Glorious Bingo Review

If you are searching for a place to enjoy all of your favourite bingo and slot games, Glorious Bingo could be just the place to welcome you in. This bright and welcoming site has a £50 bingo bonus to start you off and plenty of games to play, though rather a lot of it stays behind the join form.

Let’s dive into what this site offers by reading our full review below…

Glorious Bingo Facts

Welcome Offer

Glorious Bingo’s offer is a straight match. Pay in at least £10, add the code WELCOME50, and the site doubles your first bingo deposit, up to £50. Deposit a tenner and £20 goes into the account. Go the whole way to £50, and you start with £100.

A step in the small print catches people out. You don’t claim this on the registration form. The terms tell you to open the Offers tab and press Deposit from there, so a first deposit made through the ordinary cashier route can miss the bonus altogether.

Two other conditions are set out alongside it. You can’t combine it with any other promotion, and it’s bingo money only, so the slot grid is off limits until it converts.

WELCOME50 is the only code Glorious runs, and it works once, on that opening deposit. Be careful what you copy off a search result, though.

Bonus Wagering

The bingo bonus carries 4x wagering. Take the full £50, and that’s £200 of bingo tickets to play through before the bonus turns into money you can actually withdraw. UK rules now cap bonus wagering at 10x, so 4x sits well inside the legal ceiling rather than being a favour to you.

Your own money always goes first. The bonus stays locked away until the cash balance in your account reaches zero, which means the bonus only starts working after a losing run on your own funds.

Then there’s the bonus clock, and it runs twice. A credited bonus has five days to live, and then it’s gone. Separately, five days without logging in wipes every unwagered bonus off the account, winnings included. Cashing out does much the same job, forfeiting whatever bonus is left, so taking money out mid-bonus costs you the rest of it.

First Impressions

Glorious Bingo is a smart, clean site with a Grecian theme featuring a Goddess and a tranquil waterfall. It feels very calm and relaxing, and the homepage then scrolls through row after row of slot tiles before it tells you much of anything about the bingo. This site is part of Broadway Gaming Group something we are always happy to see. They are part of a brilliant network committed to bringing something new and exciting to players.

The goodwill runs out the moment you click the menu.

What You Can Actually See Before You Join

We went looking for the bingo schedule on our latest visit and never found it. The header carries five tabs. Home works. Bingo Games, Slot Games, Promotions, and Help all return a “Page not found” screen if you haven’t signed in, and we checked twice, once by loading the addresses directly and once by clicking through them. The footer’s Terms and Conditions link opens a page with a breadcrumb, a footer and no agreement between them. The document is real, and we read all of it, but only at the separate address the page quietly loads it from.

So somebody weighing up whether to open an account here gets a banner, a grid of slot thumbnails and a few paragraphs of marketing copy. Ticket prices, the promotions calendar, the help centre, and the terms are all hidden until you hand over your name, address, and date of birth. That is the single biggest reason this review scores where it does.

Bingo and Slots Games

Glorious Bingo offers a big selection of games. You can choose from several bingo rooms, including 90-ball, 75-ball, and 52-ball variations, with all sorts of jackpots and ticket prices. Don’t forget to check out their special jackpot games, where you can grab the best prizes! If 52-ball is new to you, it’s played with a deck of playing cards rather than numbered balls, and our guide to the types of bingo explains how a game works.

Tickets start at a penny, which is the site’s own figure and the sort of detail that matters far more than a headline jackpot if you play several nights a week.

The slot selection is also epic. Though many will no doubt head to this site for the bingo, anyone who wants to take a foray into slots is going to find plenty to fall in love with. With games from industry leaders like Microgaming and Eyecon, you get a great mix of big classics and modern titles. What’s more, the team is always on the hunt for the latest slot. They try to bring you new releases as quickly as possible, so you always have something new to play.

The homepage lists 700, and scrolling through it shows how they reach that number. This lobby loves a sequel. Temple of Iris, Shaman’s Dream, Kingdom of Cash, Shaman Spirit and Temple of Ausar all turn up twice over, as a sequel or a Jackpot edition, and four separate Pots of Gold games sit in the same handful of rows. Plenty of it is worth playing, mind, with Rugby Penny Roller, Action Bank, Fireworks Frenzy and a proper run of Slingo titles all in there. The point is only that 700 covers a fair amount of the same ground twice.

Game Preview

Mobile Bingo App

There is no app at this time, but that doesn’t mean mobile players cannot enjoy the site to the fullest. It’s fully optimised for mobile play, so you should be able to log on and enjoy everything it has to offer from your smartphone. This includes both bingo and slot games, all designed with mobile play in mind. This makes Glorious Bingo a fantastic, flexible place for you to play.

There’s nothing on the UK App Store either, and Glorious makes a virtue of that itself, with a No Download Required badge sitting in its own footer.

Signup and Login

When you arrive on the homepage at Gloriousbingo.com you will see a large banner that highlights the welcome offer. This banner includes a large button that takes you to the registration form. Here, you will need to enter essential details, including your full name, address, date of birth, and phone number; you’ll also choose your username and password to access your account and play on the site.

Deposit Options

Accepted payment methods include:

• Visa and Mastercard debit cards
• Apple Pay
• PayPal

Debit cards only, so a credit card is no use here, and there’s no Paysafecard or pay-by-phone option, whatever you may see listed for this brand elsewhere. Wire transfer turns up in the withdrawal table but isn’t offered as a way to pay money in.

PayPal is the one method that costs you something. Ten pence comes off each time you use it, going in or coming out, already built into the number the cashier shows you. Nothing else in the policy attracts a fee.

Glorious Bingo withdrawal limits have moved since we last wrote this page. The minimum is now £10 for both deposits and withdrawals. Previously the site accepted £5 deposits, but that is no longer the case.

Payouts are relatively slow. Every request spends two business days pending, then up to five more for cards and Apple Pay, which is where the four to seven working days comes from. PayPal is the quickest at four to five days, wire transfers stretch to ten, and none of it counts weekends or bank holidays.

Licensing and Regulation

Glorious Bingo is now part of the Broadway Gaming Group, which is fully licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission (account number 58267). The company on the paperwork is Broadway Gaming Ireland DF Limited, based in Dublin, and your bank statement will show payments as Broadway Gaming UK Ltd rather than anything carrying the Glorious name.

As you would expect, the brand also strongly encourages responsible gambling and promotes various safe gambling messages around the site. They also partner with a number of support organisations, including GamCare.

Support runs through help@bingosupport.org, which is the address printed in the terms and a correction on the one we had listed here before. Deposit limits and the other safer gambling tools sit under My Account once you’re registered.

Sister Sites

These bingo sites run on the same Dragonfish software as Glorious:

• 888 Ladies
• Robin Hood Bingo
• Moon Bingo
• Glitter Bingo
• Loony Bingo
• Gossip Bingo

Robin Hood and Moon are the nearest of these, running the same percentage, the same £50 ceiling and the same code as Glorious. Glitter, Loony and Gossip take the 300% up to £30 route instead, which does more for a small first deposit. Bucky Bingo is the pick of the family on the welcome offer, at 200% up to £100.

Broadway owns a good deal more than these. Our Broadway Gaming sites page covers the whole family, and our Dragonfish bingo sites listing goes wider still, to every brand on the software, whoever owns it.

Review Conclusion