The Bingo Blizzard is a three-night bingo championship with £675,000 in guaranteed prizes, run by Playtech across a group of UK bingo sites. We’ve spotted it at Mecca, Kitty, Buzz and PlayOJO so far. There’s a £75K night on 28 November, a £100K night on 29 December and a £500K final on 30 January, each one an hour of bingo in a room called the Bingo Championship Series.
Below are the dates, the free tickets, what each night pays, and how the final tickets are handed out.
Bingo Blizzard Dates and Prize Pools
All three sessions start at 9pm UK time and run for an hour, with ten games in each (a new one roughly every seven minutes). The whole promotion runs from 2 November 2026 to 10pm on 30 January 2027.
| Session | Date | Prize pool | Ticket price | Max tickets per game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £75K Bingo Blizzard | Saturday 28 November 2026 | £75,000 | 20p | 48 |
| £100K Bingo Blizzard | Tuesday 29 December 2026 | £100,000 | 25p | 48 |
| £500K Bingo Blizzard Final | Saturday 30 January 2027 | £500,000 | 30p | 60 |
Those ticket caps cap what anyone can spend. Buying the maximum on every game costs £96 on the first night, £120 on the second and £180 at the final. Most players will be nowhere near that, and nobody should feel they need to be.
One Network, One Prize Pot
Mecca’s terms describe the Blizzard as a network promotion run with Playtech, with the prize pools shared between every UK site taking part. So the room you join at Mecca is the same game as the one at Buzz or PlayOJO. You’re playing against everyone across all the sites, not just the regulars on yours.
That fits with something we noticed in the lobbies while researching this. Playtech sites often share the same games under different room names, and the jackpots give it away. Rodeo at PlayOJO, Born in the USA at Mecca and Bingo 75 at Sky Bingo all showed the same £13,937 jackpot at the same moment. The Blizzard just does it openly.
The sites we’ve seen running it so far:
- Mecca Bingo, under the lobby banner “Snowing £675K”
- Kitty Bingo, with the same “Snowing £675K” banner
- Buzz Bingo, as a featured promotion with its own Blizzard room tile
- PlayOJO, where the room is listed as “675k Bingo Blizzard”
If your site has a Bingo Championship Series room in its lobby, it’s in.
How the 10 Free Tickets Work
Opt in before 8:50pm on 28 November, and you get 10 free tickets for the £75K night, one for each of its ten games. No deposit is required, and you don’t need to play first. You opt in from the bingo lobby on your site.
The tickets play themselves. You don’t need to be in the room at 9pm for them to count, and any win lands in your account the same as a bought ticket would. You can’t swap, pass on, or cash them in, and they only work on the night they’re for.
Opting in only matters for the free and earned tickets. You can buy Blizzard tickets without opting in.
Earning More Tickets by Playing
After the free ten, you earn extra tickets from cash spent on bingo during each qualifying window. These are Mecca’s tiers:
| Cash spent on bingo | Tickets for the next session | Per game max tickets |
|---|---|---|
| £10 to £49.99 | 10 | 1 |
| £50 to £99.99 | 30 | 3 |
| £100 or more | 60 | 6 |
Only the highest tier you reach counts, so £75 of play gets you 30 tickets, not 40. Bonus money doesn’t count. Spend only registers once the game it was for has finished, so tickets bought ahead for next week’s games won’t count yet. At Mecca, play in the Cash Dash and Best Odds Bingo rooms is left out.
The windows close ten minutes before each session:
- £75K night: from 2 November to 8:50pm on 28 November
- £100K night: from 10pm on 28 November to 8:50pm on 29 December
- £500K final: from 10pm on 29 December to 8:50pm on 30 January
The rules aren’t identical everywhere. PlayOJO caps what you can earn at 70 tickets for the first night, 60 for the second and 140 for the final, so check the terms on whichever site you play. Our honest view is that the free ten are a nice extra, but chasing a higher tier is a poor reason to spend more than you’d planned. Sixty tickets spread across ten games gives you six chances per game in a room open to players from every site in the network.
The Road to the £500K Final
The first two nights also feed the final. Buying tickets during the £75K or £100K games earns final tickets on a separate scale: £10 to £24.99 gets you 10, £25 to £49.99 gets you 20 and £50 or more gets you 40.
Winning helps too. Every prize you win on either of the first two nights (one line, two lines, the full house or a Prize Rush prize) adds 10 final tickets, and there’s no limit on how many times that can happen. Someone who wins three times across the first two nights goes into January with 30 extra tickets before spending anything.
What Each Night Pays
Each session mixes normal games with Prize Rush games, where several players win each prize instead of one.
The £75K night spreads its money fairly evenly. Most normal games are worth £5,000 to £7,500; the three Prize Rush games pay out 12 or 15 prizes of £500 each; and the last game at 10:03pm is the big one at £15,000, with a £10,000 full house.
The £100K night has two peaks. The 9:35pm game is worth £17,500 (£10,000 for the full house), and the closing game at 10:03pm is £20,000, with £15,000 going on the full house.
The £500K final is built around the full house. Of the half a million on offer, £335,000 goes on full houses alone. Three games from 9:35pm onwards pay £50,000 for a full house, and the last game of the championship carries a £100,000 full house inside a £125,000 game. The Prize Rush games here pay £1,000 or £2,500 per prize.
| Session | One line | Two lines | Full house | 1TG & 2TG |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £75K night | £13,000 | £17,000 | £35,500 | £9,500 |
| £100K night | £13,000 | £22,500 | £54,000 | £10,500 |
| £500K final | £42,500 | £65,000 | £335,000 | £57,500 |
The last column is the “1 & 2 TG” prize. When the first full house goes, every ticket that was one or two numbers short shares this pot equally. It’s a nice touch, since a near miss in the big games still pays something.
Same Night at Buzz: The £75K Club Game
If you play at Buzz, 28 November is a busy evening. At 8:30pm, half an hour before the first Blizzard game, Buzz runs its own £75K game in its clubs and online at the same time: £25,000 for a line, £25,000 for two lines and £25,000 for the full house. The first six tickets cost £2, then it’s £1 for each additional six, up to 144 tickets.
It’s a separate game with its own tickets, so Blizzard tickets don’t get you into it. Plenty of players will do both, since one finishes not long before the other starts.
Where It Fits
Every Blizzard game is played for one line, two lines and a full house. If any of that is new to you, our guide to types of bingo walks through the formats, and our Rank Interactive page lists every site sharing Mecca’s platform.
For the other named rooms on these sites, and the Playtech games that run under a different name on each one, see our bingo room games guide.
We’ll update this page after each session with how it went.