Mecca Bingo

About Mecca Bingo

You can’t get much more of a household name as far as bingo is concerned than Mecca Bingo, with its 60+ year history of running bricks and mortar bingo halls. Mecca Clubs remain very much part of the Mecca Bingo product and there’s a page on the Mecca website where you can find your nearest club, learn what promotions they have on, download the club app and even check out the food menu. Another page is devoted to special events at Mecca clubs with DJs, comedians and drag shows to accompany the bingo.

The online version of Rank’s iconic bingo brand is every bit as special. There’s exclusive bingo rooms, a fantastic range of games and promotions and lovely chat hosts, with the focus very much on community and entertainment.

Bingo At Mecca Bingo

You’ll find plenty of Playtech bingo variants in the lobby at Mecca Bingo:

• Bouncy Balls Bingo
• Cash Cubes
• Clover Rollover Bingo
• Deal or No Deal Bingo (75 and 90)
• Age of the Gods Bingo
• Spirit Twister

and there’s also network 90 ball, 75 ball and speed bingo rooms plus daily, weekly and monthly jackpot games.

Also in the lobby are some specials that are unique to Mecca Bingo and (in some cases) Rank’s two other Playtech bingo sites Kitty Bingo and Lucky Pants Bingo:

• Emoji Bingo (50 ball multi stake)
• Burst Bingo (50 ball multi stake)
• X-Factor Bingo (90 ball with an extra feature game)
• Loose Women Bingo (90 ball with an extra feature jackpot)
• Best Odds Bingo aka BOB (maximum of 25 players allowed per game to improve the chance of winning)

The exclusive bingo content doesn’t stop there though. There’s 5 lots of session bingo every day priced from £2.50, and there’s several Rank exclusive 75 and 90 ball rooms alongside the Playtech network rooms. The exclusive rooms are generally lively, with hosted chat, frequent chat games, lots of features such as Roll On, Everyone Wins, 1TG/2TG etc and some pretty worthwhile prizes including Mecca Premiere Jackpots ( a suite of 5 jackpots, three of which drop daily and two of which drop monthly) and regular Meccalinks games.

The bingo lobby has a number of different tabs so it’s easy to find the type of game you like and in a nice touch, Mecca add ribbons for rooms with promotions coming up so you don’t have to keep checking the promotions page to find out what is going on. As at all Virtue Fusion sites, tickets can be bought up to a week in advance so you can play any bingo game you like even if you can’t be online.

The latest development at Mecca Bingo is that some of their exclusive online bingo games are also playable in a Mecca club via a Mecca Max electronic tablet (but note that there’s no prebuy for these in club, only online).

Other Games at Mecca Bingo

One thing that is not immediately obvious when you login but which sets Mecca Bingo apart from most other Playtech/Virtue Fusion bingo sites is that the site management software – the back end – is Rank’s own proprietary platform rather than being supplied by Playtech. This enables Mecca to offer a slot game selection that is much bigger and better than at other sites. Here’s just some of what’s on offer:

• Playtech casino slots including many Fire Blaze titles
• Double Bubble and a couple of its sequels
• All the usual Virtue Fusion slots including Clover Rollover, Big Top Tombola, Cleopatra’s Chest, Bouncy Balls etc
• Book of Dead, Reactoonz, Viking Runecraft Apocalypse and other PlayNGo classics
• NetEnt slots including Starburst, Butterfly Staxx, Jumanji and Reel Rush
• Thunderstruck, Immortal Romance, Agent Jane Blonde and other Microgaming classics
• Bonanza, Bonanza Falls, Extra Chilli and more from Big Time Gaming
• Light & Wonder classics such as Zeus, Raging Rhino and Spartacus Gladiator of Rome
• All the Big Bass slots you could possibly ever want
• More than a dozen Rainbow Riches slots
• Lots of Fluffy games including a Mecca branded version
• Online versions of games that are popular in Mecca clubs including Book of Ra Deluxe, Action Bank and Thai Flower
• A host of other titles – such as the Nitropolis series by ELK – that you wouldn’t normally expect to find alongside Playtech bingo

Progressive jackpots have their own lobby area and very impressive it is too, especially when you realise that there are other progressive jackpot games that aren’t even in there but can be found with a quick search. The lineup includes:

• Red Tiger daily jackpots, with an additional Super Pot
• Blueprint’s Jackpot King (networked with other Rank sites) and Rapid Fire jackpots
• IGT Megajackpots
• Games Global’s Wowpot, Mega Moolah and King Millions
• Eyecon super and mega jackpots
• Age of the Gods, Gladiator and Jackpot Giant by Playtech

Going beyond slots, there’s around 45 Slingo games in their own lobby area. There’s also a small area for Mecca exclusive scratchcards, which are mostly themed around Mecca’s sponsorship of the Loose Women TV show.

Mecca Bingo does have some casino games including more than 40 traditional and novelty versions of roulette (some RNG and some live dealer) but these are not given much prominence in the lobby (they are easy enough to find using the search box). Instead, there’s a lobby area for game shows powered by Evolution (e.g. Mega Ball, Crazy Time), Playtech (e.g. Buffalo Blitz Live, Adventures Beyond Wonderland) and Pragmatic Play (Sweet Bonanza Candyland).

Other Things To Consider

Mecca Bingo runs so many promotions that they have felt it necessary to put tabbing on the Promos page so you can sort them into bingo, slots and club.

There’s a number of exclusive bingo promotions but most of them are regular rather than one offs. Occasionally, though, they run amazing promotions with money-can’t-buy prizes such as celebrity makeovers, live player participation on Mecca TV and tickets to Mecca exclusive events.  Slot promotions include network events (such as Drops & Wins and Jackpot Splash) run by game providers, as well as Rank exclusive prize draws.  Club promotions include BOGOFs and guaranteed prize pools.

Mecca’s mobile bingo product is a past winner at the prestigious EGR Operator Awards and it’s easy to see why – they were one of the first online bingo sites to go fully responsive meaning that you get a full rather than a cut down service when you visit the site from a mobile phone browser. For added useability and security they also have a mobile app, which is available for Apple and Android and includes fingerprint recognition so there’s no need to remember a password.

From time to time Mecca Bingo raises very substantial sums for the Carers Trust charity via the Rank Cares initiative; this has been running since 2014 and the Rank Group as a whole (which includes Mecca bingo halls and the online and offline versions of Grosvenor casinos as well as the Mecca Bingo site) has raised more than £3.7 million for this worthy cause. Even when not running a big fundraising initiative they continue to raise money via regular Carers Charity bingo games.

Mecca Bingo has also won multiple bingo industry awards for customer service and wwas selected by a panel of expert judges to win the award for social responsibility at various bingo industry awards. These days, support is delivered via a very comprehensive FAQ backed up by live chat, which is available during the day and evening.

Final Thoughts

All in all, Mecca Bingo offers one of the very best combinations of bingo and slots on the UK market, all parcelled up with a strong community and a great reputation. No wonder they are so popular with players!

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