Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012

Castle Bingo

Who are Castle bingo?

An online bingo website that although a relative newcomer to the information superhighway gaming fray, has a rich and diverse leisure-based past that put Castle at the forefront of the bingo hall populating over the last few decades. Instantly recognizable in a crowded marketplace by its bold blue and yellow corporate colours. And the fact that they flaunt the biggest jackpot in virtual bingo. Read it and weep.

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Castle Bingo

What Is Castle?

It’s an online bingo site named after a medieval defensive structure, yet above and beyond this immovable fact it’s the virtual home of Wales’s foremost bingo purveyors. A leisure company that’s been in bricks and mortar (no, not wattle and daub) existence in the Principality since the mid-19th Century, Castle’s chain (mail, sorry…the puns stop here) of high street bingo halls covered most of the major towns and cities in South Wales in its 1980s heyday, and still boasts the first ever purpose-built bingo hall in Britain, the Canton Castle as the jewel in its crown. They had the lucrative South Wales bingo market sewn up until their properties/businesses were bought out by other leisure companies as well as the advent of the smoking ban meant Castle had to join the internet revolution if they were to survive and prosper for another 150-odd years. So that concludes your history lesson for today folks.

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Who’s Behind Castle?

In a word, Castle. In another, Leisure. Bring the C to the L and the online bingo to the max and it’s all about Castle Leisure. And their bingo-playing word has made the jump from the street to the screen. Having mastered the art and physicality of traditional halls some centuries ago, they now do what they do best via your colour monitor/laptop/flat screen. Either way Castle Bingo is brought alive and to you courtesy of those kindly gaming platform operating folk over at St. Minver.

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Is Castle Any Good?*****

We’re lead to believe so, but as the over-used cliché states, the proof is in the pudding. Or in this case, in the Castle Bingo website. Not that we’re led there, as we venture to that destination at our own free will. All in the name of research on behalf of you lot. An easy-peasy registration process, a fool-proof site navigation layout, plus regular and informative lines of communication between ‘you’ and ‘them’ makes for a happy relationship.

And now for the best bit. Legend has it (OK, and some reliable statistics) that some £262,000 is paid out on average every 24 hours. That’s £182 per minute. Or £3 quid a second. That’s bloody useful whichever way you look at it and however good your ability to sub-divide in your head is. It’s common knowledge among the online bingo community that Castle proffer some of the largest jackpots in the world. And since when have we bulls****ed?!

What Free Bingo Promotions Do Castle Offer? ****

There’s 10 of the little buggers to get sucked in by. Totally free games that is. You can even pocket a laptop along with other fabulous prizes for committing zip all to the party. Promotion-wise, and there’s some bingo thing or another at every turn during the entire week. Monday and it’s all about Buy One, Get One free, while Tuesday focuses on gossip and slander with the aptly named Chatty Tuesday offer where there’s a tirade of prizes for incessant gassing. Albeit linked in with bingo game playing. Wednesday and Everbody’s A Winner, which means splitting the spoils with every other player who emerges victorious during the online bingo-related challenges, whilst Thursday is signposted by Penny Bingo. Which means small investment = big payout. Fantastic Fridays are just what they say on the tine, Skyrocket Saturday’s (the prize pot expands as the day gets longer) certainly lives up to its hyperbole and Sunday is Cash for Life. Nothing to do with kidnap, ransom and blackmailing, yet everything to do with one lucky player pocketing £1000 every month for the rest of their days. Nice work if you can get it.

What Current Deals Are On The Table? ****

How’s about a £1 bonus in exchange for registering with Castle Bingo’s website complete with a free pack of playing cards? Or a 100% match bonus on your initial deposit – and the creation of your online account – that starts the whole Castle Bingo ball(s) rolling? The premise is simple. Whatever amount you deposit to begin with, Castle match. Pound for pound. All the way up to £125 quid. Like the majority of other online bingo service providers out there, Castle Bingo also offer chat game bonuses too, which essentially rewards players for gabbing. In fact there’s many mind-boggling ways in which you can double, treble and quadruple your bingo money every time you log on to Castle Bingo once you have a nosey around the rooms and the specific games vying for your attentions.

And then there’s the loyalty points which accrue whenever you purchase your bingo cards unbeknownst to you. Although now we’ve gone and told you the secret’s out. Not that it was necessarily a secret beforehand. And naturally enough you can cash in your loyalty points as and when you please. Now this is the exciting bit. As you don’tt just need to swapsy them for more goes on the bingo games, as you can in fact exchange your loyalty points for some pretty top notch extra curricular prizery once you’ve bagged enough of them. For example who’s going to turn their nose up at some swanky VIP London shopping days, short breaks in Theatreland, trips on the Orient Express and luxury champagne hampers??? ‘Fools!’ that’s who, as the A-Team’s Mr T would bellow indignantly back in the televisual day.

How Many Rooms Can You Visit Onsite? **

The two bingo rooms, Bingo Cafe and Bingo Lounge. The former is open 24/7, lists tickets costing from as little as 10p and houses 2 killer jackpots, whilst the latter is only available from 12pm until midnight and tickets cost from 25 pence.

Aside from the bingo there’s a raft of online slots to keep you busy till the cows come home, of both the one and five line variety. Slots that is, not bovines. Not to mention scratch card games, Keno, Video Poker, Pub Darts, Plum Royale 20, Roulette and more interactive games than you could shake a stick at should you ever grow weary of matching your numbers to the ones called out in forever new and interesting ways with the bingo game assimilations. Just head for the Games Lobby and let the grin spread from ear to ear.

90/75/80 BALL BINGO?

Just the 90 ball bingo over the two main rooms.

WHAT’S THE CATCH? The absence of further bingo rooms might be considered an issue with the puritans, although easily countered by the fun atmosphere found everywhere you roam at Castle Bingo and the relaxed chat room community always willing to point new players in the right direction.

WILL THEY ACCEPT MY PLASTIC? Moneybookers, NETeller, Playsafecard, Ukash,Visa, Electron, Mastercard, Maestro, etc….you name them, you can swipe them here or hereabouts.

IS THE SITE SECURE? No details shared with third parties means personal security is assured, with no player info slipping under their arms and into the back of the net. It’s St. Minver operated as we know, so security and platform access rigorously applied as is the norm.

HOW CAN I CONTACT THEM SHOULD I WANT TO?24 hours customer support phone lines available should you come asunder. Otherwise it’s live chat and email servicing all the way baby!