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Latest: Bingo Numbers: History And Meanings
In her latest article, historian Dr. Carolyn Downs explores the history of bingo number names, taking an in-depth look at their origins, meanings and place in the English language.
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Playing Bingo Blog And Bingo News
Our blog section below features news and opinions on the world of bingo, both retail and online. Events, legal issues, player problems, special offers and more will be featured in the blog. Stay up to date with the RSS feed.
Ladbrokes Bingo has been offering some impressive welcome bonuses to new players for a while now, some of the best across the entire Virtue Fusion platform in fact. Just over a month ago they started offering a massive 300% deposit bonus, and now they’ve extended that offer into a £50 bonus bundle!
The sign up bonus is just the same as it was; register for an account with Ladbrokes Bingo, deposit £10 and play it through on bingo tickets, and you’ll receive a 300% deposit bonus, or £30 free to play bingo with.
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Recently we bought you news that Vinnie Jones is the front man for newly re-launched Daily Star Bingo and now you can see him advertising the brand on television. The commercial starts with the well-known ‘hard man’ in suit in front of signage for Jones Jones and Jones, Personal Injury Lawyers. He asks the question ‘Have you had an accident at work lately?’ before the famous snarl appears and he asks ‘ Well do I look like a nurse?’ and telling the viewer that they need to be a bit more careful.
The Daily Star Bingo commercial continues with Vinnie using the attention grabbing start to the advert to use a laptop to sell the wares of the brand. When all of that has been done, Vinnie simply says ‘I couldn’t have put it better myself”. The advert ends with Vinnie stating the web address for the brand before saying ‘Officially more fun than falling of a ladder.’
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Foxy Bingo mobile has been around for quite some time but their first ever offering was operated by Probability Games Ltd. However, with the addition of mobile gaming to 888 Holdings and their bingo sites, this is no longer the case and you’ll find a completely different Foxy Bingo mobile experience to that available in the past.
To tempt their players to try their games on the move Foxy Bingo are offering a little incentive, deposit £20 or more into your Foxy Bingo account through your mobile phone and you will receive a branded mobile phone cover. The addition of the ability to fund your account through your mobile is a fairly new feature and one that wasn’t available when the 888 mobile first launched.
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Barbara Windsor has always been the queen of good clean smut, so now that she’s the queen of Jackpot Joy too, maybe it should come as no surprise that the company’s new bingo advert is a little on the risqué side. the Queen of Bingo herself launches herself onto the stage in this new advert, dressed in her regal finery and acting as the hostess for a fancy gameshow Quickity Pick.
Barbara’s giggle is a euphemism for sauciness itself, and hearing it means you usually know something is coming up. In the case of this bingo ad it’s the kilts that are coming up as Barbara Windsor invites players to guess the Scotsman in this exciting new advert from Jackpot Joy. It’s difficult to concentrate on the message of the advert once you get to the dying seconds of the ad and those kilts blow up!
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In April 2011 Daily Star Bingo closed because the Cyberbingo network was disbanded however yesterday we discovered that the brand has made reappearance in the world of online bingo as Daily Star Games and what’s more, Vinnie Jones appears to be the face of the brand!
It was only a short while ago that another brand hit by the closure of the Cyberbingo network re-launched, Daily Express Bingo but whilst these two newspaper brands have chosen G2 Gtech to power their product, the flagship brand of the defunct network chose to launch again their Cyberbingo product with Dragonfish.
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Bingo ads often find themselves in the spotlight with the ASA, and often it’s because of bad gaming practices or unclear terms and conditions, but the latest ASA ruling against Vernons Bingo could have repercussions right across all Virtue Fusion sites.
The latest advert from the site states that when players deposit £10, they can receive £30 of freeplay, and this is true, but what the advert doesn’t say is that (as is pretty standard to Virtue Fusion) players must wager their £10 on bingo tickets before they receive their £30 freeplay at Vernons Bingo.
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Around Playing Bingo
Elsewhere on the site you'll find loads of great content on the game - below is list of what's available here for you.
Land Bingo
As the name suggests, the Land Bingo section of the site features information on high street version of the game, played at bingo clubs all around the UK. Here's what's there for you:
- Bingo Guides - Our guides section will help you get to grips with a number of bingo related issues. Covering different aspects of the game they'll give you the advice you need.
- Club Finder - Find a club in your town, and don't forget to send us your reviews of the clubs you play at. The UK's largest bingo club directory.
- Bingo History - The UK's largest online collection of UK bingo history materials and information. Find out about the game's colourful history and culture here.
- Lost Bingo Halls - The UK's only online archive of bingo halls that have fallen by the wayside, photos, comments and history on some of bingo's fallen palaces.
- Old News Section - Our archive of old content from older versions of the site. The content here is still of interest to bingo fans, but archived in its own section as it is no longer updated.
Mobile Bingo
One of the newest ways of playing bingo, the game on mobile platforms is still in its infancy. Rest assured, we'll help keep you up to date in our Mobile Bingo section.
- Platforms - If you don't know your dongle from you WAP, take a look at our quick guide on the technology and platforms of the mobile gaming world.
- Reviews - Using our tried and tested play testing and review criteria, we take a look at what's hot and what's not in the world of mobile bingo.
Online Bingo
For those that enjoy a game of bingo without leaving the house, our Online Bingo section features loads of great info to help you choose the best bingo sites to play at, the best deals, and the pitfalls of playing bingo online.
- Bonuses & Promo Codes - Find out about the many bonuses available for online players, and any extra bonuses we've been able to arrange on your behalf.
- Complaints - If you've been cheated by an online bingo site, or found yourself with a grievance, then check out our complaints section to see what satisfaction you can get.
- Facebook Bingo - In the last couple of years, a number of popular bingo games have appeared on Facebook. We review them in our Facebook Bingo section.
- Free Bingo - Playing for free for cash prizes has become a big hit in the online bingo world. Take a look at our list of some of the most popular free sites and free offers.
- Funding Methods - This section is a guide to what sorts of payment methods you can use with online bingo, and lists which sites tale which payment methods.
- Networks - Bingo networks are an integral part of the online experience, but most players know little about networking and what it means. Find out who's networked and who isn't.
- Reviews - We've reviewed and play tested all the most popular bingo sites, as well as many you've probably never heard of before. Get the low down in our reviews section.
- Slots & Side Games - Many a bingo player likes to spend a bit of time playing the various side games on offer. Our guide reviews some of the most popular.
- Software - Despite there being hundreds of online bingo sites, there are only a handful of software solutions powering the games. Find out which one your favourite site runs on here.
General Bingo
As well as our three dedicated sections, there are a number of other sections of the site which cover areas that would fit well in to both the land and online sections, rather than to just the one of them.
- Articles And Interviews - Editorial and interviews on different aspects of bingo, from industry events to legal info and review of people involved in the game.
- Blog And Bingo News - You'll see the latest posts above, but if you want to delve deeper, this page will get you in to all our older posts on the new blog.
- Competitions And Prizes - Creative challenges and the chance to win prizes, take a look what competitions we have on.
- Creative Corner - Fancy a bit of bingo culture? Our Creative Corner is right for you. Art, writing, photography and more, all inspired by the game.
- Gallery - A section to quickly find the visual things we have on the site. From the Flickr groups to the club images and other stuff.
- Shop - A range of different bingo related items, from tickets and pens through to games and DVDs. Take a look and see if what you need's there.
And finally, if you'd like to contact us you can do it here: Contact Playing Bingo, and if you want to find out about who runs the site, visit our About Us page.
