Do you check out their promotions first to see what they have going on, or find out whether they offer daily free bingo games which keep you playing whether you can fund your account or not?

In general bingo sites look the same from the outside, but believe us what lays beneath is definitely not the same from one site to the next. Getting a bonus is all well and good, but do you look to see what the wagering requirements are on the bonuses they hand out?

Wagering requirements can be astronomical at some sites and worth picking up at others, which is why we would always recommend finding out just what they are before commencing play at any bingo site – otherwise if you have a win and try to withdraw the cash back to your account, you could end up very disappointed indeed.

We have seen some sites with minimum withdrawal figures of £50 (which is very high) and means you would have to have clear funds of £50 or more (which have met their wagering requirements) before you can even think of being able to withdraw.

It is well worth checking out our review section to see the differences between sites before deciding what one would suit you best. Do you homework first, decide what it is you are looking to get out of the site you are playing at and if you are looking to instantly be able to withdraw winnings (without worrying about wagering requirement rules) we would recommend taking a look at Ladbrokes Bingo or Mecca Bingo – as both these sites only offer a bonus on your first deposit – which effectively does away with those very annoying bonus requirement rules.

Other sites like Foxy Bingo / Wink Bingo / Tasty Bingo and Think Bingo do offer bonuses on all deposits made, but their wagering requirements on these bonuses are quite low compared to some, so getting a bonus from them can be a good thing and not a hindrance.

Big Brother Bingo will be the newest site on the joy of bingo fleet, the people behind Wink Bingo, Posh Bingo, Tasty Bingo, Red Bus Bingo and Bingo Street. So one thing is for sure this site definitely comes from good branded bingo stock, but will they offer anything different than what is available already?

Well if the previous joy of bingo sites are anything to go by Big Brother Bingo will be powered by software belonging to Brigend Limited which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cassava Enterprises (Gibraltar) Limited (“Cassava”) and they will be on a standalone footing – which means they are not networked and what they have to offer is exclusive to them.

As Big Brother Bingo is not yet live, when you type in their address on your tool bar you are currently only given a snip bit of information about what this new site will offer.

We can tell you though that they are all set to bring you 24 hour online bingo action with 75 ball, 90 ball and 5 line bingo available to play. There should also be a room to suit all your budgeting tastes as free and 1p games will be on their tables, plus loads of guaranteed jackpots and all the latest instant win / slot and scratch card games you could think off.

If you love big brother we think you will like this site as you will also be able to catch up on all the big brother action every night in their community section and win some super (money can’t buy prizes) like VIP guest pass tickets to BB eviction nights, which include exclusive behind the scenes access.

All new Big Brother Bingo housemates will be greeted with a 200% on their first deposit made and this offer will be valid on all first deposits between £5 and £100.

The current Celebrity Big Brother has yet again got everyone talking with all the antics going on, but we will have to wait and see whether Big Brother Bingo will also prove to be a massive hit – However with the team behind them, we think they will have players flocking to test out their wares in no time at all.

The team at Wink Bingo put on some outstanding promotions last year and we look forward to more of the same throughout 2012.

For your info the happy £2,012 game is set to take place on Saturday 28th January at 9pm. There are even prizes on this one for 1tg, and as it will be played on the 90 ball format you will have lots of chances to win! Pre-buy is available to use, so you can log onto wink now and grab those 20p tickets.

The now famous joy pot is also back in earnest, but this time it has been converted into the (love pot) as the next time it will come out to play will be on valentine’s day 14th Feb. This fab joy pot game comes loaded with a guaranteed prize pot of £15,000 and it will take place at sister site of wink, Tasty Bingo.

You can still play at Wink Bingo though and collect (pot point credits) which could give you free cards into the valentine £15k joy pot game at Tasty. In fact points can be collected at all their sites involved in this offer, which include posh, red bus and bingo street as well.

Each time you clock up 500 pot point credits it will equal one free card for you. You must ensure that you use the same email address at all these sites though, otherwise you will miss out on this point accumulation.

When playing at any of these sites you will earn points as follows.

Every bingo win on the pot of gold pattern gets you – 5 points
Every £10 wager on bingo games clocks up – 2 points
Every £50 wager on instant games gets you – 1 point
Each win you have on the number (15) gives you – 1 point
To pick up (20 free points instantly) simply send them an email stating what the most romantic thing someone has done for you

Free cards can be earned for this game right up until 5th February and of course you also have the option of purchasing tickets yourself at a cost of £2 each. The £15,000 jackpot prize must be won on the night.

Their 12 days of winkmas offer will start on Christmas day and run until 5th January, so this one will be playing throughout the festive activities. Every single day there will be something different up for grabs and you can expect to be in with the chance of winning some of these prizes – Breakfast tea set, leather dog collar, bingo funds, real cash, ultimate party CD and lots more besides.

This offer is based on an IG tourney, so to be in with the chance of winning any of these prizes it will be all about playing at their site on the day coming top in the tourney.

On Christmas day itself a guaranteed £5,000 jackpot game will also be coming out to play at Wink Bingo, plus you could even win a slice of this cash without actually winning the game by getting 1tg or 2tg. Now the team at wink are not stupid and they know lots of you will be busy on 25th December, so to make sure you do not miss out (pre-purchase) is available to use, which means you tickets will play for you whether you are logged on or not.

This is a £5k secret Santa game, so they will not be revealing how those prizes will be dished out until the day itself. Your cards will cost 50p each to purchase and you can log onto their site and buy them as from now.

Let’s not forget that they are also bringing you the chance to win a brand new 1.6 Mini Cooper Car and you could win this amazing prize for free as well! Wink Bingo have been running this promo over the past few months bringing you the opportunity to earn points and it is these points which will be converted into free bingo tickets for lots of you! You can of course simply purchase your tickets for this game as well and these will cost £5 each. This super game will take place on New Year’s Day and what a way to see in the New Year this would be!

The festive fifty is currently coming out to play on Wink Bingo every single night and it brings you the chance to win a guaranteed £50 jackpot prize from stakes of 2p. Also running alongside this is the joy million a month, £1500 risk free Xmas special, £5k secret Santa, 12 days of winkmas and their almighty win a brand new Mini car!

Now that is what you call a super Christmas round up and here are more details about these fab offers.

On the last Sunday of every month the joy of bingo group will make one of you a points millionaire! To date we have never ever seen a one million pound online bingo winner, so you could say this is the next best thing.

For your info, Red Bus Bingo will be hosting the next one million points game at their site on 25th December and each of the five joy of bingo sites will take their turn to run this game on a monthly basis. All the sites involved in this offer include Wink, Posh, Tasty, Red Bus and Bingo Street.

The joy Xmas £1500 risk free special games will once again be taking place across all five of their sites and they are calling this (risk free bingo) because you can get all your stakes placed on these games back. It is quite simple really, if you purchase tickets for 1 game and do not win you will get 10% cash back, buy tickets for 2 games and get 25% cash back, 3 games 50% cash back, 4 games 75% cash back and all 5 games 100% cash back – so you just cannot lose.

The £5k secret Santa will take place on Christmas day and as the name of this promo pretty much suggests up for grabs will be a guaranteed £5,000 jackpot prize. You can pre-purchase your tickets for it at a cost of 50p each and on this one you can even win a slice of that cash from getting either 1tg or 2tg.

If you car has seen better days or you fancy being in with the chance of winning a brand new Mini, you are going to want to take part in their (win a Mini) game which is set to play on New Year’s Day at 8pm. Wink Bingo have even given you the opportunity to win free cards for this super game, so this amazing prize could be won effectively for free as well – now wouldn’t that be something!

Tracey and Chris met in one of their chat rooms while playing bingo and are now married! This online romance is one of the most sensational stories at Wink Bingo and we’re all thrilled for this couple.

Cheeky Chappy Chris chatted up Tracey in the Wink Bingo chat rooms and they eventually exchanged phone numbers. Chris asked her out after a few conversations and they met up. It was love at first sight for both! They lived more than 100 miles away from each other.

Chris had described himself as a short guy with thinning hair, mismatched eyes and with one leg shorter than the other! However they felt a strong attraction and decided to meet in spite of the distance and Chris’s ridiculous description of himself. That meeting changed everything for this bingo loving twosome.

They courted for two years and then Chris asked Tracey to marry him. She agreed and they got married in the Old Barn in Esholt and went off the Canary Islands for their honeymoon. We wish them years of happiness together as they settle into married life.

Chris and Tracey have been playing online bingo games at Wink Bingo for quite a while and both love the site. With so many games to be played every day, tons of jackpots on offer, special promotions and bonus offers, Wink Bingo has a lot to offer to its members. It’s not just a whole lot of fabulous games that they provide but also a great platform for players to interact with each other. The chat rooms are always lively and buzzing with activity.

Log in to the chat room when you buy into a game and become a part of the fun that goes on in there. Just chat with other players and the chat hosts or play the innumerable chat games where you can win tons of chat points. That’s just what Tracey and Chris did and they found each other, the best jackpot of all.

New members get a very warm welcome with a 200% First Deposit Bonus and a chance to play Spin the Wheel for an additional free bonus of a minimum £15 and a maximum £1,000. This bonus game is absolutely free and players are eligible as soon as they have deposited just £10 into their account.

Play the best of 90 and 75 ball in every form and flavour here. They’ve got them all from penny games, team tourneys, free bingo, daily guaranteed jackpots, progressive jackpots, and of course, a whole lot of special promotional with some stupendous prizes. If Instant play is your preference you’ll be spoilt for choice for those as well.

These are set to include Wink Bingo, Posh Bingo, Tasty Bingo, Red Bus Bingo and Bingo Street. Wink Bingo will be kicking off the first of these millionaire points games on Sunday 27th November at 10pm. Take part in this and you could go down in wink history as their first bingo millionaire – albeit with points and not cash.

We have seen Foxy Bingo run a similar promotion to this in the past, although it was a one off and not on a monthly basis like what joy of bingo have planned.

There is another twist to this millionaire game at Wink Bingo as well, because the one million points will be distributed over their five sites, so the winner will get to try out everything this group has to offer.

300,000 – Wink Bingo
200,000 – Posh Bingo
200,000 – Tasty Bingo
200,000 – Red Bus Bingo
100,000 – Bingo Street

We have been informed though that this split in points is subject to change, so please do not take it as gospel at this time.

Your bingo cards for the millionaire point based game on Wink Bingo have been set at just 10p each to purchase. The game itself will be played on the 75 pattern ball format, where the first player to bingo on the special (J) pattern wins one million points.

If you win this fun game and you do not have accounts with all the above five sites, you will need to open an account with each one of them to claim your points. The joy of bingo group will contact the lucky winner or (winners) as the case may be after the game and credit the one million points accordingly. So if you are taking part in this, please ensure your email address and contact details are up to date at Wink Bingo or you could miss out on a million points jackpot prize (we have seen players lose big cash prizes in the past because they were un- contactable).

Bonus points can never be withdrawn from your account, but wins derived from them can – although the millionaire points would be subject to their usual wagering requirement rules.

One lucky Wink Bingo player will get to retire the old set of tyres in the New Year and drive off in a brand new car. Winning the fourth Win a Mini competition will also give the player a place in a unique Mini club!

Besides, earning free bingo cards into this huge New Year’s Day game can also make this prize a complete freebie if the winner gets bingo on a free card.

This shiny new Mini Cooper 1.6 has manual transmission and it comes with features like alloy wheels, air conditioning, electric windows, remote central locking plus CD and radio.

The car will be made to order for the Wink Bingo winner and the player gets to choose it’s colour, except for the bonnet stripes and leather interior. With a 5 year Mini TLC service package and 12 months road tax thrown in this prize will be an envious win.

The New Year’s Day bingo game will be playing at 8pm on Sunday, 1st January 2012 and players can either pre-buy the maximum 48 cards at £5 each or earn their Mini points for free cards at Wink Bingo.

Players will be getting one free card for every 500 Mini points collected until Monday 19th December by carrying out five different actions.

Spending £1 on their favourite 90-ball or 75-ball games is worth 1 point which also comes on every £20 wagered on instant games. Also, with every bingo on the ‘MiniWink’ pattern players will add 5 points more to their account.

A comment on the Wink Facebook wall about why the player should win the Mini will be rewarded with 50 points and players also get to email a picture of their tired old tyres to Wink Bingo and grab 100 points.

During the Win a Mini competition you will also have to look out for special chances to win wild card entries into this game. The bingo site will be announcing these events in the next few weeks in which players get to grab free cards to play a free bingo game.

The Wink Bingo Win a Mini game will be playing in 75-ball bingo and if the game has more than one winner then they will be entered into a play-off bingo game to decide upon a single winner. This Mini Cooper is guaranteed to be driven off by one lucky winner in the year 2012 so make it your New Year’s resolution. Play at Wink Bingo!

This is the fourth year running Wink Bingo will be giving away a brand new Mini Cooper car. There are already three lucky ladies in their (mini cooper club) – will you be next?

Once again another wink player will get to go on the drive of their life and start the New Year of with a new set of wheels, Mini Cooper Wheels that is!

This fun comp only kicked of yesterday and you have a number of ways to start clocking up those all important mini game points, which convert to free cards for you. Each time you accumulate 500 mini points it will equal 1 free Mini Cooper game card and here is just how you can tot those points up.

Send wink in a picture showing them your old tyres – Get 100 Points instantly!
Post on the wink bingo facebook fan wall telling them why you should win a mini – Get 50 points instantly!
Each time you win bingo on the special mini pattern you will pick up – 5 points
Every £1 wager on 75 ball and 90 ball bingo gives you – 1 Point
Every £20 wager on instant games also gives you – 1 Point

Plus, wink bingo have stated that they will be giving you more chances to win wild cards into the game over the next few weeks. So if you are playing at their site, these will be worth looking out for.

The wink bingo mini cooper game will come out to play on New Years Day at 8pm and you do also have the opportunity of logging onto their site as from now and pre-purchasing your bingo cards – these will cost £5 per ticket.

The mini cooper 1.6 car will come loaded with the following features – Air con, electric windows, remote control locking, cd / radio player, alloy wheels, plus as an added extra a 5 year mini TLC service package and 12 months road tax. Could you ask for more? What a prize!!!!!!

Up for grabs over Halloween weekend on Wink Bingo will be a guaranteed prize pot of £25,000. However this will be one trick or treat bingo game you have not played before because the team at Wink will not be revealing what they will pay out on the one line, two lines or full house until the day it comes out to play.

So whilst we know that £25,000 will be won on the game itself, we do not yet know what each line / full house is worth.

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Game Details – The Halloween joy pot game is set to take place at Wink on Sunday 30th October at 10pm. Now you have two options to get your tickets for it. 1: Simply log onto their site now and purchase them at a cost of £2 each. 2: Try and win some for free by clocking up joy points.

Joy Points can be earned not only at Wink Bingo but at some of their sister sites also, which include – Tasty Bingo, Posh Bingo, Red Bus Bingo and Bingo Street. (Please just ensure that you are using the same email address at all these sites so your joy point credits can be merged).

500 joy pot credits will equal – 1 Free card for the guaranteed £25k Halloween game. These points can be picked up in a number of ways from simply playing bingo / instant games at any of these sites, to bingoing on special patterns or the number 25.

You can only purchase cards at the host site which this time is Wink Bingo. And you must have opened an account with them before 23rd October to be able to participate in this Halloween joy pot. You can accumulate those all important points up until this date also.

For you info, the Halloween chat party will take place at Wink on Saturday 29th October between 8pm and midnight. There will be double JPs up for grabs on all games, + four extra special games have been lined up and of course these will all take on spooky theme.