Archive for January, 2009

New Bingo Site Launched Every Day

We knew bingo was going to be huge in 2009, but I don’t think anybody thought that online bingo was going to be this mammoth. So far this January I have witnessed more than a handful of new UK bingo sites being launched. Not that it bothers me much, gives me more interesting places to [...]

Foxy Bingo Goes Space Crazy

Foxy Bingo have started 2009 with an awesome, out-of-this-world new bingo campaign. Their site has also had a makeover and now features a space theme to run alongside their £1 million bingo giveaway. I also noticed that Foxy had a new TV commercial running the other night, featuring Foxy making an entrance from a glitterball [...]

Happy Birthday Bingo or Should That Be Beano?

80 years ago, a travelling salesman named Edwin S. Lowe, settled down to play a game of ‘Beano’ at a local fair in New York. Beano, was a popular game at country fairs, the rules of the game were simple : a dealer (similar to a card dealer) would select numbered discs from a box [...]

Play Bingo in The Sun

The Sun Bingo has delivered a cracking free bingo offer with their ‘Free Holidays Competition‘ running all this week. To qualify for one the holidays, simply play ‘What Is This?’ Quickie Games between the hours of 9:50 am and 9:50 pm and if your the ninth person to guess what is being revealed you’ll win [...]

Mrs Obama’s Online Bingo

To help celebrate Barack Obama’s inauguration as America’s next President, Kezia Obama, Barack’s Obama’s Step-Mother has launched her own Bingo site. With a little help from Gala Bingo the game, which started yesterday will run until the 23rd January and can be played in the City Club between the hours of 8pm and 9pm.

Twitter Bingo

If you haven’t heard of Twitter, then here is a brief snapshot of what it is : Twitter is a micro-blogging or social network that allow people to post, for free, updates on what they are doing, watching, reading etc.. of of up to 140 characters in length. So far Twitter has been used by [...]

Ladbrokes Ad Banned

In what seems like a massive overplay, Ladbrokes have seen their latest ‘thrill seeker’ TV ads banned by the ASA after receiving a complaint from just 1 person. The ads which were used to depict thrill-seekers jumping from planes with crisp packets as parachutes and divers dressing as seals with raw sausages strapped to their [...]

You Won £5,000 Bingo Prize – Is That It?

There is an old saying, that “You cannot please everybody all the time” and this is very true for Mrs Payton, 30, who lives at Clare Crescent, Wolverhampton. She recently won £5,000 at her Mecca Bingo club and said she was “disappointed” at hearing how much she won. However, to be fair to Mrs Payton [...]