Monthly Archives: September 2008

After President George Bush called for a $700 billion bail-out of America’s financial markets, here at WhichBingo we couldn’t help but wonder just how much bingo that money would buy.

Call us crazy, but we tend to see everything from a bingo point of view. So, while Mr Bush, along with John McCain and Barack Obama, gets down to the serious business of fixing America’s economy, we’ll indulge ourselves with a big bingo fantasy! Continue reading →

As Strictly Come Dancing fever sweeps the nation once again, we would like to remind everyone how well a bit of ballroom goes with bingo!

After all, both ballroom and bingo are british institutions. Throughout the 20th century, people headed to bingo halls and community centres around the UK to partake in midweek bingo sessions and the same venues would host ballroom dancing at the weekend. Continue reading →

After a turbulent week for bankers and businessmen, bingo remains buoyant!

The credit crunch, financial crisis, global cash meltdown – or whatever you want to call it – has led to some high profile casualties in the business world this week, including US investment bank Lehman Brothers.

But the online bingo boom has continued its growth and some of our favourite sites here at WhichBingo UK have gone from strength to strength. Continue reading →

Picture this. The curtain goes up and on the giant cinema screen a young, muscular Arnold Schwarzenegger holds a sword. The narrator’s voice booms: “In his first adventure, he stole the treasure of three kings and crushed the empire of an evil scorceror. But now, Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as Bingo the Barbarian!”

As Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California casts his eye over a bill that could potentially see online bingo opened up to thousands of people in his state, we take a look at what might have been if Arnie had married his action hero characters with our beloved game. Continue reading →

Anyone catch All Star Family Fortunes on Saturday night? Well, if you weren’t too distracted by Vernon Kay’s dapper suit and fancy new haircut, you might have spotted the latest development of the online bingo TV invasion!

Wink Bingo are the sponsors of the show’s new series and some cute creatures were seen promoting a bit of bingo in the ad breaks. Continue reading →

It has been a bumper week for British football with Theo Walcott helping England to victory and Scotland’s impressive triumph over Iceland. Meanwhile, British bingo has been on the up as well!

The likes of Walcott, Frank Lampard and the rest of Fabio Capello’s boys may have grabbed the headlines with their World Cup qualifier win over Croatia, but at WhichBingo UK the big news is all about balls of a different game – bingo! Continue reading →

As the world waits with baited breath, scientists in Switzerland are conducting the biggest physics experiment in history. Meanwhile, here at WhichBingo UK, we’ve been doing some experimenting of our own!

The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) in Geneva is being used to recreate conditions similar to those at the time of the big bang in attempts to discover how matter gains mass. But our major concern is the science of how to win big at bingo! Continue reading →

After last week’s launch of Obama-Bingo.com – the site that invited you to mark off words as Barack Obama said them in his acceptance speech – this week it was the turn of John McCain at the Republican Convention. There … Continue reading →

Its been impossible to ignore the US election hype this week and, while Barack Obama was wowing the crowds at the Democrat Convention, an online bingo site in his honour was raising money for charity! Two entrepreneurs from Denver, USA, launched Obama-Bingo.com … Continue reading →