The product, checked against the licence
Which of these brands may actually run a bingo room
A bingo page is the clearest case for reading a licence before a lobby. Four of the twenty-four brands on this site are in perfectly good standing with the Gambling Commission and still may not run a bingo room, because the entitlement on their licence says «Casino (Remote)» and stops there.
- Licence on the public registerGambling Commission, account 39175 ·Jumpman Gaming Limitedlicence 039175-R-319452-025 · read on 7 November 2026 · public register
- Casino
- Bingo
- Sports betting
- Virtual events
- Casinoon the licence
- Bingoon the licence
- Licence holderJumpman Gaming Limited
- ProgrammeSuper Partners
Open Dove BingoOur page on itCommercial link · 18+ · the operator's terms apply · licence read 07.11.2026
- Licence on the public registerGambling Commission, account 39175 ·Jumpman Gaming Limitedlicence 039175-R-319452-025 · read on 7 November 2026 · public register
- Casino
- Bingo
- Sports betting
- Virtual events
- Casinoon the licence
- Bingoon the licence
- Licence holderJumpman Gaming Limited
- ProgrammeSuper Partners
Open Free Spins BingoOur page on itCommercial link · 18+ · the operator's terms apply · licence read 07.11.2026
- Licence on the public registerGambling Commission, account 39175 ·Jumpman Gaming Limitedlicence 039175-R-319452-025 · read on 7 November 2026 · public register
- Casino
- Bingo
- Sports betting
- Virtual events
- Casinoon the licence
- Bingoon the licence
- Licence holderJumpman Gaming Limited
- ProgrammeSuper Partners
Open Daily Record BingoOur page on itCommercial link · 18+ · the operator's terms apply · licence read 07.11.2026
- Licence on the public registerGambling Commission, account 39028 ·888 UK Limitedlicence 039028-R-319297-014 · read on 7 November 2026 · public register
- Casino
- Bingo
- Sports betting
- Virtual events
- Casinoon the licence
- Bingoon the licence
- Licence holder888 UK Limited
- ProgrammeUffiliates
Open 888 CasinoOur page on itCommercial link · 18+ · the operator's terms apply · licence read 07.11.2026
The four brands that may not sell you bingo
Sixteen of the twenty-four brands on this site hold the bingo entitlement on their operating licence, and four do not; the four are in perfectly good standing with the Gambling Commission, they have no enforcement history worth the name, and their licence simply says "Casino (Remote)" and stops, which in Great Britain means they are not permitted to run a bingo room at all.
Three of them belong to one licence holder (account 38620), and the fourth belongs to another. We found this by reading the «register» (a list a public authority keeps and publishes) rather than the lobbies, and it is the reason the bingo page on this site is shorter than the casino page by exactly four names.
A «comparison site» that lists those four beside the bingo halls, as one we read was doing, is putting you in front of a product they cannot sell him; the error is invisible from the outside, because nothing on a brand's own pages announces an entitlement it does not have.
What a British bingo room actually is
Bingo in Great Britain is a licensed product with its own entitlement for a reason that goes back to how the game is paid for. A bingo room is a "pari-mutuel" game (the room collects the money paid for tickets, keeps a declared share and hands the rest back as prizes), which makes it structurally different from a slot, where the operator pays the prize out of its own position.
The practical effect is that the arithmetic is visible. A room selling four hundred tickets at ten pence each with a thirty-pound prize is returning seventy-five per cent of the ticket money, and the share the room keeps is the whole of its margin, which is the clearest economics in a casino «lobby».
A licence that carries both bingo and casino
Dove Bingo
Gambling Commission, account 39175 ·Jumpman Gaming Limited
Open Dove BingoCommercial link · 18+ · the operator's terms apply
The three games the rooms run
Ninety-ball is the British game, played on a six-by-three ticket with fifteen numbers, and it pays three prizes as the room progresses: one line, two lines and the full house. Seventy-five-ball arrived from North America, is played on a five-by-five grid with a free centre square, and pays for patterns rather than lines, which is why the chat in a seventy-five-ball room is full of diagrams.
Slingo is the third and the newest, and it is the one that complicates the licensing picture, because it sits between the two products. The game deals numbers like bingo and pays like a slot, and the operators that offer it tend to hold both entitlements, which on this site is true of seventeen brands out of twenty-four, though one of those seventeen carries the entitlement without a room we could find.
What changed for bingo bonuses in January 2026
The bonus rules that came in on the nineteenth of January 2026 apply to bingo exactly as they apply to slots, and the second of the two changes bites harder here than anywhere else. A «wagering requirement» (the turnover a balance has to reach before it can leave) may no longer exceed ten times the value of the bonus, which was already unusual in bingo, and a single incentive may no longer require play across two different products.
That second rule ends a format the bingo rooms had made their own: the «welcome offer» that handed out bingo tickets and slot spins in one package, with the «wagering» spread across both. An operator may still offer both, and it must now do so as two separate incentives with two separate sets of terms!
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Questions readers ask
Which of the brands on this site can I actually play bingo at?
Sixteen of the twenty-four. Seven of them sit on a licence that carries no bingo entitlement at all, and every card identifies those four by the bingo pill, which reads «not on the licence»; a seventeenth holds the entitlement and runs no room we could find, which the pill reports separately. The three dedicated bingo brands on this site sit under one licence holder whose account carries both the bingo and the casino entitlement.
Is online bingo in Great Britain licensed separately from casino?
Yes. Remote bingo is its own entitlement on an operating licence, with its own start date, and a company can hold the casino entitlement without it. That is the single fact this page exists to communicate, because nothing on an operator's own site makes it visible.
How does a bingo room make its money?
By keeping a declared share of the money paid for tickets and paying the rest out as prizes. It is the most transparent economic model in a casino lobby: a room that sells four hundred tickets at ten pence and pays a thirty-pound full house has kept a quarter of the pot.
Do the new bonus rules apply to bingo tickets as well?
They do. The ten-times ceiling on wagering applies to any incentive, and the ban on mixed-product offers ends the welcome package that combined bingo tickets with casino spins under one set of terms. Operators may still offer both, as two separate incentives.
By the UK Pound Casino editorial team · Last updated November 2026 · Online since 2026
