So Bingo

So Bingo is a cool bingo site and seems totally independent at first glance, but it's actually powered by Cassava Enterprises which is the same great technology behind 888 Ladies. Because the website uses the same system as 888 ladies you get a similar bingo experience and plenty of slots and games, but not quite so many players. That can be a good thing if you prefer to play smaller games (with a greater chance of winning) but also can also make for somewhat less atmosphere in the chat rooms. When we signed on to review So Bingo the chat rooms weren't working at all either, which is a shame.

The home page is not as graphically inspiring as some other bingo sites and the predominant colour is in a dull red. Some effort has been made to make it prettier, however, such as an animated flashing .gif and some highlighting. Despite not wowing visually, the website does do the job and everything is included on it which needs to be.

Promotions

With So Bingo you can save money from the second you sign up because just for registering they'll give you 1000 points! That adds up to £1.00 worth of bingo tickets and then they will give you 100% match on your first deposit as long as it is between £20 and £100. Any subsequent deposits will also get you 50% bonus money added to your account. Other on site promotions offer you the chance to win holidays and cruises or specific, covetable prizes such as flat screen tvs. They also have a regular bingo pays the bills competition where they will pay gas, electricity and water for winning players for one month.

Along with these promotions there is also a loyalty scheme where players gain points by referring friends, winning chat room competitions and buying bingo tickets. Obviously, loyalty points can be used to purchase cards so whilst they aren't money in hand, they could help you to win some!

Prices and Prizes

Bingo cards start at 5 pence each (so tickets and strips are available from as little as 30 pence each) and the most you can buy in any game is just 24 cards. A typical jackpot in a bingo game at So Bingo is £33 for 90 ball or £22 as the top jackpot for 75 ball, with two lower increments of £5 (for 1 line) and £7.50 (for 2 lines.) There are also pre-buy games which cost £1 to enter and could win you £1,500, £1000 or £500 (or more) depending on which game you choose to buy in to.

Schedule

The games run 24 hours a day and there is a good mix of more expensive and less expensive games on offer with both the 75 and 90 ball bingo games. The pre-buy games do run to a strict schedule however.

The £1,500 pre-buy game is run on Friday nights at 10pm, whilst the £1000 pre-buy takes place at 10pm on Wednesdays and every Saturday at 9.30 there's the £500 pre-buy. A special £100 jackpot bingo game also takes place every single day at 8.45pm.

Community

Accessing the chat rooms proved difficult for us with So Bingo and if we had accessed them we might have noticed that there are fewer players on So Bingo than there are on some competitor's sites. However, we know that the community is still strong there thanks to the Team Bingo Leader Board promotion.

In this promotion players group together in teams and email the team details to a chat host. They are then logged on to a leader board which totals up how many wins the group has in a month and the team with the most wins gets an additional prize. The first prize is 1,000,000 loyalty points, second prize is 520,000 loyalty points and the third is 200,000.