Bingo Facts

Bingo Interesting Facts

Here are some interesting but little known facts about our favourite game - Bingo.

More than three million people in the UK play bingo regularly, which is 8% of the adult population. This includes 10% of all women and 5% of all men. This accounts for nearly 2 million admissions per week to UK bingo halls.
The average age of a bingo player is 45.
The average player spends between £15 and £20 on an evening's bingo.
Online bingo provides more than 250,000 winners per week with cash prizes.
80% of all bingo players have won a game in the last three months.
Bingo was played by the Romans and was originally patented as Lotto - a game for children - in 1778.
A number of celebrities started off their working lives as bingo callers. Included in this list are Shane Richie, Russell Crowe and Kian from West Life.
Bingo halls became popular in the UK during the 1960's.
There are nearly 700 licensed bingo halls in the UK.
Many celebrities also love bingo, including Catherine Zeta Jones, Sharon Osbourne, Pamela Anderson, Robbie Williams, Denise Van Outen and The Queen, who shouts "Sandringham" instead of "house".
The highest possible prize you could win in the National Game is £2 million.
Twenty thousand people are employed by the bingo industry.
Most people play bingo to have fun and socialise.
The average number of numbers of called in one minute is 23 - just over one every three seconds.
An average game takes between 4 and 4 and a half minutes.
It takes an average of 30 seconds to check a winning claim.
There are over 1.4 million possible combinations of bingo cards.