Over the past week, our blog posts have described the changes coming to BingoMania this Tuesday (10 February). Yesterday, we provided a sneak peak at some of the new games we’ve cooked up for you. Today we reveal our re-imagined BingoMania rooms.
When you login on Tuesday, you’ll be greeted with four shiny new bingo rooms:
Lucky Streak: 75-ball 10p bingo, open 24 hours & hosted 6am-1am
Madhouse: 75-ball 25p bingo, open & hosted midday to midnight
Money Tree: 90-ball 20p bingo, open 24 hours & hosted 6am-1am
Dream Catcher: 90-ball 10p bingo, open & hosted midday to midnight
These bingo rooms and game schedules aren’t just new to you — they are being introduced on Tuesday to all players on the common platform for the first time. This means that everyone will discover new fun together (and you won’t be the only one a bit dazzled by change).
With the move to a common platform, you’ll be playing alongside your fellow BingoManiacs as well as new friends who have entered through other sites on the network. Players come through different doors, but all arrive at a fun and friendly bingo community we’ll all call home. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. You’ll play for larger prizes, enjoy a wider circle of friends, experience a greater variety of games and promotions, and most importantly have more fun!
While some of the room names may be new and the structure a bit different, inside you’ll find what you’ve come to love at BingoMania: exciting bingo and chat games, a caring community and friendly chat hosts (old and new). You’ll see many familiar faces in the expanded chat team as most of your favorite GMs make the move to the common platform. TartanTerror will continue to head the team. Womble, Poppy, Tigerlily and Sparkle will also continue with us and we’ll all work hard to make the transition as seamless as possible. Unfortunately, not all of the BingoMania GMs were able to be accomodated in the schedule. We’ll greatly miss the GMs who won’t be returning and wish them all the very best for the future.
On the jackpot front, come Tuesday you’ll see some massive progressive jackpot amounts available to be won on almost every bingo game played! The amounts from our existing jackpots will be combined with other jackpots on the network to form two new mega pots. As long as there are no jackpot wins before Tuesday, we’re looking at a new 75-ball “Big Ticket” jackpot with a prize of over £7,500 and a new 90-ball “Sky High” jackpot with a prize of over £4,000!
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Over the past few months, we have been working very hard behind the scenes to bring you some exciting new features here at BingoMania UK.
As a result, we are pleased to announce that on Tuesday, February 10th, BingoMania UK will be integrating with The Gaming Network. This move to a network environment will bring you shed-loads of great new benefits, such as:
• bigger bingo prizes
• bigger jackpots
• more promotions
• more game variety
• and more new friends than you can shake a stick at.
In fact, there is so much exciting stuff to tell you that we just don’t have room here. So every day this week we will be posting a new blog up at http://maniastu.bingomania.co.uk with loads of information and goodies for your delight.
Make sure you visit the blog every day for further details and full information about the ways this will benefit you.
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It seems that everyone is feeling the pinch of the current economic climate, so we decided that we would try and make things a little easier for you here at BingoMania UK.
Starting from Thursday 22nd January, we will be doing away with the 150% bonus that has been active on Wednesdays and Saturdays and replacing it with a crunch-busting 50% EXTRA BONUS rebate on ALL deposits – any time, any day.
In addition to your usual deposit bonus (which is dependent on your loyalty level), you can claim back 50% of your last deposit as bonus. This means that, depending on your loyalty level, you can get bonuses of between 100% and 150% on each and every deposit you make, regardless of what day it is!
In order to qualify for the 50% credit rebate, you must have £2.00 or less in your account and not have requested a withdrawal since your last deposit. And getting your 50% rebate is easy - just submit a helpdesk ticket asking for a credit rebate and, provided you meet the criteria above, our staff will credit your account with a bonus equivalent to 50% of your last deposit. Simple.
No more waiting until Wednesday or Saturday to get an extra bonus. Now you can earn extra bonus on ALL deposits of any size, any day of the week. And remember – you still get your usual deposit bonus which is based on your loyalty level.
Beat that one, Mr Brown!
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The Twisted Taco will be closing its doors for the final time on Friday 31st October and going on a little vacation. But it’s not going quietly.
Oh no! Its going out with a bang so loud they’ll hear it in Norwich!
On Friday 31st October, for one night only, we are definitely going to give the jackpot to a lucky winner (or winners).
Every few games, the number of calls needed to win the jackpot will increase by one number until it is won. Yep – you read it right. We going to make it soooooo easy to win that everyone is in with a good chance.
So dig deep down the back of the sofa and pull out all the sweetie wrappers, loose change and the leftover pizza (which should really go in the bin) and make sure you don’t miss out on the sale of the century (Nicholas Parsons not included).
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 31st October 2008 from 6pm til 10pm.
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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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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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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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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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