Mecca is one of the few online sites that offer actual real life bingo on the high street with hundreds of bingo halls around the country. They’ve been around since way before BI times (Before Internet) and this experience has been transferred from the halls of York and London to the homes of everyone around the country.

If you are new to bingo, or have been an avid player at Mecca clubs but haven’t dared to venture online to give you your bingo fix at 3am, then Mecca have a special room just for you. For those who just want to dabble their feet before jumping in, there is a Newbie Free Bingo Room where you can play bingo online games for free with £25 of free cash up for grabs every day. The room is reserved for new players so is a great place to find your feet before venturing in to the big wide world of Mecca.

That isn’t to say that Mecca will just leave you to fend for yourself when you enter the money rooms. In the Player’s Choice Awards 2010, the site won the ‘Best Chat Team Award’. Quite why an award for 2010 was given out at the end of January is anyone’s guess but that’s a debate for a different day. The chat moderators make people feel immediately at home and make even the dullest bingo game a raucous laugh.

Mecca do offer different bingo to the stuff on offer in the halls as they have 90 ball as well as variants of the classic game with less balls. As well as this, they offer variants on the 90 ball game itself with Deal Or No Deal bingo which is an ordinary 90 ball game with a twist. Each ball called has a corresponding box which is the eliminated from the prize board. Once there is a Full House winner, the banker calls up and makes an offer for the remaining box. Fellow players have a chance to vote to aid the winner but he/she must ultimately decide whether to deal or no deal.

One thing that is mirrored from the halls to the site is the bingo linx. All the excitement of sitting in a York hall and playing a huge game with players from Hull, Leeds and Sheffield is transcended to online bingo as players from different rooms join together for a massive jackpot. Sadly you don’t get to hear a different accent for every winner as you do in the hall but the big money is still there.

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