I am looking after a friend’s house while they are on holiday and within hours of them leaving the alarm started going off. I’d go round, check everything was ok and reset it – not being able to see anything that might have triggered it. This happened about four times. Later that day I heard noises and went round to find a relative had also been tasked with overseeing the property. When I explained about the alarm they calmly said “Oh, that’s all right, it’ll be that flippin’ ghost again.”

I looked for the grin that would say this was a joke, but there was none. Now we live in a suburban semi, so it’s not what you expect to hear as a possible explanation.

Anyway, no sooner had I finished telling the guys in the office about this than I got further spooked as the next bingo piece I read was about a seance in a Mecca Bingo club to flush out another ghost. Spooky or what?

It is thought that the Mecca Bingo club in Rosehill has a ‘Grey Man’ ghost and members of The Ghost Club tried to contact him recently, with they believe some measure of success as the club is housed in a Grade II listed building from the 30′s and they experienced ‘unexplained sounds and bright lights’.

Of course, buildings don’t need to be old to be haunted, so gamers may be happier playing online bingo in their own home. Mecca Bingo is one of the most popular online bingo sites out there, so give that a try if you think there might be other presences at your local bingo hall than fellow bingo players.

You can have all the fun of a huge selection of bingo games and play Cashline bingo too. You don’t need to wait for a break to play slots as you can access them at the same time as you play from the comfort of your own armchair and the scariest thing you might come across is a spider running across the floor, lol.

I tried to be there by taking part in some of the Facebook contests that were held that had tickets as prizes, but was not successful. However, I would recommend a ‘like’ for Jackpotjoy to your Facebook page as this is a great way to find about extra offers and for added ways to win.

The community spirit is really strong here too. Much is said by critics of Jackpotjoy Bingo about the people that know each other well and treat the site as their own. However, Jackpotjoy has the sort of loyal and friendly community that many sites would like to build.

Many of these people have been with the site for many years and have had their share of losses as well as wins and would not play their online bingo anywhere else. When we play at a site no-one wants to see fellow players complaining about how much they have lost, especially if they are new to the site.

There is no automatic right to a win wherever or whenever we play, no matter how much we like to think we deserve it and we don’t like to have the fact that losing is a fact of life highlighted to us.

Anyway, lucky bingo game and contest winners all came together on 9th July to see the Queen of Bingo, Barbara windsor and her entourage in all their finery. Fun and games were on offer all over the grounds and of course the obligatory bingo games were played too.

Here is what one lucky attendee, Jolene, had to say: ‘Hi all at Jackpotjoy, I just wanted to sat a BIG, BIG thank you for what you did for me before the party and on the day – it was amazing:O)  I had the most Fantastic time there. I could list lots of great things, but we would Be here all day so I will leave it to a Plain and Simple – Massive (( THANKS)) *SO MUCH* lots of love JOJO :O) :O) xxxxxxxxx’

Bingo players and the even Queen herself let their hair down – check out this lol moment I bet Barbara wishes she had avoided!

Oooops!! Not a good look for Babs

No doubt Jackpotjoy will run a similar offer again so be sure to join the site now to get to know all about it and maybe make new friends. Right now there is the chance to win a holiday to Tenerife – so this is one site that does not skimp on the big giveaways.

I don’t know about you, but I would have problems getting my bank to accept bingo tickets into my account instead of cash, lol.

As you would imagine the National Union of Journalists has not taken too kindly to this latest development by a company said to be failing in a lot of areas.

Jenny Lennox, on behalf of the NUJ, said:  “We are entering a whole new never-never land when we find that the company is now resorting to bingo to keep afloat – and pay massive management salaries – while cuts to its journalistic service to local communities are driving away readers, advertisers and revenue. She went on “It will take a lot more than Bingo to restore that reputation, and the NUJ demands that Johnston management begins today to work with its skilled and dedicated journalists to rebuild a stable of newspapers of which readers, staff and the group can be proud.”

The offer is said to be 40 free games, but with a provision that says they are not allowed to win the largest prizes. Now this might sound generous, but a quick look at my local paper shows that the publication is offering readers 30 free games too. Looking closely this actually means 30 free tickets, which we all know doesn’t go far. Bingo Today does offer £25 free for a first deposit of £10, but those 40 free games that the journos are being offered won’t go far to filling their wallets if my experience in online bingo is anything to go by.

It’s not clear if they are being offered the games as a one off or on a daily basis, although my guess would be it is a one off and possibly more a stunt to have lots of other publications print the story and bring attention to the new bingo site – clever eh??

I wonder if The Sun or The Daily Mirror will follow the example of Johnston Press and offer their staff free tickets at Sun Bingo or Mirror Bingo? How  will they get round the terms and conditions of the sites that usually state that employees and representatives and their families cannot take part in games or competitions run by the paper?

So many questions, so few answers. Free, much needed, publicity is the common theme that keeps running through my mind and if this is the case then job done. If it is a genuine offer then shame on you Johnston Press.

As well as the great first deposit bonus available on sign up of 300% Bingo Hollywood have a market leading reload offer of 75%, which gives so much more bingo game play for your money. On top of this Bingo Hollywood are not stingy with the SPs (Star Points that is – same as bonus bucks at other bingo sites). The Chat Hosts are constantly playing chat games in most rooms either every game or every other game and there does not seem to be a restriction on the number of times anyone can win.

Recently for instance there was a chat game based on trivia, entertainment and general knowledge run on a tournament basis. For two hours questions were asked every game and the first three bingo players with the correct answer got 3000 SPs each and points, 3,2 and 1. The top three players at the end of the two hours received another 7,000, 5,000 and 3,000 SPs – I wasn’t even there for the full two hours and walked away with 15,000 SPs – that’s £15 free bingo money for having extra fun while playing my favourite bingo games.

Bingo Hollywood have also recently trialled team bingo and this is where I think the site might have missed a trick in encouraging extra bingo game play.

The incentive to join a team was a huge pot of 2 million SPs up for grabs across the four teams. Every time a team member won a bingo game 10 points were awarded to the team tally. The team with the most points at the end of the weekend win a share of 1.25 million SP’s.

The team bingo has run over the last two weekends, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but only between 7pm and 11pm. Now, to qualify for a full share of the prize pot, a minimum of 100 bingo games had to be played, but even I had a life this weekend and tore myself away from my computer screen to spend time with friends on Saturday night. This meant that I couldn’t earn points for the team (Brad and Angelina by the way if anyone’s interested) and couldn’t build up my tally of bingo games.

In addition when a fellow bingo player won a bingo game there was no way of knowing which team they were earning points for unless you kept looking for them on the team boards of if they said which one in chat.

There was so much more opportunity for BingoHollywood to capitalise on both the community spirit that was blossoming in the competitive environment and in encouraging more bingo games to be played by more people if the competition had been allowed to run all through the weekend. I know I would have played more games during the daytime if I had the chance to earn points for my team.

I have just checked the leaderboard and team Brad and Ang were beaten by just 20 points by team Barbie and Ken, but even though my team were second and I did not play a full 100 games I have still walked away with over 11,000 SPs. That’s in affect £11 cashback on my weekend spending and I had a load of fun too.

Anyway, I certainly hope that BingoHollywood run Team Bingo again as it certainly has the potential to be a winner, both for the bingo site and for us the bingo players.

If you haven’t tried it yet, just log in to your Facebook page and search Wonder Bingo and bookmark it.

It is really easy to get up and running. Once you are in the application prompts will pop up to get everything in place so you can start playing bingo:

- Play bingo – using Daily Credits applied by Wonder Bingo each time you log in. When you win a bingo game you do not receive more credits, but WonderBucks.

- Players buy or send virtual gifts to friends or other players using WonderBucks.

- The more gifts bought or sent elevates your Community Status.

- The higher your Community Status the more free Daily Credits will be applied to your account.

- The more Daily Credits you receive means you can stay and play bingo longer.

That’s all there is to it.

There are speed bingo games and normal bingo games and cards of various cost, not to mention slot games to play on the side.

Everyone is really friendly and the virtual gifts are flying about all over the place.

Can you imagine a ready made audience of 14,000 people for (yet another!!) new online bingo site?

I like 75 ball bingo which is the only variant currently available, but may alienate bingo 90 lovers. I’ve tried a few of the rooms, but my credits are running out too quick as I keep buying the full quota of four tickets.

I think this is a perfect device to get the younger generation to accept online bingo as an acceptable passtime with its Facebook association and you can just use it while chatting to your online friends.

I want to increase our Facebook presence at the WhichBingo Facebook page to make it easier for us to discuss all things bingo – good and bad, vent your spleen about a bad site or rave about a good one.

If you are not already a fan come and join me today – http://www.facebook.com/whichbingouk – I look forward to seeing you there.

Bingo.com’s new software has enabled them to offer players bingo games over smart phones, and WhichBingo UK has just announced the launch of Bingo Anywhere – a site that claims to offer bingo anywhere, anytime on your mobile.

I haven’t played at the site yet but there is a £20 sign up bonus and if what they’re saying is true, you’ll soon be able to play their bingo games and slots no matter where you are or whatever else you’re doing!

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This morning I learned that one of the internet’s most famous and long-standing bingo sites, Bingo.com, has chosen Cozy Games as its new software provider.

For players at the site, that means lots of new features, including over 30 new slots machines with six progressive jackpots!

The new software will also offer players one free bingo card for every two that they buy and loyalty points for every wager.

The Bingo.com team have always been right at the forefront of the bingo market, so it’ll be exciting to see how their site develops with new software!

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Sky Bingo is a great place to play and if you head over there on a Wednesday evening, you can play for a £5,000 guaranteed jackpot in the Premium Room and the Value Room at 9.30pm. Tickets for the game are just 25p.

The site also offers a daily guaranteed £1,000 jackpot bingo games for just 10p a ticket!

All these crazy jackpots and cheap tickets culminate on November 6th when you can play for a £20,000 Sky Bingo jackpot for just 2p a ticket!

Don’t miss out.

Which Bingo’s sources revealed today that Silk Bingo has just launched and is available to play at right now. The WB team were so quick off the mark, they reported the news of the launch before the site was even listed on Google!

The site itself looks like a rather classy establishment, and with 20 free bingo cards upon registration, it certainly seems worth a look.

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The two bizarre, terrifying stories both ended happily, with the little boy found in the attic of his house and the baby escaping with only a bump on the head.

After two such harrowing tales, I am definitely in need of some light relief and a bingo game. Fortunately, there is a new TV ad from Sky Bingo to check out today, as well as their £20,000 jackpot game, which costs just 2p to enter!

Let’s hope the rest of the weekend is free from drama and full of bingo!

BingoBoy