Play bingo and win a Mini Cooper….I bet you never thought you’d hear of an offer like that!!! Well, that’s exactly what the Winkbingo.com Promo for the holiday season is offering its online bingo players. Play online bingo to get a chance at winning a brand new ‘showroom shiny’ Mini Cooper. This is the topnotch promo this season on the UK online bingo scene…

The rules are very simple- Collect 500 points to get an entry ticket to the Wink Mini Game. Collect as many tickets as you can. Play online bingo or get a little creative to collect those points. Or simply pre-buy game tickets for £ 10.

To go the points route here’s the stuff you can do. Send in a picture of your current car to Winkbingo.com showing them why you need a new one and get a 100 bonus points. Wax lyrical and write a poem on why you need a new car and get 50 bonus points. Play the Mini pattern bingo games and get 10 bonus points for every Mini Pattern card purchased and for all bingos on the Mini and Wink patterns. Get 2 bonus points for every Pound wagered on bingo games at Winkbingo.com, and 1 bonus point on every £ 20 wagered on the Instant Games.

Play online bingo, get creative and collect those bonus points to win entry cards to the Wink Mini Game to be played on Tuesday, 1st January 2009 at 7.00 pm, GMT.

A Brand New Mini Cooper!!! Wouldn’t that be just marvelous!!!!

A super promo and completely incomparable prize. Grab this absolutely smashing chance to win a brand new Mini Cooper. Don’t forget- New Year’s Day at 7.00 Pm, GMT. Winkbingo.com is where you need to be.

This article was written for eyesdownbingo.com by Rhea- your online bingo news.

While some, such as Keith Whyte, believe that times have changed, others are not so sure.  Keith Whyte says:  “Gambling has become much more normative in our culture, in our society, and in the media.  If there were taboos about women only playing bingo, they’ve been erased.”  Of course, nowadays, men do play bingo.

Statistics do still show, at least in online bingo games, however, that the percentage of women playing bingo is far higher than that of men.  The stereotype of women, and retired elderly women especially, has provided much humour and amusement amongst bingo players and others.  It is often thought that old folk staying in nursing homes do nothing the whole day, apart from playing bingo.  Of course, this may or may not be true, depending on the old folk, of course!

It does however remind one of the quote by Florence King:  “I’d rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.”  Bingo is often thought to be a game played entirely by little old women.  While the game is played by many old women, and many women who are not so old, it is also played by men, both young and old.

John B. Keane once said of Irish women:  “I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo.  They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo.  And they deserve it.”

Dawn Wells also had her own thoughts about bingo playing old ladies.  There are those that want to retire and play bingo, and there are certainly those that have no desire to simply settle into a life of retirement and bingo playing.

Dawn Wells being one of the latter is known to have said:  “Just because a woman is over 50 does not mean she no longer has anything to offer.  If anything, we have so much more to offer!  We have lived life, we get better with age.  I do my best work now in my 60s.  Sure, I could retire; but what would I do?  Play bingo?  I think not!”

Loretta Weltz tells it like it is.  “It’s all about having fun”, she said “Some people sit in the bar, and we sit in the bingo hall.  She’s too old to line dance or I’d have her doing that.”

Betty Montgomery enjoys a game of bingo and notes that “[Playing scores of bingo games at once] is really exciting, … It’s good, clean fun in my old age.”

To sum up, Blaine Selva said “Eat, sleep and play bingo.”  What better way to pass the time could there be!

The word Bingo refers to various games such as card games, Housie, online Bingo or Scrabble. In the U.K. Bingo is associated with Housie, a game in which printed tickets of 15 numbers on three lines are used. Similarly in the U.S. Bingo is a game wherein a printed ticket of randomly generated 5 x 5 numbers is played. This is a very popular game in Canada as well. The online Bingo games came about with the emergence of Internet and wide spread use of computers in houses and offices. Bingo, in general, has a long and rich history one which dates back as far as the 16th century.

In North America, the term Bingo is used in the game Scrabble. It is also associated with video games. The connotation Bingo also denotes a dog in a folk song or a musical dance where a trio of boys is called “Bingo boys”. Even in the early 1991, a film called Bingo was released which was all about a dog. This game has originated from the Italian lottery and was primarily played by the French aristocrats. In the 19th century, variations of Bingo were used as an educational tool to teach children multiplication tables, spelling and history. Slowly throughout Europe, it became extremely popular and was regularly played at county fairs and carnivals.

In 1930, an American traveling salesman saw the game being played at a carnival in Germany. He found the game extremely exciting and decided to bring the idea back to America which acquired the name Bingo while being played amongst friends. The Bingo card game’s popularity spread steadily and the high demand led to the publication of instruction manual and monthly news letters. Slowly Bingo became the generic name for all variations of the game, including Internet and on-line Bingo. In 1986, the national Bingo game was legalized but the biggest change to affect the game was emergence of Internet Bingo game.  It is believed that more than 3 million people play on-line Bingo everyday. Bingo is a gambling activity more popular with women and younger people of both sexes.

Online Bingo games are free, provides fun and there’s always a chance of winning the jackpot! Players from all over the world come over to play the game and chat, too. This game is associated with fun, friends, socializing and unstoppable excitement. Online prospective players need to post their profile along with a photograph to become a part of the fun loving on-line Bingo community. Bingo chat rooms are the perfect place to play a fabulous range of various Bingo chat games. In live Bingo chat rooms players can catch up on the latest gossip, strike up new friends and develop a strong sense of community sentiment which has made online Bingo such a successful game.

At SpectraBingo the Freebies and bonuses start rolling in the moment you register- get 10 free bingo tickets as soon as you register!! With your first deposit you get a 100% cash match bonus AND a £ 10 gift. All other deposits get you a cool 50% cash match bonus. What you waiting for?? Get registered right now!!

This is one attractive online bingo portal with even more attractive prizes, jackpots and promos. £ 1 Million are up for grabs in the Coverall Jackpot. Every week bingo players are winning huge sums of cash prizes playing the £ 1 Million Coverall Jackpot. Cash prizes of £ 1500 and more are a very regular occurrence indeed and Spectra Bingo is doling it out real fast!! There’s even more cash being won in the Progressive Jackpots here with bingo players winning big bucks every time- more than £ 2000, even!

On weekends Spectra Bingo is giving out really cool gadgets and grown-up’s toys like the Apple iPod Shuffle, digital cameras from Samsung, MP3 Micro Systems from Sony and even Revolving Spice Racks!

Participate in the fun bingo promos- there are plenty of those here. Win big prizes and have a ton of fun playing online bingo at this super cool online bingo portal. Quirky promos like the Bingo Pays the Bills promo really make my idea of playing bingo fun and worthwhile too!! Simple rules- buy cards in the pattern games for ‘water’, ‘gas’ and ‘electricity’ and get a ticket to the month-end draw. If you win the game, you get one more ticket to the draw. Three random winners are drawn at the end of the month, one for each bill. Winners send in a copy of the relevant bill for the earlier month and SpectraBingo pays that bill!! Is that a practical Promo or what?

Easily one of the top UK online bingo portals- with lots of bingo and lots of prizes. Check it out today!

This article was written for eyesdownbingo.com by Rhea- your online bingo news.

It’s Scratchcard day at EyesDownBingo! Normally we focus on bingo, online bingo, and everything to do about bingo, but as it’s the season of festivities and fun and we thought you might be interested in virtual Scratchcards, or online scratchcards, otherwise known as instant games.

Scratch2Cash are a hot scratchcard website and if you haven’t seen their virtual scratchcards yet, you’re in for a surprise as they’re dead cool!

Want to try them out for free? Not a problem – all new players get a special £5 Free Bonus so you can have a scratchcard party on their wide range of scratchcards, instant games and slots too. Here’s the cool bit – each Scratchcard has a 1 in 3 chance of winning – and you could win up to a whopping £200,000 Cash on a single scratch!!

Your £5 Free should keep you going for a good while, but if it doesn’t last, your first deposit will get 100% Cash Match bonus up to 100% Free. There’s another option too, for the cooler dudes (and dudettes) among you – if you don’t claim the £5 Free, Scratch2Cash will give you a whopping 200% Cash Match on your 1st deposit up to £200 Free!! WOW! So, you pays your money and you takes your choice – GL!

You’ll love the instant games at Scratch2Cash, the designs are really great and there’s some cool Bingo themed scratchcards too, including Bingo Bonanza and regular Bingo – both of which will have you scratching and winning all night long! Why not give Scratch2Cash a go right now – you’ll get £5 absolutely free so you’ve got nothing to lose! Go scratch that itch right now and GL!

Poshbingo.com is the hugely popular bingo portal ‘for snobs’ which is making many waves on the UK online bingo scene these days. Not for nothing is it among the top online bingo portals with big promos and bigger prizes.
Play bingo and win anything from a Luxury Cruise to a FlatScreen TV. Win jackpots, bonus points and cash prizes too. Get rewarded and feel Posh right from the moment you register at Poshbingo.com. Get yourself a very generous welcome with 20 Free cards to help get you started. Make your first deposit and you get a 100% cash match bonus on your deposit for any amount between £ 5 and £ 100. And for every other deposit you make that is between £ 20 and £ 100 you still get a cash match bonus of 50%. This should make most bingo players quite happy indeed.
Win posh prizes here…luxury cruise around the Caribbean or a huge FlatScreen TV, the prizes here are posh indeed!! Both promos can be played with £ 1 game cards. The FlatScreen TV game is every Thursday at 9.45pm, GMT. So make sure you play bingo every other Thursday on Poshbingo.com, you never know, you might win yourself that big flat TV!!!
If you’re in the mood for a posh cruise worth £ 500, the games are on again, on the other Thursdays at 9.45 pm, GMT. Check the games lobby on Poshbingo.com for details. Every Thursday you can win either the cruise on the Caribbean or the big Flat TV playing bingo on Poshbingo.com.
There’s a daily Jackpot of £ 100 every single day, 7 days a week- and at just 10p a card! Play the Daily Guaranteed Jackpot game every evening at 8.45pm , GMT.
Lots of bingo with lots of prizes…Posh Bingo is the place to bingo.

This article was written for eyesdownbingo.com by Rhea- your online bingo news.

Bet365 Bingo is a new and fast upcoming online bingo room in the UK online bingo scene. A very neutral unisex look and a user friendly layout, all information clearly given- this portal looks like it has some serious bingo on its agenda.  Winner of the August Site of the Month on Bingostreet.com, Bet365 has got a strong vote of confidence from its online bingo players.

Welcomed with a free £ 10 no deposit bonus, bingo players get a 200% bonus on their first deposit up to an amazing £200, and a further 50% bonus on all their subsequent deposits. That is  a very generous welcome indeed.

Bingo players will find 75 ball and 90 ball bingo rooms, plenty of jackpots, chat games and other fun games to win bonus points.  And guess what??  You can even play online bingo here for FREE. Yes, they even have free games!!  Play free online bingo every Monday through Thursday- 7 to 7.30 pm and 8 to 8.30 pm, GMT. Go straight to the Island Hopper Room.  Free Bingo?? It can’t get better than that, can it?

You can enjoy bingo the rest of the day playing for as little as 5p in the Safari Room playing 90 ball bingo.  Yeah, 5p. Really.  And in case you think 5p is way too much…go play penny bingo in the Island Hopper Room, every afternoon from 2 to 3 pm, GMT.

They have some really cool and happening promos, be sure you stay in the loop. Bingo player Tarragona won 300,000 pounds  in the progressive jackpot..you could be the next big winner.
Remember to check out the huge range of other online games here. Everything from HI LO to Keno,  table games, sports and skill games, slots, they’ve even got Deal or No Deal, not to mention Poker, and tons of Casino games.

Bet365 Bingo also offers NETeller as a payment and withdrawal method– which gets you really, really quick payouts. By quick, I mean within just one hour. That, I think, is really amazing.  It’s really no surprise that this bingo portal at the top of the UK online bingo charts.

A great welcome, lots of bonuses, great promos, free games, a pleasing website, and really quick payouts- what more could a bingo player want? Bet365 gets my vote for sure!!

This article was written for eyesdownbingo.com by Rhea- your online bingo news.

This weekend, just stay stuck to Bingofabulous.com, don’t go anywhere!! There are so many exciting promos on Bingofabulous.com that it’s tough to decide which one to check out first..

£ 300 to be won on the Guy Fawkes theme promo- bingo on the G and F patterns and get an entry into the lucky draw.  Simple, huh??

Play online bingo at Bingofabulous.com this weekend and you can also win Biscuit the Dog, from FurReal.  “FurReal Biscuit My Lovin’ Pup” is one of the hottest favourites with the kiddies this holiday season-  your kid would have a fabulous Christmas with one of these …so go play bingo!! Bingo on the letter B on Friday, Saturday or Sunday and Biscuit could be yours..

Tonight, for £ 1, bingo players can win holiday vouchers worth £ 500. The game is in the Treasure Trove room at 9.45 pm, GMT.

Wait!! There’s more.

Plays as much online bingo as you can this weekend- the bingo player who plays the most gets £200 Free Cash!! You don’t have to win anything- just play and play. Do I hear anyone complaining??  There’s also the Love Cash £ 100 bonus….win the maximum bingos on the heart pattern and get £ 100 cash bonus. Check out the Zodiac promo to win 5000 Free Bonus points or participate in the Spot the Celeb contest to win a whopping 25,000 Free points.  Bingofabulous.com also has a Lucky Jar with £ 1000 up for grabs- just bingo on the # 32 and you can share the spoils from the Lucky Jar.  Weekend Chat Games add to the weekend bingo fun.
Play bingo for the Weekend Coverall Jackpot at 10.00 pm, GMT on Friday, and at 9.30 pm on Saturday.
So in case you were wondering what to do this weekend, Bingofabulous.com has got your weekend sorted for you. Cozy up with Bingofabulous.com this weekend and win, win, win!!!

This article was written for eyesdownbingo.com by Rhea- your online bingo news.

Winkbingo.com is not the top UK online bingo portal without reason. It is rushing to the top as the most popular online bingo portal with tons of online bingo fun and a whole host of zany and very original promotional activities and events- even those where you don’t have to actually play any bingo!

The Winkbingo.com online bingo portal had a most unusual bingo promo in October where there was no bingo playing involved!! You just had to show up at the given location and you got your portrait taken professionally, absolutely free. No bingo games, no purchasing cards, no ‘good luck’ involved!

Here’s what the promo was all about- a very simple, but brilliant idea. Winkbingo.com invited bingo players to a predetermined venue where they could get a portrait shot by a professional. Not just a picture of you standing with your sis or your best bud, grinning into a camera, but a professional job.

The first Portrait event was held in Birmingham and it was such a hit that they had more events at Dudley and at Redditch. Participants got their portrait shot by a professional photographer and were given one professionally done print to take home. Additional pictures have been put up on the Winkbingo.com website. So you not only got a great portrait of yourself, you also got your 15 minutes of fame on the Winkbingo.com Portrait gallery. The promo events happened in October and you can still view beautiful portraits of bingo fans on the Winkbingo.com website.

Winkbingo.com is truly one of the best online bingo websites with lots of bingo games and some really fantastic promotions. I really like this bingo portal because there’s so much going on here and Winkbingo.com really involves its bingo players in its promotions. You get much more than free cards and bonus points- very often it’s something real special like a professionally done portrait done for you with absolutely no strings attached.

A truly super offer from a super bingo portal.

This article was written for eyesdownbingo.com by Rhea – Your Online Bingo news

Free Bingo Competition – Win a shiny new pink laptop!

This month at online bingo portal BingoStreet there’s a hot pink laptop up for grabs – one lucky online bingo fan will be the proud owner at the end of November – and for hardly any extra effort! All you have to do is submit a short story or poem to the Bingo Forum at BingoStreet, about your favourite Wink Bingo experience – it can be funny, happy, sad, bad or just plain stoopid – if it wins votes from the Bingo Forum members at BingoStreet then you could walk away with a laptop that’s made for playing bingo online!

The competition is still open, but only for 2 more days. The deadline to submit your story to the Bingo Forum is Nov 20, as this is when the Forum members will start voting on their favourite entries. So the sooner you submit your Wink Bingo story the better!

Check out the vital statistics of the pink laptop here: http://bingostreet.com/bingostreet-pink-laptop-giveaway - I think you’ll agree it’s a mighty fine beastie! Just think, you could be playing at your fave online bingo sites on this very laptop in December!

So put your bingo thinking hats on and write down one of your most memorable Wink Bingo experiences – you never know, you might just win a cool laptop for your trouble! GL bingo buddies!