Following the Kerchingo game, Gala Bingo are back on the big prize money ladder after their first ever Gala High 5 main jackpot has been won, with a jackpot prize of £874,208. The Gala prize is a bit different to the Mecca Millionaire and Big N though, because that prize money isn’t won by one […]
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Avoid Prize Share Disputes With Our Agreement
Following on from the recent posts about big money Bingo prize share disputes, I thought I’d take action myself in an attempt to help UK Bingo players avoid these disputes in future. In the last post I mentioned that maybe the clubs could provide a form that people can could use to formalise the agreement […]
England’s First Mecca Millionaire
I can’t keep up with these million pound games! Mecca were expecting 1 winner every 45 days with their massive new Mecca Millionaire prize. It’s been a bit busier than expected though, this Friday saw the third million pound prize go to an unnamed player at the Mecca Bingo Club in Stevenage. Let’s hope this […]
Legal Dispute Over 2nd Million Pound Prize
Well, just days after all my fuss over the 2nd Mecca Millionaire, the story has taken an unexpected turn for the worse. The previously unnamed pensioner has now been named as Jean McCullagh of the South Lanarkshire village Uddingston. According to the BBC’s news report, she’s in dispute with the 3 people she was playing […]
Lucky Club Bags 2nd Mecca Millionaire Prize
Well, this is just an awesome story – the 2nd Mecca Millionaire prize has been won. What makes it amazing is that it was won at the same club as the first one – Mecca’s Glasgow Forge. The £1,000,000 prize has been won there twice in 21 days, which considering the game was projected to […]
And A Quick Bingo News Round Up
As I’ve been busy preparing for and attending the Online Bingo Summit, I’ve been a bit neglectful of the news, so here’s a quick round up of some other interesting Bingo news from the last week or so. We’ll start with some big jackpot news. Mecca Bingo can claim the crown for creating the first […]
More On The Gala Kerchingo Winner
Following on from Sunday’s game, The Mirror carried a feature on the winner of online bingo’s biggest prize – Gala’s one million pound Kerchingo game. The winner, 62 year old Pauline Clarke sounds like an ideal winner. New to the internet version of the game, she qualified for the Kerchingo game with the very last […]
Bingo Winner Gets Compensation
This one should prove a warning tale to any Bingo players out there who are lucky enough to get a big win. Back in 2000, Karen Bryson won a massive £103,247.79 on the National Game. She agreed to give half to her partner for a share in his house. Unfortunately it all fell through, and […]
Scotland The Lucky
According to The National Bingo Game Association, Dundee is the luckiest place in the UK for big money National Game wins, and Scotland the number one place for National Bingo Game wins for a second year running. The break down of prizes to cities was calculated by looking at the number National Game wins over […]
Quick Round Up
There’s been a lot of interesting stories this week but I’ve been tied up getting another site off the ground. I’ll do a quick run over of the Bingo stories that have caught my eye the last week. First up, sensitive ears around the UK will be happy to hear that they will no longer […]
