Virgin is a world wide recognized brand and their online games company - Virgin Games - has an excellent high quality Bingo offering. It has a nice variety of bingo games including 80 ball bingo as well as the more usual 90 ball and 75 ball offerings. Regular promotions once you have signed up too so there is lots to keep you interested. Read more below about Virgin Bingo and if you like you can click here to go directly to Virgin bingo (opens in new window). Do note that their 'free bingo' offer is for funded accounts only.

Regular bingo games

The bingo rooms at Virgin have themes, with good graphics in the game window to give a different 'feel' to the rooms. They have different varieties of bingo games which match the themes (sort of) but inside the bingo room the graphics are clear and focused, as they should be, on the bingo play and the chat. Listed below are the 'regular' kinds of bingo rooms with a brief description of their theme. The theme is not that apparent once in the bingo room itself.

The bingo rooms are accessed from the game window, which is the first window that comes up when you click 'play' on the main Lobby page on the Virgin bingo site. Each room will show the time until the next game starts, the ticket price and how many players, and the total prize money on offer for that next game. Each room also has a 'schedule' button so you can see the card prices of the upcoming games in that room and also from the scheduler you can buy your tickets in advance for those games.

Necker Island and Marrakesh bingo rooms (90-ball bingo)

Traditional 90 ball bingo in both these rooms. Necker Island is meant to be a 'tropical paradise' and Marrakesh is meant to be a more lively colourful bustling room.

Galactic bingo room (90-ball speed bingo)

This bingo room is the Virgin Galactic room, 90 ball speed bingo with new games starting every two minutes. High speed, space travel, get it? Anyway, if you want your bingo games to be fast and exciting this could be the room for you.

Ulusaba bingo room (80-ball bingo)

This room is themed as Sir Richard Branson's private game reserve. Offered here is 80 ball bingo - the colourful and fun newcomer (see 80 ball bingo) to the world of bingo.

Miami bingo room (75-ball bingo)

Beach theme set in Miami, Florida, USA for the classic US version of bingo - 75 ball bingo.

Special bingo games

As well as the 'regular' bingo games that you can find in the rooms mentioned above, you can also play some fun bingo variants. Bingo with a twist, as it were. Sign up to Virgin bingo and give them a try!

Deal or no deal bingo game

Plays like regular 90 ball bingo except that the full house winner gets entered into a special deal or no deal game based on the TV quiz game! Others who have played in the game can vote on the winners box choice so it is a nice interactive game.

Joker Jackpot bingo game

This is similar to 75 ball bingo but is played with cards (i.e. playing cards) and has a special pattern (J for joker).

Jackpot games

There are lots of jackpot games to choose from at Virgin. When there is both a progressive jackpot and a guaranteed jackpot on the same game you can't win both jackpots, only one jackpot per game per ticket may be won. If you win the progressive jackpot, you are not eligible for the fixed jackpot (if you think about it you would always get both which is silly!).

Large jackpots are available throughout the day on Virgin bingo, there are hundreds of games to choose from. From the big games daily in Marrakesh and Necker Island rooms (£6,000 worth of guaranteed jackpots daily) to Penny Bingo jackpots on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (so you can spend a little money, have lots of fun and still be in with the chance of a special prize if you are lucky).

Check the schedule next to each bingo room in the bingo lobby (that is the window that pops up when you click 'play' from the main Virgin bingo site, and have a funded account). You can see a list of the games scheduled to play in that room with the minimum prize noted next to it. Clicking on the top of that column will order the minimum prizes so you can check out the big ones and note when they run. Also in the bottom right of the bingo lobby is a section that shows the big progressive jackpots and guaranteed jackpots so you can keep an eye on that too

Side games

Virgin bingo has 3, 5 and 20 reel slots integrated right into the bingo client should you want to play a quick game of slots, or indeed other side games, in-between rounds of bingo (or at the same time as you watch the numbers come out). You can see which games are available in the lobby, from the main Virgin bingo site window or indeed in the bingo game window.

You have to be logged in with a funded account to see the games, but there are dozens and dozens of them to choose from, with many and varied themes. Virgin bingo is part of the Virgin games group so their having a casino games platform obviously helps here in offering Bingo players lots of choice in the side games. There are some big jackpot games too in the side games, including progressives.

Bonuses and promotions

There are regular promotions, cash and prize bonuses and more than run on and off all the time at Virgin Bingo. Every month, throughout the year you will find special offers and the like. If you join Virgin bingo you can sign up for email from them, you can also click here to get to the Virgin bingo promotions page to check them out. In addition Fun Bingo Online has an online bingo news blog (this link opens in a new window) which can also be accessed from the 'blog' tab on the main menu at the top of every page here.

Deposit bonuses

New depositors get a 100% cash back match bonus up to £100 (minimum deposit £10). If you play through your first deposit the bonus gets deposited into your account.

Loyalty scheme

The Virgin bingo loyalty scheme consists of things called V*Points, in fact you get these when playing for real money on all Virgin games not just bingo. These can be exchanged for various Virgin products including Virgin Atlantic Flying Club miles, or Virgin Vouchers or even just trade them in for cash into your account

Free Bingo

Free bingo is available fairly often on Virgin bingo, keep an eye out for the TV adverts which advertise it, or look out for announcements on the Virgin bingo site promotions page (click here to get there). Also free games in general are sometimes announced in the game lobby itself, and run now and again on a one off basis so keep an eye out for those too!

Funding, support etc.

Deposit methods for Virgin bingo include Neteller, Visa, Mastercard and Maestro. Virgin bingo has a 24 hour call centre for support, and aims to process bingo (and side game) cashouts quickly (between 1 and 3 days).