Bingo Room Games

Every bingo site runs 90-ball and 75-ball games, but most rooms use names rather than numbers. Walk into a lobby, and you’ll find Penny Lane, Turbo Gold, Rodeo, Cinco, Emmerdale Bingo and Cash Cubes instead.

This is our guide to those named rooms: what each one does differently, which sites run it, and which ones are the same game under a different name.

If you want the formats themselves first, types of bingo explained covers 90, 80, 75, 50 and 30-ball. For a single-player game you can try, see video bingo; it plays as part bingo, part slot.

Same Game, Different Room Name

Many UK sites share games through Playtech’s bingo network, and network rooms share players and jackpots. Each site then gives the room its own name. The jackpot is the giveaway. When we checked the lobbies side by side, these rooms were all showing identical jackpots at the same moment:

The figures move all day, so treat them as a snapshot. The point is the match. Rodeo regulars at PlayOJO are sharing a pool and a progressive with Mecca’s Born in the USA players. It also means a room’s player count on one site isn’t the whole picture.

Mecca does something similar inside its own lobby. Main Event, Two Little Ducks, Penny Lane and Age of the Gods Bingo all showed the same £25,169 jackpot when we visited, so they feed one shared pot.

Sun Bingo adds a few more names of its own. Its Liberty Bingo room showed £13,994 at lunchtime on 9 November, the same pot as Born in the USA and Rodeo, and Speedy Bingo sat at £2,779, matching Turbo Gold.

The £675K Bingo Blizzard

The biggest thing on the Playtech network this winter is the £675K Bingo Blizzard, a three-night championship played out in the Bingo Championship Series room. It runs on 28 November, 29 December and 30 January, with the £500K final last. Opting in gets you 10 tickets for the first night. Our Bingo Blizzard guide has the dates, ticket rules and every game’s prize table.

Deal or No Deal Bingo

Deal or No Deal turned up in more lobbies than any other branded game, and it comes in more than one flavour. Mecca, Gala, Sky, Buzz and PlayOJO all run 90-ball and 75-ball versions. On the Playtech sites, those are network rooms, which is why their jackpots match to the penny. Our Deal or No Deal Bingo guide follows a full Banker round and both jackpots.

tombola has its own family built in-house. Its Deal or No Deal Bingo runs from 10p to £2 with progressive jackpots starting at £500 and a bonus round in every game. Banker’s Bonus (5p to £2, wins up to £10,000) and Banker’s Vault (from 5p, instant prizes up to £1,000) sit alongside it, plus a Deal or No Deal free game.

Fluffy Favourites Bingo

Fluffy Favourites, the slot, has its own bingo room too. We found it at Buzz and at PlayOJO, where the Fluffy Favourites Bingo jackpot stood at over £40,000 with tickets at 5p. Like Fishin’ Frenzy at Gala and Age of the Gods at Mecca and Sky, it’s a slot brand turned into a bingo game.

tombola’s Own Games

tombola builds every game itself, so nothing in its lobby turns up anywhere else. The classics are numbered by ball count: bingo90 (10p to £2), bingo80 (25p to £1), bingo75 in Lines and Shapes versions, bingo60, bingo40 and bingo30, where you only need nine numbers to win.

The twists are where it gets interesting:

• Cinco runs from 5p to £2 and has a Double Full House prize.
• Pulse lets you choose your room, with jackpots up to £20,000.
• Potion gives three chances to win in every game.
• Blocks has two prizes per game, and Bloom asks you to match all 15 symbols.
• The Machine pays three prizes as a pressure gauge fills and erupts.
• Stakeback can win you your stake back, from as little as 2p.
• Super7 Bingo has seven chances to win per game.
• bingo Lite (2p to 40p) and Paper (1p to 40p) are the budget rooms.
• Picture Bingo comes in three themes, from 5p to £1.50.

tombola also keeps game pages up for Nevada, Starship and Bingo Roulette, though they weren’t on its main games list when we looked. Our tombola bingo games guide goes through every one of them, with the jackpot targets side by side, and our tombola review covers the site itself.

Mecca and Kitty Bingo Rooms

Mecca has the longest list of named rooms of any site we checked. A few to know:

• Penny Lane is 1p bargain bingo, with an hour of free games every night from 8pm to 9pm.
• Best Odds Bingo (BOB) gives every player ten tickets in a room capped at 25 players, so everyone has the same chance.
• Burst Bingo and Emoji Bingo are 50-ball games Mecca labels “fair chance”. Emoji Bingo uses emojis instead of numbers.
• Cashline is Mecca’s 80-ball room, and a name club players will know from between-session games.
• Supersonic (from 1p) and Turbo Gold are the speed rooms.
• Jive Talking is 75-ball, “USA style”.
• Dab and Blab Live runs on Friday nights from 8pm to 10pm, and Blingo opens at 9pm on Fridays.
• The TV and board-game rooms are X Factor Bingo, Loose Women and Snakes and Ladders, alongside Clover Rollover, 2’s Company, Fiesta Room and Lucky for Some.

Kitty Bingo also has a Main Event: Big Cash Money room, plus Penny Heaven (with free games from 8pm to 9pm), Bargain Box Bingo and Kitty 75. Both sites are running the Bingo Blizzard.

Gala Bingo Rooms

Gala leans on soap-and-quiz-show brands: Emmerdale Bingo, Coronation St. Bingo and The Chase Bingo all have rooms. Its Fishin’ Frenzy room is exclusive and Gala advertises it with one-in-three odds of winning.

Gala Live is hosted live every day from 7pm to 9pm, and Whack-A-Bingo is played daily. The rest of the lobby includes party rooms (Prize Pot Party, Fiesta Fridays, Big Games), budget rooms (Bargain Wins from 2p, Penny Bingo), and Bingo Beats, Winner’s Wheel, and Slingo Bingo.

Coral’s best-known room feature is its Bingo Bonanza, which we cover in our Coral Bingo review, and our Ladbrokes Bingo review covers its rooms.

Buzz Bingo Rooms

Buzz mixes network rooms with its own. The Buzz-only names include Buzz Blast, Buzz Pennies, £100K Big One, Super Sessions and Big Money Live (with an XL version). Then there’s Bullseye Bingo, Bouncy Balls Bingo, Go Go Bingo, Flash Room, Link Room and 5 Line Room.

Because Buzz has clubs as well as a website, some of its big games are played in the halls and online at the same time. Its £75K game on 28 November is one of those.

PlayOJO Bingo Rooms

PlayOJO renames almost everything. Rodeo, OJO Time, Turbo and Disco are the network rooms from the table above. Its own ideas include the Equaliser, where everybody has the same chance of winning, and a ladder of big scheduled games: Daily Delight, Weekly Wonder (a £5,000 game) and Monthly Marvel (£50,000).

There’s also a Rookies Room, The Penny Club at 1p, Pattern Party, Five Line Fun, Bingomania, Free and Fab and Bouncy Balls Bingo 60.

Sky Bingo Rooms

Sky Bingo keeps the names plain. Alongside the Deal or No Deal, Cash Cubes and Age of the Gods network rooms, it runs Sky Pennies (1p), Sky 75 (1p), Sky Lounge (2p) and the Anytime Room, which is PlayOJO’s OJO Time under another name. Sky also runs a room with free games from 7pm to 8pm every evening.

Sun Bingo Rooms

Sun Bingo runs the Playtech network rooms, from Deal or No Deal to Fluffy Favourites, alongside a set of rooms you won’t find elsewhere:

• Britain’s Got Talent Bingo opens in the late afternoon, with a Beat the Buzzer feature in some games.
• Winning Headlines is the newspaper’s own room, at 50p a ticket and one ticket each.
• Mystic Meg Bingo is a £1.50, one-ticket room with a £20 prize when we looked.
• Candy Club runs lunchtime buy-one-get-one-free games with an all-winners feature, and Penny Press sells 1p tickets.
• Bin-Go Big! is a one-off £50,000 Prize Rush game on 28 November, and over 7,000 players had already pre-bought for it when we looked.

Sun also carries Spirit Twister Bingo, a 75-ball network room open from noon to midnight with tickets from 50p. It caps the number of players, a multiplier can pay up to five times the full house prize, and a progressive jackpot starting at £1,000 goes off on a full house in 40 calls or fewer, half to the winner and half shared around the room.

Gamesys Bingo Rooms

The Gamesys sites, including Jackpotjoy and Virgin Games, run their own set of rooms rather than the Playtech network ones, and a lot of their tickets cost 10p. The best-known is Bubble Up Bingo, where a prize won on a double number pays twice, and a full house on 7 takes the Super 7 jackpot. The rest of the Jackpotjoy lobby when we looked:

• Fishin’ Frenzy Bingo turns the fish into the ball calls. Ships on the reels above the water switch on a bonus mode where called fish carry cash tags, and a progressive jackpot pays on a full house won on number 7. Gala also has a Fishin’ Frenzy room, which it bills as exclusive, though it’s a different game. We compare the two in our Fishin’ Frenzy Bingo guide.
• Superlinks is a 10p room with a £10,000 jackpot.
• Session Bingo sells a whole sitting at once. Jackpotjoy’s was £2.50 for the 3pm session, with over 400 players booked in.
• Playoff Palace runs free-to-enter games: a daily one at 8:45pm for £320 and a weekly one on Sundays at 9:15pm for £1,900.
• The everyday rooms include Sapphire with its Powerbolts jackpots, Bingo Times, Lounge, Cloud, Tiki and Emerald at 1p or 2p, and Snap Bingo.

Heart Bingo Rooms

Heart Bingo runs the Playtech network rooms, including Deal or No Deal, Age of the Gods and Cash Cubes, plus a scheduled room of its own, The Feel Good Bingo! Room. Its next game when we looked was 15p a ticket for £115, with 179 players already booked in.

Betfred Bingo Rooms

Betfred has a 50-ball room it bills as exclusive, Giddy Up Bingo. You get one ticket a game, at 10p, 50p, £1 or £2, and the dearer the ticket, the bigger the prize. Your ten numbers are horses and jockeys on a racetrack, and the first to see all ten called wins the house. A new game starts every four and a half minutes. The £1 game we looked at had 15 players and a £7.80 prize.

The room carries two jackpots. The Front Runner Jackpot pays on a house won within 19 calls, splits 50/50 between the winner and the rest of the room, and stood at £1,841 when we looked, from a £150 seed. Betfred says the second jackpot goes to the winner in full.

Rooms That Come and Go

Lobbies change. Themed rooms open for a season, and some only open at set times, like Mecca’s Friday rooms or tombola’s bingo live nights. Prices and jackpots quoted here are what the operators showed when we looked. If a room has closed or a new one has opened, we’ll add it.

If you are not sure where to start, we recommend checking out sites with a free newbie room, which offers a gentler entry into the world of online bingo.