Archive for January, 2008

80 Ball Bingo Comes to the UK

Friday, January 25th, 2008

UK online bingo sites are in the process of introducing the 80 ball bingo form of the game. One of the first sites to provide this new form of the game is Harrys Bingo. You may be asking yourself what is so special about 80 ball bingo? Apparently this is because the game is much faster.

The 80 ball bingo ticket consists of a sixteen square grid, four across and four down, so it has its own very unique ticket design. 80 ball bingo differs in that the games calls gives five more numbers than the 70 ball bingo version and ten less than the ninety ball version. This allows for a further five numbers to be added to the ticket, which means more exciting play.

If you have never played eighty ball bingo, perhaps you should go and take a look at Harrys Bingo and give it a whirl. Personally I haven’t had the time to look at it yet, but you can rest assured that as soon as I can, I certainly will. It is amazing how adaptable the game of bingo is, although the basic tenets of the game remain the same the game of bingo always seems to recreate itself, making for more excitement, without complicated rules or paraphernalia.

National Bingo Gibe UK Players What They Want Most!

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The National bingo has spent some time asking UK bingo players what it is they want and now they have decided to give them just that. From Sunday the 20th January 2008 the National Bingo welcomes back regional prizes and gives more opportunities to win in more bingo clubs for more winners.

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National Bingo Prize for Twenty-seven Year Old

Friday, January 11th, 2008

I have read about how the demographic for UK bingo players is changing, it has been said that more and more young people are going to the bingo and I think that this is beginning to show in the numbers of young people that are winning big prize money.

The trend for younger people to play online bingo is also it seems, applying to the land-based form of the game.

The latest winner in a line up of young women who have been going home from the bingo with small fortunes in their pockets, is a twenty-seven year old woman from Leeds. The lucky young lady was playing for the first time in two years at the Mecca Bingo Club in New York Street, Leeds. When to her surprise she called full house in 44 numbers and won the very worthwhile National bingo prize of £45,000.

She and her two friends liked to play bingo, and had enjoyed it before so on the spur of the moment decided to take a jaunt to the Mecca, where, when she won, she didn’t believe what the club was telling her. She says that she went quite red in the face on hearing the news! Her lucky friends will get to share her prize and she will definitely be spending some of it on a holiday.

Bingo in the UK Still Has Many Years of Life to Enjoy

Friday, January 4th, 2008

The owner of the Empire Bingo in Wisebach, Mr. Norman Jacobs, who is also the operator of the bingo club, is certain that bingo will still be around in the UK for many years to come. He does not concur with the nay-sayers who are predicting doom, gloom and collapse for the land based UK bingo industry.

Even though he recently sold the Hippodrome to the Petro u Brothers, he says that sale was not because of any drop in revenue or worries for the future of the land based UK bingo industry, it was purely a wise business decision as the Petrou brothers approached him and made him an offer on the Hippodrome bingo business that he could not refuse.

Originally Mr. Jacobs had planned to operate both the Empire and the Hippodrome, and had no intention of getting out of the bingo business. But the offer came along at a time when it made good business sense, he will still be operating the Empire as an independent bingo club and does not anticipate that the smoking ban, or anything else for that matter is going to affect his business for 2008. The worst of that is over and he has his loyal staff and members to thank for this.