The quest to break the record for the world’s highest game of bingo is on. A 24-strong team of Gala  employees from across Britain is setting out to complete the challenging task of trekking 75 miles and ascending 2,700 metres up the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest. This adventurous act will help raise £100k for Gala Coral’s group-wide charity Sue Ryder Care.

 Joining the team of trekkers is 42-year-old Mark Simm from Wigan – a bingo fanatic. Mark and his team will start their trek in Lukla on October 19 and should hopefully reach the Mount Everest base camp on October 24 and settle down to play the high-altitude bingo games. Mark and his team have been in training for this event playing bingo at a height of 400ft on top of St John’s Beacon Observation Tower, in Liverpool. They are shaping up by running long distance running and climbing hills. Says Mark : “It seems a bit daft, but if we’re going to do this challenge properly we need to be prepared so, apart from the high altitude bingo practice, I’ve also been playing double-speed bingo games to keep my mental faculties sharp because at 17,500ft, your thinking really slows down. This trek is a once-in-a- lifetime challenge for me and what keeps me going is the thought of standing on Base Camp, dabber in my hand, knowing that I’ll be raising vital funds for Sue Ryder Care. I hope we can do them proud.”

Simon Longbottom, managing director of Gala Bingo, said: “I am incredibly proud of Mark and the team who have volunteered for this challenge. I’m even prouder that we’ll be raising money for the excellent work of our nominated charity, Sue Ryder Care.” To support Gala Bingo’s fundraising efforts, play the bingo game dedicated to the cause. Visit Gala Bingo now and do your bit for a good cause.

Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene.

There are just a day left for the launch of Wink Bingo’s biggest promotion, appropriately called ‘The Big O’. The promotion kicks off on 13th September at 8 pm and guarantees at least 1 lucky winner of £25,000. The Big O game will take place in Wink Bingo’s Special 75 Ball Winktastic Room under the Summer Lovin’ Tab.

You can pre-buy your bingo tickets to this game at just £1 a card. You must buy a minimum of 5 cards and can buy upto a maximum number of 96 cards! Or you can accumulate points to buy free cards with 500 points being equal to 1 card into the game. ‘Big O’ bingo tickets can also be claimed for free just through playing regularly at Wink Bingo any time from now to the day before the jackpot bingo game takes place. Save as many Wink Points as you can so that you can collect those 500 points to get a free entry into this amazing game.

There are several easy ways to win Wintastic points in these two days so you need not panic! Send a Wink Bingo a short article on what you love most about Wink (minimum 50 words) OR send a picture that captures how you spent your summer holidays OR refer a friend of yours. Any of these will fetch you the coveted 500 Winktastic points. Plus, if you bingo on the Pot of Gold pattern then you get to win 50 Winktastic points. For every pound wagered on Bingo games there is 2 Winktastic points and for every 20 pounds wagered on Instant Games there is 1 Winktastic point.

Start collecting those Wintastic points straight away! Play Wink Bingo here.

Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene

Have you tried Gala Bingo’s new Rollaball Jackpot? It is loaded with lots of cash and everyone gets to be a winner. Sounds too good to be true? Well this brand new Gala Bingo Jackpot is premised on the principle that if you win then everyone in your room wins along with you. Which means that if you play the Rollaball game and manage to hit a full house within 32 balls, you win half of the climbing jackpot and the other half is shared by the rest of the roomies. If no-one claims the prize, the jackpot just rolls over and increases every passing day until the jackpot is won. This means that the prize money also increases with every game and so does your share. This is one game that would definitely keep online bingo players on their toes.

There will be four games on a daily basis at 11:55am; 15:55pm, 17:55pm & 21:55pm. That’s plenty of chances to play bingo and win this fabulous jackpot. Tickets are priced at only 15p. Each day the jackpot increases and along with that, one extra ball is added to the 32 balls that are already in place. Thus, the number of calls increases as well and so does your chances of winning the jackpot. Incase you do not win then you are definitely not going to feel bad for at least you get to share half of the spoil with the other roomies. So you end up winning no matter what.

This is an extremely smart game from Gala Bingo and will surely give their online bingo player something to look forwards to. If you are not a registered member of Gala Bingo then this new jackpot bonanza will definitely tempt you to open an account with Gala Bingo. Visit Gala Bingo site now.

Written for www.londonbingo.co.uk by Irene