Playing Bingo In Great Britain

Bingo can be played just about anywhere, including church halls, hotels, rugby clubs or any other venue with sufficient tables and chairs. If you prefer, you can play in bingo clubs, of which there are 699 licensed and operating throughout Great Britain.

The best place to find a Bingo club is to look under the Bingo listings section in the yellow pages. If that doesn’t work, try the Bingo search engines on the Internet, which list selected Bingo clubs by region. The two largest Bingo hall operators in the UK are Gala Bingo, with over six million members and Mecca Bingo, which has over 130 clubs to choose from. For a comprehensive listing, you could try bingo.co.uk.

In Northern Ireland, one of the largest Bingo club groups is the Planet Bingo Group, with seven clubs in: Belfast, Carrickfergus, Newtownards, Portadown and Antrim. There are three clubs alone in the city of Belfast.

In Scotland, Bingo enthusiasts can play at Bingo Scotland, or at clubs run by Mecca Bingo, such Glasgow Forge Bingo hall, which has been hailed as the luckiest in Britain after having produced two million pound jackpot winners in just three weeks.

In Wales, Castle Bingo in Cardiff, the first purpose-built Bingo hall in the UK immediately springs to mind as a good place to start before venturing further afield. In Wales, more people visit Bingo clubs every week than go to church or attend a premier football match! However, the country’s Bingo clubs have been hard hit by new laws such as the anti-smoking law promulgated recently (60% of Bingo club players smoke), which has had a serious affect on profits.

Perhaps it is for this reason that online playing Bingo in Great Britain is also becoming increasingly popular – it’s smoke-free and less noisy, and can be played from the comfort of your home (where, if you’re a smoker, you can indulge to your heart’s content). You can even chat throughout the game, in contrast to traditional Bingo, where silence needs to be observed during play. There are many different, reputable, safe companies with online bingo sites including William Hill.

You also won’t want to miss the national Bingo game, when over 500 of the country’s Bingo clubs play together, every night of the year, except Christmas day, to play. Up to 200 000 pounds can be won every Sunday evening and up to 100 000 every other evening. Pre-selected numbers are called in the same time window in each participating club.

UK Bingo clubs are permitted under law to play only three such games of multiple Bingo during any one day. Only a full house game (meaning all your numbers must be checked) is ever played in the NBG due to the size of the jackpot.

Remember, over three million people are regularly playing bingo in Great Britain in licensed clubs, so it’s a great way to meet people. People are often members of more than one club.