Wink Bingo has pulled out all the stops by offering a brand new Mini Cooper as a bingo jackpot prize. Not for them the likes of a £50 jackpot or hamper as on online bingo prize, no Wink Bingo want to give their players something to really enjoy in 2010 so have re-launched the very successful Mini Mania jackpot bingo game.  Clearly this massive prize is going to be very sought after and even with the bingo tickets at the higher end of the price spectrum the bingo room will be very busy.  Luckily for regular online bingo players at Wink Bingo they can have an opportunity to earn free bingo tickets too so this bingo game has the potential of not actually costing very much at all to take part in. Pre-purchase gives all online bingo player the chance to join in As well as the chance to win the Mini Cooper car there are prizes of £500 and £1,000 cash in the Mini Mania bingo game, these can be win for one and two line wins respectively in the 90 ball online bingo game. The Mini Mania game takes place on New Year’s Day at 9.00pm and Wink Bingo have made it easy for players to enjoy the bingo game without having the need to be in the bingo room at that  time.  Clearly Wink Bingo are thinking of making this game as accessible as possible for the online bingo players at the site and so they are providing tickets for the Mini Mania bingo game on a pre-purchase option. Points might make prizes in this online bingo game The bingo tickets are available to fully funding account holders at £5 each, and Wink are aware that the price might be a little too steep for some players so are giving points to players at the bingo site which will earn free bingo tickets to the Mini Mania game. Points can be earned in a various ways such as sending in funny stories to the team at Wink Bingo and by playing bingo and instant games at the popular online bingo site, and for each 500 points earned players will receive one free bingo ticket. www.winkbingo.com

How often do you get the chance to win a really spectacular bingo prize?  Well at 888 Ladies you most certainly could have the opportunity to do just that, as they are offering an amazing jackpot bingo prize of a brand new Fiat 500 convertible car to one lucky online bingo player on Christmas Eve.  Tickets for the Christmas special are now on sale as a pre-buy at 888 Ladies for £2 each, which we know is a little on the steep side but for the prize on offer really not that much.  Players have until Christmas Eve to purchase their bingo tickets to join in the bingo game which takes place at 8.30 pm on the 24th December at 888 Ladies. Prize a day in the big Christmas promotions at 888 Ladies This prize could offer any online bingo player the chance of a really memorable Christmas and of course a really exciting 2010.  Just imagine the prospect of motoring around in a brand new car at the beginning of the new decade all thanks to 888 Ladies! This bingo jackpot prize is great but if the tickets are too much for your online bingo budget, then don’t despair as 888 Ladies have thought of that too and as such are offering a bingo prize a day until 23rd December in the Santa’s Grotto daily pre-purchase bingo game. As the name suggests this is a game that takes place daily at 8.30pm, and will provide bingo players with the opportunity to win prizes such as shopping vouchers or a TV. Extra gift at Christmas for Gold accounts at 888 Ladies 888 Ladies are really trying to ensure that their online bingo fans have one of the happiest Christmases ever, and for all the loyal Gold account holders you will receive an extra special gift from 888 Ladies – 10% cash back on tickets purchased in the two promotions mentioned. www.888ladies.com

If you are a bingo player who dreads Christmas morning as you will be faced with a pile of unwanted gifts from well meaning relatives, and will need to feign excitement and gratitude, then be assured you are not alone.  Gala Bingo has just conducted a very interesting poll that revealed that this is fairly common, with female relatives being the worst at selecting the right gift for their families.  Top of the bad present hit parade according to Gala Bingo are Aunties who get it wrong in most instances. Gala Bingo has helpfully included a list of presents that most bingo players would like to receive to make it a little easier for Aunts to choose a gift that family members might appreciate.  So for all you aunts out there, according to Gala Bingo you should aim to buy mp3 players, cameras or laptops for relatives to guarantee a genuine smile on Christmas morning.  Certainly second hand clothes or nose hair trimmers will not be the stuff that Christmas dreams are made of. Brothers are next on the list of disastrous present buyers, they really don’t have a clue what their siblings like and most often purchase the first thing that falls into their hand when they walk around the supermarket – that will be where the kitchen utensils come from in the unpopular list of presents! Gala Bingo have provided some pretty impressive Christmas promotions for online bingo players to take part in on the run up to Christmas that should certainly help with the Christmas shopping for any player that is lucky enough to win.  Gala Bingo has jackpots up to £20k in the Xmas Cracker Link Game and up to £500 in the Festive Fun Cash Link Game. Bingo players should check out the online bingo site for all the details of the promotions to ensure that they don’t miss out on all the Gala Bingo festive fun. www.galabingo.co.uk

Mecca Bingo have some good news for online bingo players who live in Harrogate – they are more likely to win playing online bingo or bingo in one of the Mecca Bingo halls than in other parts of the UK.  Of course that is only if their recent survey results are correct, Mecca Bingo have used existing data gained from their online bingo playing faithful along with some questions that were asked of 1300 of the general public to come up with some pretty interesting bingo statistics. Along with Harrogate being a hotspot for Mecca Bingo winners those players who live in Falkirk and Berwick upon Tweed also have something to smile about as they too are more likely than some other UK locations to be winners at Mecca Bingo. Bingo players in Bath were not quite as lucky, unfortunately this was the least likely place to be a winner in the Mecca Bingo poll. Top of the rankings for bingo winners names is anyone called Debbie,  and Steve’s should check out Mecca Bingo too as they are also more likely to be bingo winners.  These two names were more likely to be winners with Debbie’s managing to lucky in 92% of those questioned and Steve’s gained a very acceptable 83%. Those bingo players who lived north of the border were not only lucky but they were also regarded to be the most generous natured, giving more to charity family and friends in the event of a Mecca Bingo win.  Surprisingly 1% of the bingo players questioned said that they would give all their winnings away if they won £100,000 – we say surprisingly as we can’t imagine even one person really wanting to give £100,000 away, even if they really loved their family and the local cats home! www.meccabingo.com

Bingo players would mostly be overjoyed if they won a big £50,000 bingo jackpot and would appreciate the long term benefits possible of using such a win wisely.  Most bingo players would opt for exchanging a car or having a special holiday or would enjoy being able to buy some of the things that they have always desired without worrying about cash. Most bingo players would not end up in a worse situation than before their big bingo win in little under a year, with the threat of eviction and unpaid bills and no food to feed their children.  Cheryl McCann is clearly not like most other bingo players then, as that is precisely what has happened to her, rather than taking full advantage of her new found wealth she has allowed it to dig her into an even deeper hole than she was in prior to her win and is now almost destitute. An article published on the Sun Bingo newspaper site states that the 33 year old bingo winner from Leeds is now in such a bad situation that she often doesn’t send her three children to school because she has no lunch for them.  The reason for this terrible set of events is apparently not down to her squandering her bingo winnings on frivolities but is because the benefits agency will not reinstate her benefits now that she has spent all her bingo winnings! Yes, you read that right, the lady concerned has spent all the bingo money that she won and now wants her benefits back so that she can continue in her life of expecting the tax payer to support her family. This is a tale of our times, where a fantastic event which most people would appreciate and use to their advantage has actually done nothing for the bingo winner concerned in fact if anything the bingo playing lady almost bemoans her win.  Bingo players up and down the country will be wringing their hands in despair thinking of all the great things they could do with such a big bingo win – and most people trapped on benefits would be grateful for such a big win and use their new found luck to change their life around. Poor Cheryl, we hope that she finds the happiness that she desires soon, after all if you can’t find it in a £50,000 bingo win where can you find it?

Its all change at Mecca Bingo Catford, and it the exciting changes begin today! For a start the popular Mecca Bingo hall will close its doors, then after a long and busy week of building works and refurbishments the doors will fly open once more on the 3rd December with the Mecca Bingo Catford emerging all bright shiny and new.  Players will be amazed at the amount of changes that the bingo hall will have everything form a special auditorium for traditional bingo games to a lively, social lounge where partying is on the menu and fun is the central theme. Mecca Bingo Catford will host bingo with a difference too, so if you fancy playing a bingo game that offers you the opportunity to sing-a-long then pay the Mecca Bingo Catford a visit.  As well as singing whilst you play bingo, there is also a great game to play after dark called Bin-glo and features dayglo daubers, bracelets, lights and bingo.  The newly refurbed Mecca Bingo hall will provide players with the opportunity to enjoy food  no matter where they are in the building – so if you fancy a munch whilst you play bingo then you will be in luck, and best of all the food will be delivered to you by a member of staff. Mecca Bingo will have changed practically everything about the Mecca Bingo hall in Catford by the time the doors open again next week for the re-opening party. One thing that won’t change though will be the warm welcome that bingo players receive when they go through the doors.  If you are a regular at the Catford bingo hall and you want to be able to play whilst the hall is closed then Mecca Bingo have laid on special travel arrangements to allow players to go to another Mecca Bingo hall nearby. www.meccabingo.com

Do you look forward to the weekend to get your fix of the X Factor? Well good news, Spa Bingo readers will be pleased to find out that you can get a little bit of X Factor excitement playing at 888 Ladies. Of course everyone is X Factor mad at the moment, so for 888 Ladies to offer a promotion featuring the popular reality TV show is a well thought out plan and one that is bound to generate a lot of bingo player interest. The X Factor promotion provides 888 Ladies bingo site players with the chance to win tickets to visit the studio to watch the live show. 888 Ladies bingo site account holders can win the tickets for the X Factor by playing the X Factor video slot game.  The competition is in the final stages now but there are still two weeks left to take part in this amazing X Factor slot game promotion and that is plenty of time to log in and start playing and possibly winning!  The prize of X Factor studio tickets also includes one nights hotel accommodation in London, so a real package of fun for the winners. To win this fab prize 888 Ladies Bingo account holders must play the X Factor slot and gain a place on the leaderboard of the most games played, the top 100 players will then be entered into a draw for the final prize winner.  With week 6 and week 7 still to play the tension is mounting as these prizes are gradually slipping through bingo players fingers, so don’t delay get playing the X Factor slot game as soon as possible.  The X Factor maybe heading for the final few acts but the excitement is still there, make sure you get your chance to see the acts live by playing at bingo site 888 Ladies. www.888ladies.com

Costa Bingo is the place to play bingo this month if you see yourself as an X Factor wannabee, as the gang at Cost Bingo are offering online bingo players at their site the chance to drive a Ferrari just like Mr Cowell might do. Ok, so bingo players at Costa Bingo are never going to know what it really feels like to be the X Factor’s Mr nasty, Simon Cowell (unless of course you want to wear your jeans right up under your armpits!), and for the guys Costa Bingo can’t promise that you will sit next to Cheryl Cole either, but they can certainly provide players with a weekend of fun filled driving. To be in with a chance of driving this fab bright red Ferrari it is just a case of playing in the X Factor tourney, trying to gain as many tourney points as possible, from playing the X Factor slots, for calling bingo on the X pattern or for the biggest win of the day.  Successful players who remain at the top of the Costa Bingo X Factor tourney leaderboard at the end of each of the four qualifying weeks will win one of four prizes of the Ferrari for the weekend plus £200 to spend like an X Factor judge. Week two of the wonderful X Factor tourney is in full flow so get to Costa Bingo for the chance to win the week two first prize or one of the smaller runners up cash prizes, which with a second prize of 200 quid is really not that small!  Costa Bingo players need to fund their account to take part in the X Factor tourney so make sure that you deposit before playing!  This amazing bingo promotion runs until 5th December so plenty of time to get your tourney points adding up.

A dodgy Gala Bingo employee has been sent to jail for 9 months by Newcastle Crown Court, the 29 year old guilty man who was employed by Gala Bingo as a caller and team leader was jailed for rigging two bingo games.  With the help of two accomplices Christian Grant set about defrauding Gala Bingo by tampering with the random number generator machine whilst he was calling bingo numbers in two games.  The first incident happened in September last year with the second occurring in March this year. The crime only came to light after a concerned bingo player complained to the Gala Bingo hall management about suspicious goings on in a bingo game she had been playing. Gala Bingo, to their credit took the matter very seriously and suspended the accused man and his girlfriend, Samantha Temple – a claim checker at the same Gala Bingo hall and also the winner of one of the suspected games. The second accomplice was an ex-girlfriend of Christian Grant who had won a £7,830 Gala Bingo prize in the previous year, a Miss Nandi Ndebele.  Grant and both of the women pleaded guilty to the charge of Conspiracy to defraud, Grant received the jail term and the two women received a more lenient sentence of community supervision order with Ndebele receiving a further order of 100 hours of unpaid work. Gala Bingo sacked both Temple and Grant as soon as they found that there was sufficient evidence for charges to be brought by Police.  The guilty pair have lived together with their child receiving benefits since being discharged by Gala Bingo. All three of the accused have stated that they stole the money from Gala Bingo to clear debts, Grant to his credit asserted that the idea was all his and he had  encouraged the other two defendants to assist him with the deception. www.galabingo.co.uk

Its all happening at Moon Bingo, a huge change to the look of Moon Bingo has occurred and it’s been an overnight transformation.  Moon Bingo is now all bright and breezy looking very attractive bedecked in teal and turquoise, the changes are carried over to the games too.  Moon Bingo now has a full range of free bingo games for online bingo players to take advantage of, and some are no deposit free bingo games, so no damage to the purse or wallet.  There are lots of exciting new promotions that will take the breath away of most online bingo players, plus the promise on the site of further exciting things to come. Players who have an account at Moon Bingo can use their usual log in details to access the full range of online bingo fun at the site.  However its worth noting that a deposit is required for some bingo rooms.  For the loyal bingo players who love Moon Bingo there are benefits aplenty for making your regular deposits, ‘access all areas ‘ is one benefit, which gives a free entry to the funded players only free bingo rooms and also to gain access to the special very cheap 1p a ticket bingo games. Of course the new and improved Moon Bingo has arrived at the right time to compete with all the new online bingos sites that have recently launched, we have told our readers of two recently Bulldog Bingo and Bingon.com. Players who have funds lodged in the old Moon Bingo site will need to either make a withdrawal or play through the sum held in their account as these funds will not be able to be transferred to the new Moon Bingo site.  Players who don’t like change wills till be able to play the old Moon bingo site, full details on how to do this will be found on the new Moon Bingo site. Players who love big jackpots will find some whoppers on the new Moon Bingo site, including the Super Millionaire game, where tickets are £1 each and the prize fund is billed as £10,000,000 and is available to funded players only.