Sky are one of the biggest names in the UK - with their massive TV network they have a large presence and are a trusted brand. Well, they also do online games and have an online bingo room! On the Virtue Fusion network along with other big rooms they have a large player base which helps with the big progressive jackpots. Read more below about Sky Bingo or if you want to, click here to check out the site directly as well.

Variety of bingo games

Sky bingo offers 75 ball bingo, 80 ball bingo and 90 ball bingo. Although, as a UK site, it offers more choice for 90 ball bingo, the other games add variety and it is nice that Sky offers all three types of basic bingo games. Also, it has bingo games with a twist, extra aspects added to 'plain' bingo - like Deal or no Deal bingo, and Joker's Jackpot. The site's homepage and bingo lobby has clear graphics and is very easy to use and navigate, so you should be able to quickly find a bingo game that suits you. It offers a range of card prices too, starting at pennies, so you can definitely have lots of bingo fun for very little outlay. The value 90 ball bingo game has 5p cards! The Marine Mayhem multiplayer slots game starts at 1p if you fancy cheap and fun slots in between bingo.

Clicking the 'Play Now' button on the site homepage (once you are signed up and logged in) will get you to the bingo lobby. There you will see various tabs to access various categories of games. The tabs are: all rooms, 90 ball, 80 ball, 75 ball, variety and highlights. The tabs will show you the schedules for that category - the room name, type of game, countdown to the next game starting, prize value (there is a guaranteed prize for all rooms!), ticket cost, number of players in that room at the moment and the maximum number of tickets you are allowed to purchase for each game. Check under each game listing for details of the ticket price and any special offers (e.g. BOGOF) for the next game - I have put some ticket prices in the listing as I found them to give you an idea, but this can vary so do check! Keep an eye out for free bingo games that can appear under different tabs when they run (depending on the type of bingo). There follows a list of the tabs and what was under each of them (it does change as Sky introduce new games and this following list is just a guide) to give you an idea:

• All rooms: This is all the rooms on Sky Bingo, a big long list of them
• 90 ball: 90 Anytime, Value (5p tickets), Pennies (1p tickets), Premium (10p tickets), Deal or no Deal special bingo.
• 80 ball: Bingo 80, Four prize 80 (four prizes per game)
• 75 ball: Bingo 75 (it was showing the pattern name when I checked), Five prize 75 (five prizes per game)
• Variety: Special games, bingo with added extras or slot games. Clover Countdown, Marine Mayhem 1p, Marine Mayhem 2p, Joker Jackpot.
• Highlights: This tab gives info on specials, promotions, jackpots games and when they run etc. It isn't like the other tabs in that there isn't a schedule listing here, but rather highlighted offers.

Jackpot games

Guaranteed jackpots

Daily Bingolinx games

There are three Bingolinx games that run per day for a total of £8,000 in guaranteed prize money - these are 90 ball bingo games and can be found in the 90 ball bingo rooms. The games are played at 12am for a guaranteed £1,500, 6pm for a guaranteed £2500 and 10:30pm for a guaranteed £4,000. Tickets cost 50p for each of these games and there is a maximum of 72 tickets that can be purchased. Pre-buy is available so you don't need to miss out on the chance at these big prizes.

Check the highlights section of the lobby (see above) for any special higher prize games for the Bingolinx that might be scheduled - and you could keep an eye on the Online Bingo News Blog on this site as I will endeavour to publish news of any big games coming up on Sky there too (see the Sky bingo category for instance).

Daily £1,000 games

The £1,000 guaranteed games run every evening at 10pm - and as with the Bingolinx games pre-buy is available. Tickets are only 10p each too, with a maximum of 72 tickets per game. This is 90 ball bingo as well and can be found in the 'Premium' and 'Value' bingo rooms. The £1,000 prize money is split as follows: £100 for the one line win, £200 for the two line win and £700 for the Full House.

Progressive jackpots

There are lots of progressive jackpot games to partake in at Sky Bingo. Below is a list of them and you can see that it is easy to play bingo with a chance of a big win at Sky - and in all bingo formats too although the traditional UK 90 ball bingo dominates.

The details of these progressive jackpots do change now and again so click here to get to Sky Bingo then click on 'Promotions' on the left of the page, then click on 'Sky Bingo Jackpots' at the lower right of the page. That should get you to the progressive jackpots page on Sky Bingo. In particular the number of ball calls to trigger the jackpot game is adjusted now and again so I haven't listed the current numbers.

90 Ball Jackpots

Sky High Progressive Jackpot in the following rooms: Anytime Room, Pennies Room,Value Room, Premium Room, Value 2 Room, Premium 2 Room.

Pennies Jackpot in the following room: Pennies Room.

Premium Jackpot in the following rooms: Premium Room and Premium Room 2.

Value Jackpot in the following rooms: Value Room and Value Room 2.

80 Ball Jackpots

80 Ball Sky High in the following room: Bingo 80.

75 Ball Jackpots

75 Ball Sky High in the following room: Bingo 75.

Side games

Sky Bingo is part of the Sky Brand and so has a sister site - Sky Vegas - which has a very wide range of choice of table games to play. Your Bingo account should work on Sky Vegas too. However, there are some side games available right in the bingo client and from the bingo home page for you to enjoy (between bingo rounds perhaps!) right there.

As mentioned above in the variety tab on the bingo client lobby there is 'Clover Rollover' which is a progressive jackpot slots game. The jackpot for this game (it is a network progressive so the jackpot can get very high) can reach over £1,000,000. Even if won it resets to an impressive £100,000. You need to get five Lucky Shamrock symbols to get the progressive jackpot and have staked the maximum bet (£1) on at least one line. Obviously there are a lot more prizes that payout on this slot so check it out - click here to get to Sky Bingo and sign up if you haven't already to play all these games.

The Marine Mayhem slots games are in the Variety tab too - 1p and 2p games for slots fun at very little outlay. From the bingo home page (rather than the bingo client lobby) there is also Pachinko and CashDrop games.

Bonuses and promotions

Buy One Get One Free Bingo games

Get a free bingo card with each one you buy in the BOGOF promotion. This occurs currently all day Monday in the Value Room and all day Tuesday in the Premium room. Bingo Linx games and the Daily £1000 game are excluded from this promotion.

Deposit bonus

The Sky Bingo welcome bonus is a free £15 when you have played through at least £5. The minimum deposit is also £5 so you can deposit just that and get the free £15, but if you deposit more the welcome bonus is added when you have spent at least £5 on bingo games.

This only applies if you register as a new Sky Bingo customer, and it also applies if you are an existing customer of Sky poker, Sky bet or Sky Vegas but have never played bingo on Sky before and create a Sky Bingo chat name - but you have to play through the £5 within 7 days of creating your chat name to get the bonus. Also the £5 play must be on bingo; side games and instant games do not count.

The £15 bonus money will be added to a bonus account that can only be used for buying bingo tickets, you can't cash it out (or use it for side/instant/mini games). Winnings from those tickets do go into the cash account side though! Bonus money expires in 30 days if you don't buy tickets with it. You can see your bonus account amount in the bingo lobby and bingo rooms, it doesn't show in the 'my account' section on the web site.

Having said all that, it is a great way to play a lot of bingo and try out the site thoroughly - with an extra £15 worth of bingo play for a £5 deposit. Click the banner below to get to the Sky Bingo bonus page.

Free Bingo

At the moment Sky Bingo is offering free bingo games for funded players every day. This started at the beginning of January 2010 and is still current, but may be stopped in the future. There is a dedicated free bingo room (find it in the bingo client lobby, under the highlights tab or one of the other tabs depending on what type of bingo is free - that is 75 ball, 90 ball etc. you might have to click about a bit!) and it opens for free bingo at various times every day so check the schedule.

Winnings from free bingo are credited as bonus funds so the same conditions apply as for the deposit bonus mentioned in previous section above.

Funding etc.

Sky Bingo accepts the following cards: Visa, Mastercard, Visa Debit, Visa Electron, Soli, Laser and Maestro. The minimum deposit is £5