All of us here at BingoMania UK would like to take the opportunity to wish stoneybrokeOBME all the very best for her wedding, this coming Sunday.
“May the first day of your new lives together be the very best day of your life, and may each new morning bring you an even better one.”
Have a truly wonderful day Stoney.
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“Oh the times they are a’changin’”
A few people have told us that they miss out on Second Chance room because it opens so early. So to give you all a chance to get in, eat your tea and watch Emmerdale, we’re moving Second Chance to 8pm til 10pm, starting next Tuesday 23rd September.
Just to remind you, the qualifying week for Second Chance runs from 00:00 hours on a Monday to 23:59 hours on a Sunday. If, during that week, you deposit and wager £10 but win less than £30, you qualify for the Second Chance room the following Tuesday and should get an invitation in your email by Monday teatime.
If you win more than £30 during the week, in any room or on any game on the site, including slots, then you don’t qualify for Second Chance.
Be lucky all.
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Chelsystar struck lucky on Tuesday, 9th September, when she scooped up the highest ever slots jackpot win on BingoMania.co.uk.
Chelsystar, whose real name is Kelly, won a fantastic £17, 894.78 on the ‘Bring Home The Bacon’ slots. Her win puts her firmly at the top of the BingoMania UK Hall of Fame, closely followed by Janny08 and Mitchmente - the site’s two biggest bingo jackpot winners.
Speaking of her win, Kelly, who is aged 26 and from Walthamcross, said
“Thank you very much for my win. I was so shocked - never in the world did I expect that. I can’t explain how good it felt. The wee little piggies are the best. I have a little girl and one on the way and I will spend some of the money towards a deposit for a house and pay off some bills. Thank you again.”
BingoMania’s CEO and founder, Stuart Gordon, said
“Once again we’ve shown that for a relatively small site, our members can win big prizes with BingoMania UK - and not just on bingo. Our variety of games offers everyone the chance to win big, whatever their preference. We’re all very pleased for Kelly and I’m sure she will enjoy her winnings.”
I’m sure you will join us in giving our warmest congratulations to Kelly, aka Chelsystar.
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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
- stoneybroke
- titch2008
- ICKLE MOUTH
- lanny55
and the Order of the BingoMania Empire for August goes to …
drum roll…
stoneybroke 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 September’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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We often get tickets or players in chat, asking why some people seem to win more often than others.
First of all, let me say that the mathematics of bingo probability is unbelievably complicated, so I’m going to keep this simple. It won’t be exact but it should be close enough for you to get the general idea.
Let’s take a look at the chances of winning:
In a game with 5 players, each holding 2 cards, there are 10 cards in play. Each player has a 20% chance of winning because he or she holds 20% of the cards that are in play. Next game, every player buys 6 cards each, so there are 30 cards in play. Each still has a 20% chance of winning (because 6 is 20% of 30).
Simple enough so far.
Now, if there are 5 players and one player has 6 cards, but the others only have 1 card each, there are only 10 cards in play. The player with 6 cards has a 60% chance of winning (6 is 60% of 10). The other players each have only a 10% chance of winning. If all 5 players buy the same number of cards for the next 10 games, statistically the player with 6 cards will win more often.
But that kind of buying pattern doesn’t happen very often, so let’s look at another, slightly more realistic, example:
Chocs, Midgey, Poppy, Snuggles and Womble decide to play 20 games of bingo.
Chocs and Midgey each buy 1 card per game, Poppy buys 5 and gets one free per game, and Snuggles and Womble each buy 10 and get two free per game. There are therefore 32 cards in play.
Chocs and Midgey have a 3.13% chance of winning each game.
Poppy has an 18.75% chance of winning each game.
Snuggles and Womble each have a 37.5% chance of winning each game.
Statistically speaking, over 20 games, Chocs and Midgey may not win at all. Poppy, Snuggles and Womble should all win. We would expect to see Snuggles and Womble winning the most games.
Because bingo isn’t as neat and tidy as that, what we actually see usually follows the pattern but it can vary slightly.
As I said earlier, the mathematics of bingo probability is unbelievably complicated and it depends on a whole stack of factors. But basically, although you can win with one card, you increase your chances of winning if you buy more than one.
Be lucky!
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This bank holiday weekend (22 - 25 August) why not avoid all the usual traffic jams and miserable weather, and enjoy a great weekend of treats here at BingoMania UK?
For starters, we will be giving double BBs on all chat games as follows:
• 6pm to 10pm on Friday in Twisted Taco
• 9am to 1am on Saturday in Madhouse
• 4pm to 12am on Sunday in The Pound
• 9am to 1am on Monday in Little Britain
For the main course, all chat games on Monday, in all of our rooms, will be numbers-based games only – no nabors games.
For dessert, on Monday, we’re offering you the chance to win some Cash! Our very own Skippy will be making some surprise visits to our chat rooms and playing ‘Cash Back’.
When Skippy announces ‘Cash Back’ in chat, the two players that win the next chat game will win back (in cash) every penny they’ve spent in that room on the previous three games that played.
Yes, cash, not BBs!
Remember – you have to be in it to win it.
Be lucky!
Our usual terms and conditions apply, namely:
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. Employees of Helix Gaming and their immediate family are not eligible to enter. Once a player has won a prize they are not eligible for another. No alternative prizes will be offered.
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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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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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Shhhh… don’t tell Stuart, but we’re making the progressive jackpot in Little Britain easier to win, starting from May 1st. Every day, twice a day at 9am and 5pm, we’ll be increasing the number of calls within which you can win the progressive by one number until the jackpot is won. But the lunacy doesn’t end there – oh no.
After that, we’ll be sticking two ponies (that’s fifty pounds if you’re from north of the Watford Gap) into the progressive jackpot to start it off and as usual we’ll throw our spare change in every game. The number of calls you get to win it will stay at a win-tastic level, so that more of you get the chance to walk away with the wonga. In fact – we want to see it go two or even three times a day.
Yup – you read it right. We want to see you win it two or three times a day. We want to shake your hand, dance on the tables, break open the bubbly and help you celebrate. But we need our beauty sleep (some of us more than others, mentioning no names) and we go to bed at 1am.
So at 1am every morning, we’re going to take the jackpot and tuck it under Stuart’s mattress so that he doesn’t notice it’s missing. At 9am, we’ll shake off the fluff and bits of corn flakes and put it back, crisp and shiny and ready for a new winner.
We think you’ll enjoy being able to win it more often – after all – who doesn’t want a jackpot win?
You’re looking for the catch, aren’t you? Well if you find it let us know - because we don’t have a magnifying glass strong enough.
Be lucky
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