Their online bingo operation ‘Paddy Power Bingo’ has certainly contributed to this success and they are now working fast to introduce a mobile bingo app to compete with rivals, Mecca Bingo.

Paddy Power never rest on their laurels and their easy to use, well designed site is always up to date with new promotions, low stake games, new player bonuses, big cash games and jackpots. Tempting current offers include a Big Monday Night game with a guaranteed prize pot of £2500 and a daily game at 9pm worth up to £500.

New players who spend £5 on bingo games can claim a Bonus £20 and will be invited to Paddy’s New Player Party, where there will be £100 of Free Bingo games to play as well as plenty of penny bingo games. Two new bingo games, Deal or No Deal and Cash Bingo, which is a mini version of the 80 ball bingo usually known as parti bingo in bingo halls, are Paddy’s latest offerings. Paddy Power Bingo certainly work hard to keep customers old and new happy, with their emphasis on customer service and good value for money it’s no surprise they manage to stay on ‘top of the game’.

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Sun Bingo is a fantastic bingo site and the guys over there are committed to bringing fresh and exciting incentives to all of their lovely, loyal customers.

And if ‘Spend £10 Get £30′ isn’t enough for you to get signed up then maybe I should also mention that all new players will receive the massive 200% welcome bonus when they join!!!

And existing Sun Bingo players are not forgotten either, as they will benefit from a 50% bonus on all reloads whilst the current advert airs.

Independence Day at Crown Bingo: Monday 4th July. To celebrate American Independence Day they are offering players 10% cash back, up to £5 on US75 Ball Bingo on July 4th.

Be a Millionaire: Wednesday 6th July- Tuesday 12th July. Players will get the chance to be a millionaire by receiving a £1 free spin on the Big Top Tombola slot, which is currently the largest jackpot available on site.

Harry Potter Tournament: Friday 8th- Sunday 10th July. Harry Potter Tournament will take place between Friday 8th Sunday 10th July in Room 2 between 6pm-8pm. Players will earn points by winning on bingo games and at the end of the tournament the top three players could win any of the following: Family cinema ticket (4 cinema tickets), Harry Potter DVD box set or 2 cinema tickets.

Crown Bingo Studio Live Wacky Races: Friday 8th- Sunday 10th July. Bingo Studio Live will be celebrating the Grand Prix with their very own Wacky Races between these dates:
Top Gear Tournament- Winners of the the top gear tournament between 2-3pm will all be added to a leader board. At the end of the event the player at the top of the leader board on the final day will win a £50 Red Letter Day voucher.

Brake or Race- Full House winners between 5-6pm will be able to take part in the Brake or Race game where there is a fantastic £50 bingo bonus up for grabs. Players will have three chances to make it around the track by spinning the wheel to see where they land. For every bonus fund they land on, the player has the option to ‘brake’ or ‘race’ until their third final spin of the wheel, in which they win the final bonus amount. If a player manages to reach the finish line in their three turns they will win £50 bingo bonus.

Crown Bingo Studio Live’s Garden Party: Tuesday 12th July-Tuesday 19th July. Bingo Studio Live will be hosting a garden party between these dates with 3 themed games; Spot the Gnome- The first player to spot the Gnome on screen and type “Hello Mr Gnome” will receive £1 bingo bonus. Mystery Treats- Players will be able to join the presenters between 6-7pm for this tasty game. Each full house winner will be allocated with a Mystery Box, at the end of the hour one of the numbers will be picked randomly and the prize inside the box will be revealed to the winner(s) assigned to that Mystery Box. Players will win tasty treats such as cupcakes.

Harry Potters Spell: Wednesday 13th July. To celebrate the release of the final Harry Potter movie we are hosting an interactive promotion which offers players the choice of 6 promotions. The promotions will be hidden behind 6 ‘spells’, of which the player chooses 1 to cast on Karl (the bingo caller). The offers will range from cash back on bingo or slots, losses returned on bingo or slots to Free £1 bingo bonus.

Bingo Studio Live’s Harry Potter Day: Friday 15th July. The Harry Potter movie is due for release in cinemas on Friday 15th July. Bingo Studio Live fans will be able to join the presenters on this day for Harry Potter themed chat games between 12-1pm and 4-5pm where they will get the chance to win Harry Potter DVD box sets and Cinema Tickets.

Charity Bingo: Charity Bingo will take place on Wednesday 13th July between 7-9pm in room 2. This month we will be supporting The Toby Henderson Trust which helps support families who have children with Autism. We will be donating 50% of the prize pot of games between these hours to this fantastic charity.

And finally…A new Deal or No Deal 75 ball bingo room will be available from the 19th July. Between these dates we will be offering players a free trial of this room with 100% losses returned up
to £5. Players will receive their losses as bingo bonus and will be credited at the end of the period.

And after all of that, if you still can’t enough of it then head on over to Crown Bingo where they have a really well-timed promotion for all of it’s lovely bingo customers.

It is the last week of Wimbledon and to celebrate at Crown Bingo, Wimbledon Fever will be hitting Bingo Studio Live between Monday 27th June and Sunday 3rd July!!

Be a full house winner at Crown Bingo during the Wimbledon hours and you will have the chance to play one of our tennis themed games which include On the Line, Lucky Balls and Game Set Match! There is lots of Bingo Bonus to be won, so take your seats and enjoy a nice bowl of strawberries and cream with a week of tennis highlights brought to you by all of your favourite presenters!

In celebration of the long awaited Royal wedding this year, starting on the 11th of April, Paddy Power Bingo will be throwing the biggest and longest ever hen party and would like you to join them.

Like any good hen party, it’s going to be packed with mischief and challenges! Paddy will throw you new hen party challenges weekly and each challenge you pass will earn you a golden ticket to their massive £/?10,000 Wedding Crashers game on the day of the Royal Wedding on 29th April! Players can join the Party any time between the 11th and 29th of April, and remember the more challenges you pass the more tickets you’ll have and hence more chance you have of winning ROYALLY BIG!!

You can expect lots of fun from 6pm to 11pm on the 1st of April as they are mixing up the prize board in one room with random 1 line, 2 line and Full House payouts. So winning 1 line might be a better prize than winning the full house!

They will also have chat games with a twist, as they will not announce how much they can win for the chat game. Prizes will be between 10p and £10 and players will only know how much they have won until after they win the chat game!

For great fun at Mecca Bingo this April Fools Day just head on over and open an account!

On offer are 4 x £3,000 prizes of Home Improvement vouchers, all to be won this month so don’t miss out – sign-up and play today. Because all you have to do to be in with a chance to win one of these recession busting prizes is to play £5 on Bingo or £20 on Slots between Monday February 28 and Sunday March 27 and you’ll receive one draw entry for each day that you play.

Sun Bingo will announce one winner every Monday in March at 8pm and if you’re not already a member then you can also take advantage of their new customer bonus! They’re offering a 100% cash match on your first deposit to get you started on all of their great games.

That’s free cash to play with – simply make a first deposit of £10 to £100 and they’ll double you money. Join Sun Bingo now!

Monster Bingo appears on Wednesday 23rd February, you have 5 chances to win on this game, the full house is worth £5000 and a guaranteed £10000 is paid overall, this game will feature monthly and be played on the last wednesday of the month.

Bingo Buffet is open every day and between 2and3pm 1p tickets are available on every game, just the job while waiting to pick the kids up, you’re hardly going to loose your shirt at this price! Chit Chat Bingo have the usual £10 minimum deposit to which they will add a £20 bonus so you have £30 to play with. Depositing larger amounts will increase your bonus money and give entry to their current prize draw which has everything from chocs and champagne to relaxation days and helicopter rides for 2 to be won. Somebody has to win so give them a try, you never know you could be up,up and away!

This year, Jackpot Joy Bingo are opening the doors to an exclusive Red Nose Day Bingo Room that comes with big smiles and a £250 Super Jackpot that can be won if you complete your card in less than 48 calls.

There’s also an exclusive Scratch Card that offers the chance to win £5,000 in an instant!

Red Nose Day Bingo Room is open between midday to midnight, the Scratch Card’s available 24/7 and all profits from both the room and the Scratch Card go straight to help the good causes as supported by Comic Relief.

So this year, as well as doing something funny for money, why don’t you help raise money from the comfort of your living room while playing the nation’s favourite game!

A minimum of 1% per stake from Scratch cards and 1p from every 10p bingo ticket is donated to Comic Relief.

Well if you’ve had enough of these high rollers then Paddy Power Bingo have a new game just for you – Paddy’s Fairground, where everyone has a fair chance when they play bingo. The room is open from 4pm-10pm Friday to Sunday.

Everybody buys the same number of tickets for a game and pays the same price to enter! It’s packed full of Fair For All and Even Stevens, and they have now got a whole room devoted to it! Because everyone is on a level playing field, all those involved in the bingo game have an equal chance of winning that big bingo jackpot! I think this is a great development for online bingo, round of applause to Paddy Power Bingo for introducing it.

Individuals who like to play bingo and have stopped since the smoking ban has been introduced may be interested in a new activity taking place.

Drive-in bingo has been created and is taking place in Meath, which is located in eastern Ireland.

Seamus Davis, organiser of the event, said it is starting to gain in popularity and he thinks it will continue to grow.

“It’s … a great laugh and there’s been a lot of positive reaction. You can relax in your own car … and enjoy the game and not worry about parking,” he added.

The biggest attraction for people is the opportunity to take up smoking with their bingo games again, something that many people appear to enjoy.

It is also taking place in a number of other counties in the island, including Dublin and Wexford.

Mr Davis remarked once people get there, all they have to do is buy a book and turn their car off, making it very easy for the competitors.

Once again ordinary people come up with ingenious solutions to the self righteous and their love of banning things people enjoy. Thank god Puritanism never really caught on in Ireland… “Puritanism – the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

The campaign features 10 different adverts which also introduce the ‘Queen of Bingo’s’ faithful courtier ‘Jack’ and glamorous bringer of luck ‘Joy’. During the course of the campaign every UK adult is expected to see the ad, on average, over 23 times.

To celebrate Jackpot Joy Bingo also have enhanced the Welcome Bonus to 200% Welcome Bonus up to £200 meaning that players get £20 FREE!

Details: BBs do not qualify you for this promotion ~ Promotion runs from Friday 20th – Sunday 22nd midnight ~ Only for Paddy Power Bingo players ~ Paddy Power hold the right to alter, end or suspend all promotions without warning.

Summer Sizzler
Everyone loves summer and with Paddy’s Summer Sizzler you are going to fall in love with it all over again, not only is he giving away £/€100 everyday but now he has added a fantastic Summer Goody Bag to the deal!
Simply spend £/€10 in a day on bingo and email us how you plan to make the most of your summer and the best entry of the day will win £/€100 & the runner up a Summer Goody Bag compliments of Paddy

Last Chance Saloon
You have more chances of winning with Last Chance Saloon. We are offering a free scratch card on a selected game for everyone who is unlucky enough not to win in the main bingo game. There are 3 Last Chance Saloon games in the Sapphire room on Thursday night between 8pm and 11pm. Last Chance Saloon also runs hourly in the Gold room from 9.54am right up to midnight.

Whether your vice is shoes, handbags or cosmopolitans we want to know about it! Simply spend £/€10 on bingo in one day and email us how you would get Carried Away with £/€100 to promotions@paddypower.com, the best suggestion of the day will be credited £/€100!

This new promotion is just one of many that Paddy Power Bingo is running, you can also enter ‘Bingo’s Got Talent’ Paddy will reward players with £50 to improve your well established, or maybe red raw talent. Are you confident enough to show yourself to the world?

Details Of The Sex And The City Promo:

• Promotion runs from 17th – 31st May
• Only for Paddy Power Bingo players
• Players must stake £/€10 on bingo to qualify for that day’s draw
• Tickets bought with BBs do not qualify
• One entry will be chosen each day from players who have staked £/€10 on bingo
• Players may only enter this draw once a day
• Winners will be published onsite
• Winners will be credited their funds within 48 hours
• No limit of wins apply, players who qualify each day can win each day
• We hold the right to alter, change or suspend all promotions without warning

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Their star prize is a meal at one of Gordon Ramsay’s fabulous London restaurants. The gift vouchers are from his website so you can use them at any of his London restaurants and are worth £250! As this is a big prize it can only be won at the 7pm bingo game which will be available through the pre buy page.

There are also six smaller prizes which will be given away during various chat games on the day and are as follows:

1. Pampering day for two – red letter day.
2. Makeover and photo shoot for two – red letter day.
3. Jewellery – £50 love2shop vouchers which can be used at the majority of high street jewellers.
4. Perfume – £50 gift card to the perfume shop.
5. All About Mum selection of chocolates from Hotel Chocolat x 2.

And don’t worry there is plenty to go around as there will be 3 prizes given out per chat game session! So now you know what’s on offer why not sign-up with Crown Bingo today adn make the most of Mother’s Day this year!

As part of the promotion they’ve chosen prizes that all have a musical theme and they’ve got loads of gifts and gadgets to give away and the best thing is it’s so easy to enter!

For every £10 you deposit and spend at Crown Bingo by the 26th February, will get you one entry into their prize draw to win one of the following:

iPod Nano
iPod Touch
iPod Dock
Ticket Master vouchers
£25 itunes vouchers
Top 5 albums

There’s no limit on entries so the more you play, the more entries in to their prize draw you’ll receive! This new promotion is not just for new customers so if you’re a current player on Crown Bingo then login today to start getting yours!

All those who bingo on the number 14 from the 1st – 10th February in Rooms 1, 2 or 3 will be entered into a prize draw and be in with as chance of winning one of their romantic gifts which include a gourmet escape for two, box of chocolates, bottle of bubbly or a large bouquet of flowers.

And if Valentines isn’t your thing how about a musical theme inspired by the Brits on February 16th? Every player who deposits and spends £10 between 11th to 26th February will be entered into a prize draw to win some fantastic music prizes such as iPods, concert tickets and cd’s. Every £10 deposit and spent will equal one entry so the more you spend the better the chance you have of winning.

Don’t forget the new player cash match either. Make your first deposit today and Crown Bingo will double your first deposit up to £250! So if you deposit £30 today, they’ll give you another £30 for free. Can’t say fairer than that!

Congratulations to 12plumpkin from South Wales who won a massive £21,000 on Saturday, 16th January in Mecca’s weekly escalator jackpot.

Lucky 12plumpkin has been a loyal fan of Mecca bingo for the last five years and can often be found in her favourite bingo room, Little Ducks, commenting: I love playing bingo online and have been a member of Mecca for a long time now, so it’s absolutely amazing to win! When I first realised I’d won £21,000 I had no real reaction as I was just so stunned. I shouted to my husband to tell him and he came running in and picked me up! To be honest I was a little scared that it was going to be a horrible nightmare and I’d find out that I hadn’t won, that was until I saw the money in my account! I’m going to give it a few weeks before I decide what to do with the money, but I think a holiday with the family is on the cards. I have two sons and five grandchildren and it would be nice to treat them.

The Mecca bingo £20,000 January Jackpots are easy to win. Simply play any standard 90 ball bingo online and if it hasn’t gone by each Saturday, the ball count needed to win will increase to ensure one lucky customer walks away with the cash!

Every Friday at 8 pm the Full House winner in Room 2, as well as walking away with their winnings, will also receive one of Crown Bingo’s fabulous year long gifts. Just make sure that you are a depositing player to be in with a chance and it’s limited to one prize per person so you can’t win every week but that’s okay, we’re not greedy!

So what exactly are these gifts I hear you ask?? Well here they are:

Friday 8th – winner – a cake every month for a year
Friday 15th - winner – a box of Hotel Chocolat treats every month for a year
Friday 22nd – winner – year’s supply of lush goodies, runners up
Friday 29th – winner – a year’s supply of bingo

Seriously yummy stuff on offer and don’t despair if you’re not lucky enough to scag the major prize because Crown Bingo will also be rewarding those who took part and bought bingo tickets during the game. Every player will automatically be entered into a prize draw and two will be chosen at random to win runner up prizes!

Christmas and New Year were over in a flash, the weather is dismal and most of us are well and truly broke so what better way to cheer ourselves up than to capitalise on the very generous Mecca Bingo who are guaranteeing £20,000 in jackpots every single week starting today – 4th January 2010.

The cash is up for grabs in the 33 ball games and even more exciting, Mecca Bingo have promised that if the Jackpot is not won during the week, on Saturday they will increase the ball count you need to win a full house from 4pm to guarantee the £20,000 will be won by midnight!!

And don’t despair if you don’t win the big prize because Mecca are also guaranteeing that each time the £20,000 is won they will share an extra £1000 between everyone who bought a ticket for that game!

It just couldn’t be any easier to scoop a couple of extra quid to brighten up your January than to play at Mecca Bingo.

The ‘Twist’ in Family Fortune bingo is that players are matched up into to families of four. If any one of the family members wins, then all the family members win! It increase your chances of landing in the prize money and adds extra excitement to the game.

You can use the chat room on Jackpot Joy to socialize with your new found family members too, the prize money on offer isn’t massive, but the ticket prices to play are cheap. Family Fortunes isn’t the only bingo game at Jackpot Joy Bingo, you can play Price Is Right Bingo, Full House Bingo (Big Jackpot Games) plus 100s of instant wins, scratch cards and fruit machines.

I’ve produced a little video preview of the Family Fortunes bingo game below, just click the screen to watch. If you want to play the game for real Click Here.

Mark you calendars for Wednesday 16th December for the Roomie Christmas Party which they are going to pack with with sensational seasonal chat and bingo games as well as cracking give-aways including everyone’s favourite Christmas DVD’s and CD’s.

And to make the most of it just make a deposit by Tuesday 15th December to qualify for a free £5 bonus for the party. So what are you waiting for – if you’re not already a member then sign-up with Crown Bingo today and if you already do play there pop along and join in the fun on Wednesday 16th December from 6pm in Room 2!!!

They have five different things going on over the next few weeks so there’s absolutely going to be something to suit you…

Countdown to Christmas: Play either £2 on bingo or £10 on slots and and every day 10 lucky winners will be drawn to get the prize of the day e.g. today’s is £125 cash! You can also pick up PS3′s, sat nav’s, iPod’s and tonnes more…

BOGOF Bingo: Buy any standard Bingo 90 ticket and get another bingo ticket absolutely free. You can play every day from December 15th to 21st at 11am-12pm, 2-4pm and 6pm-8pm so plenty of choice!

Penny Bingo: Games on every single day where all cards are just 1p and the jackpot is a guaranteed £50!

Christmas Cracker: £10,000 jackpot up for grabs on Wednesday December 23rd – you gotta be in it to win it!!

Free Bingo: Every Tuesday in the Fashion Club is Free Bingo with £10 for one line, £15 for two lines and £50 for a full house. Games held between 8pm and 10pm, so keep your Tuesday nights free!

With all that going on I really don’t think you need any more incentive to get yourself to Sun Bingo today!

So bingo clubs are still paying 5% more in taxation than in 2009. No wonder online bingo is booming! The combination of the smoking ban, tax rise and the credit crunch has resulted in many bingo halls in England closing their doors. The UK Bingo tax is totally unfair, it amounts to a special tax on Bingo revenue. Bingo clubs, like all businesses, are subject to normal corporation tax on their profits. The Bingo tax rate has been applied only to land based bingo halls and all other forms of gaming, like sports betting, fruit machines and casinos enjoy the lower tax rate. Like most bingo players I believe that this tax is discriminatory, wrong, unfair and should be withdrawn.

The prizes will be given away in chat games, which run between 7.30 and 9pm on Saturday and 8-9pm on Sunday. Plus, Paddy Power Bingo be adding £500 each to selected jackpot games on both nights as follows: 20:48 Paddy’s 10p – £500, 21:24 Paddy’s 20p – £500, 21:48 Paddy’s 25p – £500. Even if you’re no Leona Lewis, I’m sure you’ll agree that these are prizes worth singing about, so make sure you join the fun on Paddy Power Bingo this weekend.

If you’re looking for something a little different to the usual cash match when you join a new bingo site then maybe Mecca Bingo have come up with the perfect promotion for you!

They have decided that their ‘Newbie’ bingo room was such a success last month that they are offering it across the board as their major new customer promotion.

So now you can play totally for FREE when you join up. How it works is like this… all new Mecca Bingo customers get to play bingo for FREE in their exclusive ‘newbie’ room but with a twist because the jackpots are for real cash.

You play in the special ‘Newbie’ room from 12-2pm and 7-9pm every day, so you can learn the ins and outs of how to play online bingo at no cost to yourself. And the best bit is that the jackpots in every game will be at least £25 and they’ll have their most experienced Chat Moderators (CMs) in the room to make sure any questions you have are answered right away.

You can also play as much as you want in the ‘newbie room’ so you can keep coming back and trying your luck!

Wednesday December 2nd (21:03 Room 2) – HD ready TV
Friday December 4th (21:03 Room 2) – £100 TicketMaster
Sunday December 6th (21:03 Room 2) – Nintendo Wii
Tuesday December 8th (21:03 Room 2) – Red Letter Day  – Ferrari Driving Thrill
Thursday December 10th (21:03 Room 2) – Digital Camera
Saturday December 12th (21:03 Room 2) – Shopping Spree
Monday December 14th (21:03 Room 2) – iPod touch
Wednesday December 16th (21:03 Room 2) – Weekend Break Away (£300)
Friday December 18th (21:03 Room 2) – Netbook/Laptop
Sunday December 20th (21:03 Room 2) – Red Letter Day – Gourmet Escape for Two
Tuesday December 22nd (21:03 Room 2) –  Sim Free Mobile Phone
Thursday December 24th (21:03 Room 2) – Red Letter Day -  Pampering Day

And playing won’t break the bank either. Games are going to be 50p and the prizes for each game fixed at £10 1 line, £10 2 lines, £25 for the full house.

There is so much stuff up for grabs that you’ll be thrilled when you see what’s on offer – LCD TV’s, iPod Touches, PS3′s and much, much more. And being in with a chance of winning could not be any easier. All you have to do is just spend £2 on bingo or £10 on slots in a day and every day 10 lucky winners will scoop the prize of the day.

You can even check out the daily prize by clicking on the Christmas tree baubles on Sun Bingo so if there’s something you’re totally desperate for then you’ll know when to play.

Of course there’s more to Sun Bingo than just this Christmas giveaway – join today and they’ll give you 100% cash match bonus. So make a first deposit of £10 and get £20 to play with! Fastest way to double your money ever…

From the 1st December to the 12th there will be daily jackpots of £50 to £500 every 15 minutes with a guaranteed daily prize pool total of at least £3,250. And, best of all, the tickets for these games are even cheaper and start from as little as 5p.

Over the 12 days, Mecca Bingo will be giving away a whopping £39,000!!!!! Games start at 7.30pm everyday in Two Little Ducks or Key to the Door rooms and the jackpots will rise every 15 minutes, so what are you waiting for – get yourself to Mecca Bingo NOW!!!

As bingo action happens very quick, most players using a kind of short hand to speed things up, it’s a bit like teenagers and txting. Bingo chat acronyms can be very confusing to new player. So we’ve have put together a list of the most common ones used online.

Live chat is one of the best features of playing bingo online, you can make some great friends online and sometimes it can lead to even more! Lots of men play online bingo too! It pays to make an effort to get involved in the chat too, often a bingo site will give away free bingo tickets and prizes to those who actively chat lots. Jackpot Joy Bingo is one of the best and funniest bingo chat rooms.

AFAIK…. As far as I know
AFK…. Away from keyboard
AFK2P…. Away from keyboard (to pee)
ASAP…. As soon as possible
BB…. Be back later
BF…. Boyfriend
BLNT…. Better luck next time
BRB…. Be right back
BTW…. By the way
CYA…. See ya
CYAL8R…. See ya all later
FWIW…. For what it’s worth
FYI…. For your information
GF…. Girlfriend
GG…. Good going (good game)
GL…. Good luck
GLA…. Good luck all
GLE…. Good luck everyone
GMTA….Great minds think alike
GTSY…. Good to see you
H&A…. Hug and kiss
HB…. Hurry back
IGP…. I gotta pee
JK…. Just kidding
JMO…. Just my opinion
JTLYK…. Just to let you know
KIT…. Keep in touch
L8R…. Later
L8R G8R…. Later gator

So what are you waiting for? Get yourself to Crown Bingo every evening to Room 2 for the game that starts at 21.03pm to be in with a chance to scoop a pressie guaranteed to make your Christmas even better than you planned.

And if that wasn’t enough CM Santa will be spreading Christmas Joy throughout Crown Bingo this December and popping in to Room 1, 2 or 3 wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! The first Roomie to wish him a Merry Christmas when he enters the room wins £5 bingo bonus!

1. Wednesday December 2nd (21:03 Room 2) – HD ready TV
2. Friday December 4th (21:03 Room 2) – £100 TicketMaster
3. Sunday December 6th (21:03 Room 2) – Nintendo Wii
4. Tuesday December 8th (21:03 Room 2) – Red Letter Day – Ferrari Driving Thrill
5. Thursday December 10th (21:03 Room 2) – Digital Camera
6. Saturday December 12th (21:03 Room 2) – Shopping Spree
7. Monday December 14th (21:03 Room 2) – iPod touch
8. Wednesday December 16th (21:03 Room 2) – Weekend Break Away (£300)
9. Friday December 18th (21:03 Room 2) – Netbook/Laptop
10. Sunday December 20th (21:03 Room 2) – Red Letter Day – Gourmet Escape for Two
11. Tuesday December 22nd (21:03 Room 2) – Sim Free Mobile Phone
12. Thursday December 24th (21:03 Room 2) – Red Letter Day – Pampering Day

Launched on 14th November as part of Mecca Bingo’s ‘Be Lucky’ campaign, members can claim this latest £50,000 cash prize by simply visiting Mecca Bingo and playing any standard 90 ball bingo game. The jackpot must be won in the next 72 hours and to ensure one lucky winner claims it, from Monday 30th November, Mecca Bingo will make it even easier to win by increasing the number of balls called every 30 minutes from 4pm.

The luck will also be spread amongst the remaining players in the room at the time the jackpot is claimed, by sharing out a community bonus of £5,000, giving everyone something to celebrate! Oh and keep an eye out for Mecca’s brand new television advert, celebrating almost 50 years of handing out prizes to lucky players. Showing nationwide now, you can’t miss the huge pink boxes and the catchy theme tune “Luck be a lady”!

For your chance to get lucky and win big this weekend, visit Mecca Bingo now. You can also read our full review of Mecca Bingo here.

There are of course plenty of tips to being more successful when you play such as finding a game that isn’t overcrowded in order to get a better shot at the jackpot! Remember though that the larger the group, the larger the prize is likely to be. Smaller games also give you a better opportunity to chat to your fellow players, and provide you with the chance to get advice from more seasoned players.

Online bingo also has the huge advantage of enabling you to play loads of cards at once, thereby increasing your chances of winning – imagine trying to mark hundreds of cards at a time by hand! Playing bingo online also allows you to choose to have your bingo cards auto-marked by the computer and the tickets are generally much cheaper than in the bingo halls and cost, on average, around 10p, so you definitely won’t break the bank by having a game!

However, if you are looking for bigger prizes, try playing games that have higher priced cards or look for offers where the jackpots are guaranteed. There are always great deals on offer – some bingo sites offer welcome bonuses, for example Jackpot Joy Bingo offer a 100% cash match up to £100, while Paddy Power Bingo offers buy one game card, get one free deals!!!

Just remember that bingo is purely a game for fun, and it should be remembered that it is at the end of the day, a game of chance! There is nothing you can do or skill you can acquire that will make you a better winner, so play for fun – if you win it’s a bonus!

There are also non-cash prizes – for example Foxy Bingo currently have promotion where you can win a cruise! Believe me, to a lot of women that sounds like heaven!! and Jackpot Joy Bingo are running a competition to win tickets to the live XFactor show. But it has to be admitted if it was simply the prizes that lured in the punters then bingo would be far outstripped popularity wise, by other online casino games.

However it is not just the prizes that lure us in! It’s the fun and camaraderie! Many games online are played simply for the gambling aspect, whereas bingo does not focus on this – it is the social aspect that appeals to many – you might start off as a stranger to everyone else but you quickly make friends! Everyone is so helpful and everyone wants all the other players to do well, learn about the site, the games and have a good old natter! The prizes are just a bonus! Losing doesn’t break anyone’s heart, or bank balance (!), and playing bingo online is considered a hobby – not a gambling addiction!! While the big bingo sites do offer ever greater prizes, due to competition from other sites, it has to be recognised that as long as there are chatrooms, and other players to get along with, then there will always be people playing bingo online!

If you have never played bingo either at a ‘real’ bingo hall or online then there is a little to learn before you proceed – but don’t worry, there isn’t much and it’s not at all difficult! It’s FUN! Most bingo sites have a page dedicated to telling you the rules and intricacies of the game depending on what way they do things at that particular site.

Here are some basic and important things you need to know before playing online bingo:
You will have to set up an account, which means depositing some funds so that you can start playing. Most sites give you sign up incentives – Jackpot Joy Bingo are currently matching any deposit you make from £10 ~ £100, in other words doubling your money. Adding funds is easy and can be done with a debit or credit card. If you are a bit of an online game newbie, don’t worry about this – all the bingo sites listed by me have been checked for security, fairness and game quality.

If you’re not too confident there are always free bingo games for you to start out in and get into your stride! But remember the golden rule of bingo – you’re there to have fun!

Bingo was mainly played in European fair grounds – the booth owner would pull numbered tokens randomly from a box and players would mark their cards with beans, hence the game became known as Beano. The first player to cover a horizontal, vertical or diagonal line on their card with beans would shout ‘Beano!,’ and claim a prize. Sometime in the 1930s a salesmen named Edwin Lowe from America came across the game in a Germany city, and decided to bring the idea back to the U.S. with him. On arrival back in the U.S. Lowe showed the game to his friends, one of them got quite excited when she won and called out ‘Bingo!’ instead of ‘Beano!,’ and the name stuck!

Lowe released a version of the game with a 12 and 24 card set, costing just a dollar or two dollars for the 24 card set. The game was a smash hit and spread quickly around the States, mainly being used to raise money for charitable causes by priests in Pennsylvania, but there was a problem in that the cards were delivering too many winners rather than the desired one or two, as previously they hadn’t been played by groups of players. The priest employed the services of a university mathematician at Colombia University, Carl Leffler, who invented 6000 different bingo card numerical variations. Bearing in mind there were no computers to help complete this task, the poor mathematician was driven insane – but the result was that there was now just one winner per bingo game.

Bingo didn’t become widely acknowledged until 1960, when the Gaming Act permitted such games to be played in members-only establishments. In 1968 a Gaming Board was set up to regulate Bingo clubs and another act was passed which allowed clubs to play bingo with cash prizes via tabletop coin slots. Bingo proved so popular that Bingo Halls were set up in all major towns in the UK, many of which still exist or have been revived in recent years.

Many people tried to imitate Lowe’s bingo game, but as he did not own the game, he asked that his competitors pay him $1 a year in return for using the name Bingo. This has resulted in Bingo being the generic name of all the variations of the game that exist today, including online bingo.

Online bingo has become extremely popular and figures released in 2007 by Global betting and Gaming Consultants, in a single year online Bingo generated wins of over £70 million, and it is predicted that the expected return on Bingo wins will reach £164 million by the year 2013! Bingo broadly appeals to women, with 85% of all online players being women. If you’d like to try online bingo for yourself then Jackpot Joy Bingo is the best place to play, you can join for free, you get a matched cash bonus on your first real money deposit and even regular games where the tickets are free.