The national bingo game is the second largest national game in the UK, the national lottery being the largest.
In the UK there are over 3 million people regularly playing bingo at their local hall at least twice a week
It’s estimated that 95% of bingo players have won at least once
The average age of players is 47 and 70% of them are female
Bingo has many celebrity fans including the glamourous Denise van Outen and Jade Jagger
There have been 3 millionaire winners of the national bingo game largely due to the platinum jackpot that is now attached to the game.
Glasgow is claimed to be Britain’s luckiest place to play bingo for the second year running after an incredible 16 national bingo game wins were made in just the one bingo club.
iven the last facinating fact is is no wonder that Bingo’s much more popular Scotland where one in five Scots plays regularly, compared to one in 20 in the south.
Since June 1986 when the National Bingo Game was started the total prize money won is £990,690,321.
The average player spends £15-20 a night (not including any additional winnings spent) which creates a total annual stake of around £1.1bn.
The average speed of a British bingo caller is 23 numbers per minute.
Castle Bingo in Canton, Cardiff, was the first purpose built Bingo Hall in the UK.
There are 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000,000 bingo card combinations
