Every Wednesday without fail we check the Advertising Standards Authority web page to see if any online bingo sites have fallen foul of the Codes that regulate advertising across all media in the UK. It’s not a regular occurrence that we see a bingo brand listed but when we do we are often seen slapping […]
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Two New Sites For Live Bingo Network
Click here to play at Quackpot Bingo The Live Bingo Network has seen huge growth over the last year with many new brands launching, and while we have to admit we’re not the biggest fans, they just keep coming! This week we see a double launch from the network with two new brands in Honeybees […]
Luckiest Bingo Towns In The UK?
The National Bingo Game Association (NBGA) has just published its list of the 2015 top ten ‘luckiest’ towns in the UK which is collated by counting how many winners there were in each town over the previous year in the linked National Bingo Game. This year’s big winner is Dundee Mecca Bingo which had the […]
Fling Bingo To Launch On Wheel Of Slots Network
It’s been a long time coming but it finally looks as though the wheels are in motion for the launch of a new bingo network. It’s been over 18 months since the Wheel of Slots name first hit our ears but rumour has it that this network is finally set to make an appearance, by […]
Last Nail In Coffin Of Cardiff Bingo Hall
A while back I visited what used to be Riva Bingo in Agate Street Cardiff in an auction preview. Along with several others, I got to photograph the interior as well as the exterior, and used the photographs to create a gallery in our Lost Halls section of the website (you can see them here). […]
Lady Luck Turns Up In Leeds
If you are a regular bingo player, and you can do a bit of maths, you will know that the money you spend over the years combined with the chances of winning mean that the average player is in deficit over the long term. A night at the bingo is a night out, a bit […]
Eyes Down For Bingo Art
The London Art Fair was the venue for a unique exhibition launch on Sunday 25th of January. Unfortunately we weren’t able to make the event, but Henry/Bragg have provided a lovely series of photographs of how the opening of B.I.N.G.O. proceeded. Art exhibition launches tend to follow a standard formula: free drinks and nibbles, and […]
Shhhh Can You Keep A Bingo Secret?
A recent launch in the world of casinos online and the associated press release from the people behind the brand has us wondering if we’re soon to see a site launched called Bingo Secret or Secret Bingo. The reason that the grey matter was set to work was mention of a new Dragonfish powered bingo […]
Beacon Bingo Big Payout Night
A while back we noted that Beacon Bingo paid out a whopping £100,000 to a lucky player at their Cricklewood club. The event in November last year attracted loads of players eager to grab the in-house jackpot. There were also several four figure cash prizes in the event, so apart from the big winner there […]
Who is Bad Betty?
You may have caught an advert on television recently that features a well-known rock tune from Ram Jam called Black Betty and be wondering what it is all about. The words to the song have been altered slightly from the original song and in the commercial are sung as Bad Betty. But who is Bad […]
