I wasn’t sure whether I was qualified to write a review of something like Playtech's Loose Women Bingo, I’m not a woman, after all, nor do I know much about the program besides its reputation as a feminist stronghold! Alas, I kept coming across the game being discussed at other bingo sites and forums, so I decided it was about time that I checked the game out for myself. The game list over at Mecca shows this as being an ’88 Ball’ game, but I’m not quite sure what is going on with that – when I looked at the game, it was definitely a 50-Ball game with a typical prize pot of 500x the cost of a single ticket.
Note that this isn’t the first incarnation of Loose Women as a bingo game – Jackpotjoy was the previous sponsor of the show and used to offer their own unique branded game, which is not to be confused with this one. The 2023 release of Loose Women Bingo is currently only available over at Mecca Bingo, but it seems likely that it will also be added to other sites under the Mecca umbrella at some point in the near future. This would certainly be advantageous for players, as more sites would mean more players and, therefore, a faster-growing progressive jackpot. As it stands, the jackpot seeds at £1,000 after each time it is won, and currently stands at £1,472.41.
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If you didn’t know, Loose Women is a popular ITV chat show broadcast every weekday morning on working days. The theme and colour scheme used on the show has been faithfully transferred over to this speed bingo game, but it’s the changes to the actual bingo balls which truly make this game stand out from the crowd. Rather than just use traditional bingo balls with plain old numbers on them, the developers have instead opted to place 50 potential chat topics into their random hat instead.
This means that your bingo ticket – note that it is singular, as you are only allowed to purchase one ticket per round – consists of ten potential chat topics rather than numbers. The calls reflect this – you’ll hear words such as ‘Money’, ‘Parent’, and ‘Advice’ being spoken rather than traditional bingo calls. This works well for a quickfire game of speed bingo, and you can also choose from four different price points for your ticket.
The cheapest buy-in for a round is just 10p, with further tickets available priced at 50p, £1, or £2. You’ll need to purchase the most expensive £2 tickets to have a chance of winning the full jackpot prize – if you are playing on a 50p ticket, you’re share would be reduced accordingly down to just ¼ of what it would otherwise be.
The opening hours for the Loose Women Bingo room have changed a few times in the short weeks since the game first launched, but it’s currently available every day between 8 AM and midnight. As a speed bingo game, each round only takes a minute or two to complete – if you’re stuck waiting for a new round to begin, why not check out our guide to the 50-Ball speed bingo format elsewhere on our site?
Some rounds of Loose Women Bingo offer two prizes – one for hitting five of your ten topics and a second for the full house, but most games just pay a single prize for landing a full house. When I played, the prize pool seemed locked in at £50 regardless of the number of players participating. However, the rules page states this can increase to up to £200 of guaranteed funds during peak hours.
There are two special features included in Loose Women Bingo – one of these is a progressive jackpot, so there is nothing unique there, but the Bingo Bestie Feature is a little more interesting.
Every day between 12PM and 7PM, you can choose to pair up with another player to double your chances of winning. Although the rules page states that this can double your chances of winning, I read elsewhere that the amount you can win is actually a multiple of your ticket price and is capped at just 50x the total amount. If you don’t have a bingo bestie to pair up with, don’t panic – you can also choose to pair with a random player if you wish!
This is a progressive jackpot prize that seeds at £1,000 and currently stands at almost £1,500 today. It’s a 100% community jackpot, though, which means the winning player will only receive the same amount as every other player in the room.
At the time of writing, only 35 people were playing during each round, which equates to each person receiving roughly £40 each if the jackpot hits.
Whilst many 90-Ball games have little to offer regarding unique aspects and features, 50-Ball games tend to be much more interesting. So although the theme of this one doesn’t appeal much to me, I can imagine plenty of fans of the TV show will enjoy checking out the unique aspects of Loose Women Bingo.
Article by Chris Howlett
Chris has over 11 years of experience playing and writing about bingo and online slots.