Our deepest sympathies go to Gremlins and Mrsgrems on the tragic loss of their daughter, baby Leona, who sadly passed away in her grandmother’s arms on Monday, aged just 4 months.
Our words seem so indaequate, but the heartfelt thoughts and prayers of all of us here at BingoMania UK are with Jeff, Leanne and the family at this sad time.
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His Imperial Highness, Emperor Skippy the First of BingoMania, Jack of the Pot and Defender of the Slots, is pleased to announce that the nominees for the July’s Order of the BingoMania Empire are:
- WOOMYWOBBAPAT
- RuddyRedTrout
- SLIPPERLIMPET
- supergran24
- JANNY08
- lazydaizy
- StickyToffee
- Gremlins
and the Order of the BingoMania Empire for July goes to …
drum roll…
RuddyRedTrout who receives £50BBs. All the other nominees will receive £5BBs each.
Well done all of you.
If you want to be in with a chance of being August’s OBME winner, it’s easy:
Every month each of our GMs will be nominating players for inclusion in Skippy’s Monthly Honours List. Nominations will be made on the basis of ‘an outstanding contribution to chat’ for players who have demonstrated consistent friendliness, politeness, patience and community spirit. The nominations will then go before His Imperial Highness’s loyal advisors, who will consider all the nominees before finishing the champagne and truffles choosing one player to receive the prestigious OBME – the Order of the BingoMania Empire.
Our monthly OBME winner will be featured on the blog and the newsletter, and will be presented with £50 of BBs from the Ancient and Honourable Bearer of the Imperial Sack. They will also be entitled to use the letters OBME after their name in chat and on the blog.
All players whose accounts are in good standing and who have made a deposit within the past 30 days are eligible for an OBME, with the exception of employees of Helix Gaming International, and their relatives, who are not eligible.
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Holy Quesadillas Batman!
They say that variety is the spice of life, so on 21st July we’re going to put Fair & Square into the store cupboard for a while and give you a hot new room to play with – the Twisted Taco.
With 2-part 90-ball games at 50 pence per card, the Twisted Taco is not going to be to everyone’s taste, but we hope that you will like the higher prizes this will bring.
There’ll also be some fixed-price fixed-pot games and we’re going to set the progressive jackpot at a level that even Speedy Gonzales would struggle to keep up with – just 48 calls. And, we’ll be transferring the progressive from Fair & Square into the Twisted Taco, giving you a starting jackpot of over £1460!
The Twisted Taco will be served up, fresh, hot and spicy, between 6pm and 10pm on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays in place of Fair and Square. Our champion fajita-filling games masters – GM José and GM Chiquita – have some great chat games lined up including Fajita Flip, Twice as Spicy, Kickin Mules and Tacos and Tortillas.
If you want to know why it’s called the Twisted Taco, you’ll need to grab your sombreros and mosey on down on 21st July.
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From the bingo site that brought you easier-to-win jackpots, Second Chance and chocolate chip coated newsletters (at least we would if Poppy stopped eating the choccy!) comes the new standard in accolades.
You can forget the MBEs, OBEs, KCBEs and BBCs (unless you’re watching Top Gear) ‘cause you’ll be hard pushed to get one of those unless you’re really lucky.
But we admire Her Majesty’s generosity in recognising ordinary people who make outstanding contributions to various causes. So BingoMania UK – in association with His Imperial Highness, Emperor Skippy the First of BingoMania, Jack of the Pot and Defender of the Slots – is proud to announce Skippy’s Monthly Honours list.
Every month each of our GMs will be nominating players for inclusion in Skippy’s Monthly Honours List. Nominations will be made on the basis of ‘an outstanding contribution to chat’ for players who have demonstrated consistent friendliness, politeness, patience and community spirit. The nominations will then go before His Imperial Highness’s loyal advisors, who will consider all the nominees before finishing the champagne and truffles choosing one player to receive the prestigious OBME – the Order of the BingoMania Empire.
Our monthly OBME winner will be featured on the blog and the newsletter, and will be presented with £50 of BBs from the Ancient and Honourable Bearer of the Imperial Sack. They will also be entitled to use the letters OBME after their name in chat and on the blog.
All players whose accounts are in good standing and who have made a deposit within the past 30 days are eligible for an OBME, with the exception of employees of Helix Gaming International, and their relatives, who are not eligible.
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We know that a number of you are experiencing problems with chat freezing, tickets not showing and getting booted and we’ve been looking into it. Our techs and the techs at Parlay (who provide the software) have given the site the thumbs up, from a technical point of view.
So, we’ve been chatting with our counterparts on other sites and they tell us that some of their players are experiencing difficulties too. The collected wisdom of our best technical staff, the techs at Parlay and reports from other sites resulted in the following info which I hope will help a lot of you out.
- AOL has been experiencing a fair amount of problems, as have other ADSL providers. If you have ADSL broadband (you use filters on your line for your phones and don’t have a cable connection) then please get in touch with your ISP. We know that AOL, for example, are giving free time to people having these problems.
- Flash Player has recently been updated. If you don’t have the latest version, try downloading it from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ and see if that improves things for you. A number of players have said that that has helped them.
- As always, please remember to frequently clear out your temporary internet files and clear your cookies. Some of the signs that you may need to do this include: certain numbers not being called by the caller even though they are out, the music not being heard and problems with the game playing slowly.
Unfortunately, we can’t find an answer for every single problem that is experienced by players, but hopefully these suggestions will help most of you.
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Happy Father’s Day to all the gentlemen out there.
After you’ve enjoyed your breakfast in bed and put the new cordless power tools on charge, what better way to spend the day than with your friends here on BingoMania?
To celebrate dad’s special day, we will be awarding Amazon vouchers to the top 3 bingo winners between 12:01am and 11:59pm on 15th June.
Prizes are as follows:
1st Prize - £150 Amazon vouchers
2nd Prize - £100 Amazon vouchers
3rd Prize - £50 Amazon vouchers
To be eligible to win the prizes players must have made a deposit within the past 30 days. Family members of employees of Helix International are not eligible to win prizes.
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Earlier today we sent out a press release telling the world “well, the online bingo world” about Janny’s £14,316.47 Jackpot win from last week. This is a copy of the release but modified for our blog.
Press Release starts here:
June 04, 2008 - An online bingo player with BingoMania.co.uk (http://www.bingomania.co.uk ) is celebrating after scooping the site’s highest ever individual prize giveaway. Janny08, from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, walked away with a lip-smacking £14,316.47 GBP … then generously decided to share her prize with a bingo pal. Her jackpot is nearly £100 more than the site’s previous highest.
BingoMania.co.uk is a relatively small site, yet has gained a reputation for big payouts. Another UK player, Mitchmente, had previously won £14,245.41. It’s this prize structure, coupled with huge deposit bonuses and fair odds, which last year helped BingoMania.co.uk gain number two* spot among UK bingo sites.
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Reports have been coming in to the authorities in the south of England about a very loud scream that was heard right throughout the Home Counties at ten to five in the evening on Tuesday 27th May. Police have now called off their search when we told them there was no need for alarm. It was just JANNY08 winning the Pound jackpot. Big creamy congratulations to Janny for scooping up the super-tasty Pound jackpot. Her win of £14,316.47 is the biggest ever jackpot on BingoMania UK, beating the previous Pound jackpot winner, Mitchmente, by £71.06 and pushing her straight to the top of the Hall of Fame.
Janny said, “I didn’t notice at first cos I was busy talking to Womble. When I realised, I screamed so loud I scared poor Bella (her dog) so much she ran off”.
In the true community spirit of BingoMania, Janny is sharing her win with her good friend Grumpy old bat. She said, “We made an agreement to split any jackpot wins in Madhouse and Pound and that’s what I’m going to do”. We think that deserves an extra big scoop of ice cream with strawberry sauce, whipped cream and a cherry on the top.
For those who like the technical details, Janny won her jackpot on call 35 on the Garden Path pattern. The game prize was £49.50 and the progressive a chunky £14,316.47.
Very well done Janny, and Batty of course. All of us here at BingoMania UK hope you both enjoy it.
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It is with a heavy heart that we have to announce the loss of one of our favourite Maniacs – DAME CRACKER.
Cracker, real name Carol, joined BingoMania in February 2007 and quickly became loved by all the roomies and GMs. She joined in with the community and had a great sense of fun. She was always quick with a kind word when someone needed lifted, even when she recently found out that she had cancer and that it was untreatable. In her inimitable style, instead of retreating into herself she continued to join in the fun and spirit of BingoMania.
Sadly, Carol lost the fight against cancer in the early hours of Thursday, 8th May.
The heartfelt thoughts and prayers of all at BingoMania are with the family at this difficult time.
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Skippy had a little win on the lottery on Wednesday night and he thought it would be nice to share his good fortune with all the Maniacs. Thanks Skippy.
He was going to buy everyone an ice-lolly but we pointed out that by the time you got them, they would have melted. So Stuart and TT got their thinking caps on and decided a nice cool tourney was just what was needed in the summer heat.
It’s been a little while since we had a tourney, so we thought we’d give you the chance to win some great cash prizes to spend on a new air cooler, walk-in fridge, several gallons of ice cream or whatever else takes your fancy.
For a chance to win, just buy into the special dollar pattern games in Madhouse and The Pound from 10th to 31st May. Each one of the special bingo games you win in Madhouse will earn you 1 tourney point, and each one you win in The Pound will earn you 2 tourney points. At the end of the tourney the cash prizes will be awarded to the 3 players with the most points.
1st place – £750 cash
2nd place– £500 cash
3rd place – £250 cash
To make sure everyone has a fair chance, we’re setting a 4 card max on these games, and the cards will be at the usual price for the room. We’ll also put up a leader board as soon as we can so you can keep track of how you’re doing.
The tourney starts at 09:00 hours (BST) on the 10th May and ends at 23:59 hours (BST) on the 31st May. We’ll be announcing the winners in chat and on the blog on Monday 2nd June, and in the newsletter which goes out on Friday 6th June.
Good luck everyone
As with all our promotions:
To be eligible to win the prizes, players must be active members whose accounts are in good standing and who have made a deposit in the past 30 days. In the event of a tie, the cash prizes will be split equally amongst all winners with the same number of points. Employees of Helix Gaming and their immediate family are not eligible to win prizes. No alternative prizes will be offered.
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