouquet of flowers

There are also free fiver winners. Listed below:

• **briary**
• **blueangel**
• **trendy1964**
• **musicjojo**
• **nancyhughes**
• **crash1**
• **twinkle22**
• **katostar12**
• **favgran**
• **pink74**

If your nickname is one of the above, then hurry to the site to get your prize

Bingo Chapter 1 – ‘Be gentle, this is my first time’…

As a 24 year old male, Bingo is an activity that I must confess has always been slightly strange and mysterious to me.

Images of old grannies with Blue Rinse hair, A fag hanging out of their mouth, and a little shopping trolley being pulled behind them is generally the first thing I think of when someone mentions the word Bingo to me.

Well, at least it was until I discovered that you didn’t just have to visit your local old person’s home to join in on the fun… As it turns out, you don’t even have to leave your desk (Or your home - I’m sure you wouldn’t dream of playing games during working hours)…

Anyway, after this realisation hit me, I decided to take a closer look at how bingo works, where you can play it, and what kind of people play it - all in the hope of finding out whether or not it’s actually any fun to play or not.

Having no idea how to even play the game, I confess to being a little anxious starting off here - There seems to be so much choice in terms of where you can play and even what *kind* of bingo to play - I really don’t even know where to start.

There’s plenty of alternatives to choose from, but why should you choose one place over any other? What differentiates the competition?

It all seems to come down to the bonus you get when you sign up. Talk of 10% cashback on deposits, £10 free gaming, no deposit required and competition entries all sound great, but really, what most interests me is making a quick bit of cash without much outlay.

I decided I’d give Gala Bingo a try… I was pretty sure I’d heard of them before, they offer £10 free when you deposit £10 and the advertising carries a photo of Sharon Osbourne along with it - who could possibly resist an offer like that.

I click on one of the adverts, only to be suddenly transported across the grand expanse of fiber optics that is the internet, to arrive on a page telling me more about my free £10 offer, and an even larger picture of the aforementioned X-Factor judge. Things are looking good so far.

I click on the Join now button and fill out the form - it all seems pretty straight forward so far - you choose a username, password, give them your email address and fill out the credit card information… It’s a fairly simple process and takes about 2 minutes.

Anyway, I finish the form, and I’m then redirected to the home page of the site with a great big red button presented to me announcing that you can ‘Play Bingo Now!’ - I’m feeling pretty excited at this point… I hope the effort is worth it.

I think I’ll come back here another time to play Deal or No Deal. I’m not proud to admit I enjoy the show, but there you go, it’s out there now and I can’t take it back… To be honest it’s just nice to see Noel back on Telly, especially now he isn’t joined by his custard coloured moron of a friend - Mr Blobby.

Anyway, enough about Noel, we’re here to play bingo…

The game is 90 Ball bingo, and the stakes are… Well… Surprisingly low actually…

It costs 5p a ticket, and I could potentially win around £30 - sounds ok to me… I’ve got £20 in my account and I plan to spend it all…

Aside from the bingo itself, I must confess to loving the chat room… It’s nice to know there are other humans joining in on all this exciting bingo activity.

There’s plenty of chatter going on, and surprisingly, everyone’s wishing everyone else good luck… I’ve got to say, this does seem strange, because in the end, if someone’s luck is better than yours, you’re going home empty handed…

I decide not to wish everyone luck, but instead wish them plenty of enjoyment [while I win the prize].

The basics of Bingo seem simple - it’s a bit like the lottery really.

Each ticket you buy is an entry. There are 6 tickets to a sheet, and you can buy a maximum of 5 sheets. So I have 30 chances to win every time. I like the sound of those odds.

On each ticket there are 3 rows, on each row there are 5 numbers. In order to win a prize, you need to fill in all five numbers on a row before anyone else manages to get there first. There are 3 rounds. One for the person who gets the first complete row, one for the person who gets 2 complete rows, and a final round for the person who gets all 3 rows filled out. If you win the last round, you can get the £30, if you win either of the first two you win £15.

You fill out the numbers on your sheets when they’re ‘called out’ on the screen. It’s exactly the same as the lottery really - there are 90 numbers, and they’re chosen completely at random.

I imagine a room of old men with their Bingo cages spinning around, pulling the numbers out then feverishly typing them into a computer in front of them - although I’m sure in reality it doesn’t really work like this.

Ok it sounds complicated, but really it’s not.

So I’ve bought my tickets, I’m ready to play, and I’m chatting with all the regulars in the chat room - I feel like a pro.

So, the seconds are counting down on the clock, I’ve got 30 seconds to wait until I can play… I can feel the anticipation creeping already.

Anyway, I’ll leave it there, otherwise I won’t have anything to write about next time.

Check back here in the next few days to see my next post… I’ll be filling you in with some of the nuances of the game, and you’ll be able to find out if I actually won, and if I did, how much I got.

See you then…

Just read this article, which seems very interesting, that is if you get fascinated by little legal loopholes that have always existed and made law practice a little harder.

There are these electronic machines, right… They work like slots, look like slots, some of them have spinning cherries and bar icons, but somehow they have been considered “bingo games” and were left legal even after slots were banned.

Well now some lawmakers are keen to get slots back to use the profits for certain social aspect. There is a November referendum lined up, which will reveal the results from votes “for” and “against” slot machines coming back. Some officials feel that the sole existence of so called “bingo games” is going to influence voters’ decision of whether to say yes or no to bringing back slots.

Sen. Thomas “Mac” Middleton is the governor of Southern Maryland, where these machines have spread incredibly and are now present in nearly every single bar and club and other social get-togethers.

Here is how he feels the presence of the machines will influence the November referendum outcome: “Some of us feel it puts the whole [slot machine] referendum in jeopardy. People see the machines cropping up everywhere and will say that they don’t want them anywhere. Others might say, ‘Well, I like slot machines just where they are now, I don’t need to go to any of the tracks, so why should I vote for it?’”

The second reason is the competitiveness of such machines to lottery, meaning the revenue gets split between the two, but instead of the profits going towards infrastructure and social services’ improvement in the lottery case, the profits are going to private owners and operators of these electronic machines.

Here are the words of Miller, one of the officials, who is trying to push the legalization of the slots: “These machines have sprung up almost like a disease. These are counterfeit slots, but the money goes to private entrepreneurs. It doesn’t benefit the state.”

There id nevertheless an opposing side on one hand consisting of owners and operators of tese machines, who obviously do not want to wave goodbye to the profits; on the other hand there are officials who managed to strictly regulate these machines in their starts and use the profits towards education and emergency services. There is also a third party that would stand strongly for having these machines, which is the non-profits organizations that fully or mostly rely on the revenues made from these little electronic gismos..

So here is the dilemma – How would you resolve this issue? Would you vote for or against slots? Would you leave “bingo Games” or get rid of them?

Crown Bingo will donate 50% of their prize pool to the North East Variety Club’s Children’s Charity, it has been reported.

Crown Bingo decided to demonstrate their corporate social responsibility this Valentine’s day by choosing to donate 50% of their prize pool to the North East Variety Club’s Children’s Charity.

All of the prize polls, that will be in action from 7pm until 9pm on the Valentine’s Day, Thursday 14th, will be cut in half with the fair 50% share going to the children’s charity.

There are also additional £10, which will be donated to the Variety Club, when a new player registers an account with a bonus code ILOVEU. There is also a benefit for the player, who will get a £10 bonus on top.

This is what Dan Smyth, managing director of Crown Bingo, had to say about the generosity his bingo site decided to express on the day of love: “We always like to support a local charity and when we heard about the Variety Club’s Gold Heart Appeal on Valentine’s Day it seemed like a perfect link up.”

Norman Kaphan, Chief Executive for The Variety Club said this: “Whether raising money to build a pediatric unit, donating a Sunshine Coach to a school or taking a group of children on a fun-packed ‘Variety at Work’ day out, Variety Club aims to make a real difference. Pledge your support for The Variety Club and buy a gold heart today.”
Do you think this is a good idea? Do you like when companies that are usually concerned with ethical issues demonstrate their social responsibility, does it make you change your opinion of them? Even a little bit…

Wow saw that Foxy Bingo are now giving users £10 Free no deposit to try out their site - play their quite a bit and got my fiver free but seems that they’re now taking it one step further to compete with the big guys (Gala, Sun etc) and giving away a whopping tenner completely free - gutted wished I waited til now to get all that free money. Seems that they are all doing it, could play bingo for money nearly every day and never need to deposit -thats my sort of game he he. Apparently they are ditching Jordan too as the face of Foxy and just replacing her with good old Foxy - what are your thoughts on this? Like Jordan or prefer foxy - personally don;t give a damn just like the good promos and sign up offers

Catch you later.. I am off for a dabble

Riva Gambling Group situated in Sutton, south west London is now officially the owner of the first ever in England fully electronic bingo club.

The Gala Group makes a use of more than 600 handled terminals as a substitute for the usual paper bingo tickets.

The terminals have more games than what’s on offer in the traditional bingo halls and they also provide consumers with more different options.

The Riva Club at the moment is only electronic bingo hall, so it has achieved an early monopolistic position in this sub-market that has been moving into the bingo lovers’ lives through sources of media and introduction of some elements in traditional halls.

Riva Group is hoping this will attract new audiences, as the game will become more modernised and high-tech.

What do you thionk about this, guys? Do you like the idea of having robo-bingo or not?

It will definately feel like a alien idea at first, but I think after a while this could indeed attract different players. The only concern that I have is will this new market feel like an invasion for the loyal bingo players who might just turn around and leave as the whole thing is changed now