What image comes to your mind when you think of bingo? A good guess would be old ladies, smoke from cigarettes and dark basements with no windows. However, some bingo halls in North America are reinventing themselves to reach younger generations.
In Canada, major cities like Toronto have nightclubs hosting ‘dirty bingo’, where vulgarity is used to establish ‘flesh fests’ hosted by Shirley, a transvestite. ‘Get lucky bingo’ is another option, mostly favored by punks, who get the chance to win x-rated toys.

A 52-year-old woman from the city of Harlow, England, won the incredible prize of 210.000 euros playing bingo. The lucky lady, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that she felt awarded, since she had been playing bingo for 25 years, but had never won a prize this big so she was thinking in abandoning the game. Her perseverance was awarded big time when she received this huge prize.
The woman hit the jackpot at a Mecca Club located in Terminum Street in the city of Harlow, a very popular place among local gamblers.

The band was wearing black tights over their faces when they entered the Gala Bingo in Brighton, on Sunday night, and threatened staff members with knifes. After taking the money, they fled in a black Mazda.

One of the robbers was wearing a cream zip-up jumper, blue jeans, white trainers and gloves. The second robber was wearing a brown leather jacket, dark trousers, white trainers and light colored gloves.

The Federal Police of Brazil has carried out an operation that ended up with the closure of four bingo rooms that were working with irregularities. The operation is called Vispora Operation and this is its third edition.

In cooperation with this operation, about twenty policemen have participated giving their support to the team that is formed by ten justice officials, so that the bingo rooms that were still working, in spite of the notification they received that said they had to stop their activities, were finally closed.

The Stewartstown Area Senior Center is going to host a kitchenware bingo benefit at Eureka Fire Hall on December 3.

The benefit will start at 12:30 p.m.; and bingo games will start at 2 p.m. Twenty games of bingo are planned, along with some raffles and door prizes. There will be drinks available to purchase.

Tickets are sold at $12 in advance or $15 at the door. All earnings are for the senior center. For information call: 993-3488

Smokers will soon have to step out of restaurants, bars, bingos and any other building of public access. An ordinance that will ban smoking is going to be discussed on Monday at 5 p.m.

Smoking will be banned in amphitheatres, ballparks, hotel lobbies and bingo halls. The ban will also extend outside 10 feet from building entrances.

The project was made a law passed by the Senate and with which the fiscal debts in concept of taxes, bingo sales and tombolas are cancelled for the different clubs of the north of Santa Fe.

The norm passed by the Lower Chamber, cancels the compensation interests and tickets for concept of fiscal debts that the clubs may have: Aero Club Vera from the Vera city, Club Atletico Adelante and Social Club Platense.

Since the smoking ban came into force in Scotland, bingo parlors have been suffering the consequences and more than five bingo clubs have been forced to close due to the dramatic fall in revenues. Most of the remaining ones are struggling to survive in the hope that a solution might be found.

Sir Peter Fry, Chairman of the Bingo Association, believes it is unfair for bingo operators to pay the same VAT as bookmakers and lottery ticket vendors. For that reason, Sir Fry wants a rebate to come from said tax.

The woman scooped the bingo jackpot ten years after her mom won £37,000 at the same club.

Yvonne Farquhar, 44, completed his bingo card in only 44 numbers and won the National Bingo Game at the Empire Club, Tuesday, August 15. She had to share the prize with an Inverness woman who also called “Bingo”.

The woman, a mother of four, said: “We are a very lucky family!”

Bingos Bahia Blanca, an investor group that already operates chance games in Buenos Aires, has bought the first bid sheet for the construction of three hotels with casino, where the key one is the five-star hotel Gran San Juan.

Last week, the company paid the 25,000 pesos that the bid sheet costs, the Governor assured that there are at least another four groups that are calling from all over the country.