More interesting bingo facts

• Bingo is the most popular group leisure activity in the UK and the second most popular individual leisure activity. It is the most popular leisure activity for women between 20 and 25 years old (source: Mintel)
• 4 out of 10 people who play bingo in the UK will play in a Gala Club
• There are over 250,000 cash bingo winners in Gala every week
• 8 out of 10 Gala Bingo players have won once in the last 3 months
• There are three million regular bingo players in the UK
• You are 13 times more likely to win £100,000 on the national bingo game than winning the same prize on a lotto ticket.  Unlike the lotto the national bingo prize must be won on the night
• A CACI survey conducted in October 2003 revealed that 9% of Londoners prefer going to bingo over the health club or yoga
• There are 1.94 million admissions per week (277,000 admissions per day) or around 90 million admissions per year to bingo clubs in Great Britain (source: Bingo Association/Gaming Board)
• The total money staked on bingo now exceeds £1 billion or £1,118 million – excluding Gaming machines (source: Gaming Board)
• Paula Young, a 39-year-old member of Gala Bingo Sheffield, scooped the largest bingo jackpot ever when she won £953,000 on 22 December 2002
• In Great Britain, the bingo industry is estimated to be worth nearly £2 billion
• Membership to a bingo club is free but customers must be over 18 years
• The National Game started in 1986 and, apart from Christmas Day, is played each evening and on Saturday afternoons
• Bingo is the only gambling game permitted by the armed forces
• A two-hour bingo session usually consists of 15-20 separate games.  Players can now buy and play as many tickets as they wish.  The average cost of four bingo tickets for every game in an evening session would be around £15
• The bingo industry employs some 20,000 people in UK. (Gaming Board 2000)
• There are 705 operating bingo clubs in Great Britain with over 150 of these being new builds (source: Gaming Board, March 2000)
• Approximately 20% of all clubs are purpose built with large car parks although the majority occupy good quality, converted cinema premises
• There are 675,000 seats in the UK, set aside for the playing of bingo
• There are 18,000 gaming machines in bingo clubs in Great Britain (source: Gaming Board)
• Around £107.4 million was paid by the bingo industry in Bingo Duty in the year ending 31 March 2001 (source: Gaming Board)
• It was not until April 1997 that the bingo industry was permitted by law to advertise freely

More interesting bingo facts

• Bingo is the most popular group leisure activity in the UK and the second most popular individual leisure activity. It is the most popular leisure activity for women between 20 and 25 years old (source: Mintel)
• 4 out of 10 people who play bingo in the UK will play in a Gala Club
• There are over 250,000 cash bingo winners in Gala every week
• 8 out of 10 Gala Bingo players have won once in the last 3 months
• There are three million regular bingo players in the UK
• You are 13 times more likely to win £100,000 on the national bingo game than winning the same prize on a lotto ticket.  Unlike the lotto the national bingo prize must be won on the night
• A CACI survey conducted in October 2003 revealed that 9% of Londoners prefer going to bingo over the health club or yoga
• There are 1.94 million admissions per week (277,000 admissions per day) or around 90 million admissions per year to bingo clubs in Great Britain (source: Bingo Association/Gaming Board)
• The total money staked on bingo now exceeds £1 billion or £1,118 million – excluding Gaming machines (source: Gaming Board)
• Paula Young, a 39-year-old member of Gala Bingo Sheffield, scooped the largest bingo jackpot ever when she won £953,000 on 22 December 2002
• In Great Britain, the bingo industry is estimated to be worth nearly £2 billion
• Membership to a bingo club is free but customers must be over 18 years
• The National Game started in 1986 and, apart from Christmas Day, is played each evening and on Saturday afternoons
• Bingo is the only gambling game permitted by the armed forces
• A two-hour bingo session usually consists of 15-20 separate games.  Players can now buy and play as many tickets as they wish.  The average cost of four bingo tickets for every game in an evening session would be around £15
• The bingo industry employs some 20,000 people in UK. (Gaming Board 2000)
• There are 705 operating bingo clubs in Great Britain with over 150 of these being new builds (source: Gaming Board, March 2000)
• Approximately 20% of all clubs are purpose built with large car parks although the majority occupy good quality, converted cinema premises
• There are 675,000 seats in the UK, set aside for the playing of bingo
• There are 18,000 gaming machines in bingo clubs in Great Britain (source: Gaming Board)
• Around £107.4 million was paid by the bingo industry in Bingo Duty in the year ending 31 March 2001 (source: Gaming Board)
• It was not until April 1997 that the bingo industry was permitted by law to advertise freely

Fun Bingo Facts

Fun fact about bingo.

• Every year bingo players consume around 10 million hot drinks, 15,000 tons of chips, 130,000 breakfasts and four million pints of lager! 47 miles of jumbo sausage are also sold
• Gala Bingo holds the UK Guinness World Record for the largest bingo game; 4,632 people played bingo at Millwall Football Stadium to break the record on August 3^rd 2000
• Boxer Frank Bruno once worked as a bar cellar man in a London Gala Bingo club
• Players admit to being superstitious – from carrying lucky charms to using ‘lucky’ pens
• Groundbreaking research carried out by Julie Winstone from the University of Southampton between 2000 and 2002 proved once and for all that bingo really does boosts brain power. The study revealed that bingo players performed better than non-bingo players on certain key mental tasks
• The luckiest name for a female bingo player is Margaret
• If you’re a man, you’re more likely to win at bingo if you are called Joe
• Most bingo winners buy holidays with their winnings

The bingo player

Quick bingo facts about the typical bingo player to get started:

• 47% of all Bingo players are under 45 years of age
• 48% of new players are aged between 18 and 34 years of age
• 68% of new members are under 45
• 64% of players are aged 18 – 54 and around a third of all players are under 35 years old although the average age is around 47
• The average age of a bingo club member is 39
• Members who play in the evening and weekends tend to be younger with more men and couples than in the afternoons