Mobile Bingo

First came traditional bingo clubs, then came the revolutionary online bingo. Now bingo fanatics can play bingo wherever they are using mobile bingo!

Mobile bingo is fast becoming a big growth market as many bingo operators, such as Mecca Bingo, are tackling decreased revenues following the smoking ban.

Played through mobile phones, mobile bingo allows UK players to play bingo wherever they are. At present it is only available as a non-cash single player game as mobile phones provide many difficulties. Mobile bingo software must be downloaded, then players can buy tickets. The phone’s display will show the ticket closest to a bingo win. I.e. the one with the highest number of matching calls.

At present most platforms only offer a single player game as development of multi-player cash games is limited due to the mobile platform. Mobile phones do not provide a constant connection. This means that players will lose progress when phone signal is lost. This would provide many problems in cash games as players could potentially lose money if they lose signal for even a small amount of time. Other potential drawbacks for mobile bingo, keeping its popularity very distant form that of online bingo, include screen sizes, operating systems and the available data transfer methods.

Single player mobile bingo already comes in different variations. Players can play traditional 90 Ball Bingo or variations such as Skill Ball Bingo, a casino-style game based around Bingo, and Full House Bingo, a thrilling story-based game.

Skill Ball Bingo for your mobile is based upon the pub-quiz game of the same name. Choose your difficulty level, and then wait for the balls to start arriving. If the ball is on your card, you accept it, but if it's not, you reject it. The quicker you do this, the quicker the next ball arrives, with the aim of clearing your card as quickly as possible. Bonus balls also come up which can both help and harm your scores!

Full House Bingo features a story mode where you can play six bingo pros in 6 of the best bingo halls in the country on your mobile and a classic mode based around traditional 90 Ball Bingo. Other additions to the game include fun power tricks such as charming your challenger, lucky clovers and slow balls as well as random sudden events like follow the joker and double rewards.

Mecca Bingo is one of the first sites to offer multiplayer mobile bingo. Members of Mecca Bingo’s online site can log in using their existing details to play 24 hours a day. The new mobile product from Mecca offers members a whole range of fantastic features including new bingo games starting every 2 minutes, live moderated chat, hourly rollover jackpots paying out over £6,000 and regular quiz sessions with great prizes. This is one of the only products to come close to providing everything that online bingo does on your mobile. Recent prizes given away on Mecca’s mobile bingo have included Nintendo Wii consoles and huge cash prizes!

We think mobile bingo is set to become a huge phenomenon, as a there are a huge number of mobile phone owners and plenty of people in the UK play bingo. Expect many operators to follow Mecca Bingo's lead, coming to a mobile near you soon!