The draw for the Nectar one million point will be held on 6th January 2009 at Gala Bingo. An independent Judge will overlook the procedure and randomly the winner will be drawn. The one million points will be credited to their Nectar card!!!! Nectar and Gala Bingo have joined hands and the bingo players can register online at bingo site with their Nectar card and they will get 2 Nectar reward points for every £1 bingo tickets.

You can use your Nectar points at Argos or at online stores for making purchases at cooking, Do It Yourself  kits, home appliances, fitness product, child trust fund,home furnishing etc.the list is on and on.

So what are you waiting for? Get registered at Gala Bingo with your Nectar card and be a Nectar Millionaire. May be its You…The millionaire having million point to spend in the coming year making it the Luckiest New Year for you. Happy Bingoing!

The foray of Netplay TV in Sweden is supposed to be a breakthrough in the Bingo market as Sweden has the largest percentage of population engaged in gaming and gambling. It is found that 85% of Swedes enjoy gambling including Bingo and it has  more than 100 licensed bingo halls and over 575 non profit bingo licensees operates in Sweden. The percentage of gamblers is even more than that in Australia, a gambling freak country!!!!! So its not surprising that bingos.com has decided to enter this very lucrative market of Sweden and it’s sure to make huge profit here.

Bingos.com is available in many European languages for the ease of the bingo lovers. It is available in English, Polish, Spanish, Italian and of course in Swedish for the Swedes. The new Swedish version of Bingos.com is doing very well in this short time and has paved the way for NetplayTV  to expand it in Germany with German version. The earning of NetplayTV has increased 286% over this quarter last year. The latest turnover of NetplayTV is over $2 million. Its major earning is from the Online bingo.

Being common as muck, I don’t know how the posh people do things, so maybe it’s just my lack of breeding saying this; I really don’t think much of the colour scheme.  I mean, really – burgundy and lime green?  That’s just not comme il faut, is it?  It’s not this season, it’s not St Tropez.  But as I say, I’m just an oik, so chances are I’m wrong.  Well, anyway – if you sign up they’ll give you ten bingo cards free of charge, although it might be an idea to tip the doorman.  People talk, you know.  Once you’ve used those free cards, any deposit you make up to £100 will be matched by Posh Bingo.  We’ll call it a trust fund, yah?

Regulars seem to really enjoy playing at Posh Bingo, in fact they actually seem like a fairly open bunch.  Clearly, someone needs to tell them a thing or two about being a snob.  Standards are falling everywhere these days.  I don’t know, you just can’t get the staff…

The promotion ran on the date of the launch, 1st November and was called “Around the World in Eighty Days”. Yes, you guessed it, named after the Jules Verne classic adventure novel about Phineas Fogg and his faithful manservant Parspatou, who take on a bet that they can travel around the world in eighty days. They ravel by land, sea, and air in order to arrive back in London, having traveled to all the major continents. One of the means of travel they used was the hot air balloon, and this was the prize Ladbrokes bingo was giving away. A ride for two in a hot air balloon!

To make the promotion even more special they also gave away eighty prizes of ₤80 in cash to players in the eighty-ball game. This now means that Ladbrokes bingo offers ninety, eighty and seventy five ball bingo, as well as joker jackpot bingo which is bingo with a bit of a twist. So there are a huge variety of games to choose from. Ladbrokes is a well trusted brand name in the UK, so you can be sure you are playing online bingo in a safe and secure environment.

Jim Ryan, the Chief Executive Officer of Party Gaming told the Gaming Intelligence Group that they are completely delighted to have secured these games for Party Bingo. WagerWorks are a trusted brand, and they offer market-leading games. These games in particular are market leaders and they make a welcome addition to their online bingo product suite. The four new games have already got an established online bingo player following. They have proved to be extremely popular around the world, and will be a welcome addition.

WagerWorks is a high profile online slots and gaming software provider. They offer services to some of the biggest names in online bingo, are reputable and have a wide variety of online products on offer.

One thing is for certain, Party Bingo is lucky to get these names on-board and it will have the knock on effect of making the site more popular as well as more lucrative. As a relatively well established online bingo site, Party Bingo is popular with UK online bingo fans, and these additions will have the affect of making it even more popular.

This is now being questioned by Historian Dr. Carolyn Down. Her research apparently exposes a wealth of information regarding the birth of the name “Bingo”. It also goes into how the game was played in the trenches during World War 1 and how it grew as both a political and social fundraising game through the 20th century. She also questions our belief that the game was first named bingo in the USA.

Her research suggests that the name bingo was already in use in the UK prior to the USA incident in 1929.   The newly published article “A History of Bingo in The UK” uncovers a few surprises along the way. Not least of which is the claim to fame of the name, she believes that the name was being used in the UK concurrently with Edwin Lowe’s discovery. Apparently the matter does need further evidence, but perhaps, just perhaps we have been mislead into believing that the current history we have on the game is misplaced and should be revised.

Wagering on the side is also a great favorite for online bingo players, so if you want to play slots or scratch cards, you can do this without disturbing your game of bingo. The “Balls to Bingo” feature is also another very natty little item, this is displayed on the top of the screen and allows players to know how many balls to bingo you need.

Blackpool Club Bingo makes use of the Playtech software platform and this means that you bingo game opens up into a new window. I personally enjoy this feature, while others find it frustrating. But just getting to know the site and finding out what options you have means you can set these options to your own requirements.

There is a great chat team who are super friendly, and chat games mean that you are able to top up your bingo account at no extra expense, by converting your points into bingo bucks.

Remember that the Saturday Supernova plays every Saturday for the time being, so get there and be in for chance to win. The first prize time is 2pm with 20 winners taking ₤5 each, then 4 pm for 10 x ₤20 prizes, 6pm and 5 prizes of ₤50, this increases to 3 x ₤150 cash prizes at 8pm, then the big one at 10 pm for one winner of ₤1 000.Players have to deposit and play through ₤10 to qualify for the Saturday Supernova, so bear this in mind to avoid disappointment.

Don’t forget to join Miss. Money bags, she is on the prowl in her usual time slot, giving away money to anyone she calls on in her weekly chat party. Bingo Nana puts in a regular appearance too on a Thursday and she is one of the characters that makes Jackpotjoy bingo the place to play. You can’t miss you weekly session with Bingo Nana because she brings you all the news of promotions, winners and any other chit chat that keeps you up to date with what is happening on this online bingo site.

At her last day of work, during a special evening designed to be her farewell, Ann called eyes down for the first time. She said that she could never retire happy unless she finally got a chance to call the numbers. This ended her career in the bingo industry on a very high note, particularly as she called them for a hall that was full of regular bingo players.

I love this story it is so heart warming, just think about working in the same bingo hall for forty years? That is more than half a life-time. It must have been a really exciting moment for her, calling the numbers for a house full of regular bingoers on her last night on the job. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall that evening. Bingo never ceases to amaze me, there are so many feel good stories attached to this game, I doubt there is any other form of entertainment industry that can even match the amount of great stories that come out of a simple game like bingo.

Although Gala Bingo have been involved in raising funds for charities for a very long time, their efforts in the past have been diversified. This time all the staff at Gala bingo were asked to identify one charitable concern and the outcome of the vote from staff members had Sue Ryder Care as the winner. Su Ryder Care is a concern that takes care of  seriously ill people who suffer from many different illnesses, they also provide support to the families of the sick people.

In the latest fund raising drive Gala Bingo had 136 women taking part in a night walk, they, together with Sainbury’s, the supermarket chain, helped to supply all walk participants with refreshments once they had finished their walk. One of the organizers of the night walk, Pierson Mckenzie described Gala Bingo and Sainbury’s as being great in their support of Sue Ryder Care fund raising events. He said that the event itself was terrific, they had walkers of all ages from thirteen year old girls to an eighty nine year old woman in a wheelchair.