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NEW!! HAPPY HOUR!
Every Day Throughout September @ 7PM

Welcome to Happy Hour!!! Berty is sloshed in the corner, and Gertie is giggling at the mess the Bling Purse has made all over the floor LOL! Just who let them get into the whisky?

During September at 7pm every day come and take advantage of the Blackpool bingo happy hour where there is double the bling payout for chat games! That’s right, if it was 50p before its £1 now! Come one, come all and bring your friends! It’s going to be a riot!

NEW!! FREE GAMES FRIDAYS!
Every Friday in August @ 8PM

Make sure you are logged in and ready next Friday from 8-9pm & 10-11pm! It’s Blackpool Bingo’s FREE Games Fridays where £400 is guaranteed to be won! (There’s even an hour of Rollers sandwiched in between!) WOOHOO!

These are special games where the cards are FREE but the Prize is £50 CASH! For those of you who have deposited twice or more the previous Monday-Sunday, you will also get one of ‘Berty’s Balls’ and the chance to win another £50 CASH. GL GL! We will email you your loyalty lottery ball number, so keep an eye out on your inbox

Remember you can always ask in chat for more details!!!

NEW!! CH BABY MIX UP!
12th - 31st August

Shake it up baby LOL. We have taken all of our gorgeous CH’s and mixed the up! Take a look at the following photos… aww aren’t they cute! LOL For the next three weeks we will have some photos of our CH’s at various stages of childhood. There will be different sets of photos each week. It’s your task to work out just who is who! To help you along the way, each of our chat hosts will have a new clue each day as to which photo is which! Remember to pop into chat each day and try to fathom out who is who

It’s eyes down and dobbers at the ready for bingo’s biggest jackpot. On September 15, bingo fans will be playing for the first ever £1million cash prize.

The new game - the Big N - will be played twice a day at 500 bingo halls across the country until someone wins the lot.

National Bingo Game Association spokesman Steve Baldwin says: “This is the largest-ever jackpot game in bingo’s history.”
And what a history it’s been - from the most basic bean markers to the Mirror’s ever-changing online sites, we take a look at the best of bingo…

It’s as old as the pyramids

Despite what you might think the popular game has, ahem, bingo-ing for centuries. Historians believe the Ancient Egyptians were playing with marked cards long before they got round to building pyramids.

Hundreds of years later a version of bingo, very much like the modern lottery, was being played in Italy. In 1530, during the unification of that country, the National Lottery was born - Lo Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia - which is still played today.

The French followed suit in the 18th century with Le Lotto, which was primarily a hobby of the upper classes. A caller would draw wooden discs numbered from one to 90 out of a bag and call them out to players.

Each player had a game board divided into nine rows and three columns and the winner was the first to cross off all the numbers.

But it wasn’t until the 1920s that the current popular format was born in the States. Toymaker Edwin Lowe came across a novel fairground game “Beano” at a carnival in Jacksonville, Georgia, where each player had a wooden card of numbers and a handful of beans.

When a number was called out, the player used a bean to knock it off their board. Knock off a straight line either vertically, horizontally or diagonally and you win a prize of a kewpie doll.

“When he finally closed at 3am, he had to chase them out… the players were practically addicted to the game,” Lowe recalled.

Back in New York, Lowe showed his friends how to play and one of his party was so excited at filling in the line, she shouted “bingo” instead of “beano”. The name stuck and Lowe marketed the first game, charging just one dollar.

Today, bingo has nowhere near the same appeal in America as it does in Britain and is mostly played in half-empty church halls.

In the UK, bingo owes its success to the 1960 Gambling Act, which allowed such betting activities in members-only clubs. The following year, Miss World founder Eric Morley brought the game to our shores.

The invention of the TV had rendered many theatres, dance halls and cinemas obsolete. So when bingo became popular, many of these fine buildings were converted into bingo halls.

And while the Americans might have developed the game, it was the Brits who brought in the balls. To add to the razzmatazz, glass cabinets fitted with fans and filled with numbered ping-pong balls were used to produce the numbers.

But these were difficult to build and unreliable. And in the 1970s, they were replaced by the Random Numbers Generator.
Source: Mirror UK

Welcome to the new and greatly improved Blackpool Bingo Roller Coaster JP.
Here’s how it works…

The first game will start with a £100 Jackpot that’s set to go in 35 balls. If it’s not hit first time around, then the JP drops by £5 to £95 but the balls to JP climbs to 36. Each time the JP isn’t hit it drops by £5 and the balls to JP go up one. The JP won’t drop any lower than £25 but the balls to JP will carry on climbing until it’s won! And if you don’t get the JP then there are some nice line prizes to keep you going.

When the JP goes the whole thing resets to £100 and 35 balls to JP again.

You can prebuy for these games in advance by clicking on the Special Tab in the Buy Cards area. The strips of 6 tickets cost 20p each and there’s a minimum buy of 5 strips. To help you maximise your chances there is a Buy 10 Get 5 Free special offer! Remember, the more cards you buy the better your chance of snagging the JP while it’s at the £100 level!

Good luck everyone!

TREASURE HUNT
13th August - 30th September

Berty and Gertie have been picnicking on the Beach. Berty had one too many ales and fell asleep… Whilst he was napping Gertie buried his glasses in the sand LOL! He’s all worried that he won’t be able to read the Bingo Balls and he’s starting to fret! Help Berty find his glasses based on the clues your chat host gives you.

Using the Bingo Balls as a grid help Berty discover which bingo ball his glasses are buried under. Be the first to guess the correct location of his glasses and yell out “BINGO I’ve Found Them!” to win £5 bling and the chance to win a trip to the Blackpool Bingo Gift Shop. You will be automatically entered into a draw for the Gift Shop Trip! There will be two of these, one at the end of three weeks, the other at the end of six weeks! See the schedule or ask in chat for the times to hunt for treasure!

BERTY’S SECRET POKER CLUB
12th August - 29th September, At Scheduled Time

Berty has the card table ready, and the cigars handy. Let’s get ready to play poker. Don’t forget ya best poker face! You don’t want to give your hand away LOL! Join us in chat to play Blackpool Bingo Poker. When a player bingo’s in chat they will use the colours of the first 5 balls from the next game to make the best poker hand possible. Every hand has an associated prize.

Possible Poker Hands:

• 1 Pair = 50p BB(2 balls of the same colour)
• 2 Pair = £1 BBs(2 balls of 1 colour and 2 balls of another colour)
• 3 of a kind = £2 BBs(3 balls the same colour)
• Flush = £3 BBs(5 balls of the same colour)
• Full house = £4 BBs(2 balls of one colour, 3 balls of another colour)
• 4 of a kind = £5 BBs(4 balls of the same colour)
• Royal Flush = £10 BBs (one ball of each colour in the B, I, N, G, O order)

With every game played you can email your best hand to paula@blackpoolbingo.co.uk to go into the draw to be one of Four players to beat Berty at his own game (date to be advised). Every player will have their own hand, and Berty will have his. Each game Berty will take the first hand and as a player you must beat his to continue on. The player who last the longest wins the £40 Bling, £30 for 2nd place £20 for 3rd and £10 for 4th.