- Bingo is the most popular group leisure activity in the UK and the second most popular individual leisure activity. It is the most popular leisure activity for women between 20 and 25 years old (source: Mintel)
- 4 out of 10 people who play bingo in the UK will play in a Gala Club
- There are over 250,000 cash bingo winners in Gala every week
- 8 out of 10 Gala Bingo players have won once in the last 3 months
- There are three million regular bingo players in the UK Continue reading ‘More interesting bingo facts’
Fun fact about bingo.
- Every year bingo players consume around 10 million hot drinks, 15,000 tons of chips, 130,000 breakfasts and four million pints of lager! 47 miles of jumbo sausage are also sold
- Gala Bingo holds the UK Guinness World Record for the largest bingo game; 4,632 people played bingo at Millwall Football Stadium to break the record on August 3rd 2000
- Boxer Frank Bruno once worked as a bar cellar man in a London Gala Bingo club
- Players admit to being superstitious – from carrying lucky charms to using ‘lucky’ pens
- Groundbreaking research carried out by Julie Winstone from the University of Southampton between 2000 and 2002 proved once and for all that bingo really does boosts brain power. The study revealed that bingo players performed better than non-bingo players on certain key mental tasks
- The luckiest name for a female bingo player is Margaret
- If you’re a man, you’re more likely to win at bingo if you are called Joe
- Most bingo winners buy holidays with their winnings
Original post by bingouk and software by Elliott Back
Quick bingo facts about the typical bingo player to get started:
- 47% of all Bingo players are under 45 years of age
- 48% of new players are aged between 18 and 34 years of age
- 68% of new members are under 45
- 64% of players are aged 18 – 54 and around a third of all players are under 35 years old although the average age is around 47
- The average age of a bingo club member is 39
- Members who play in the evening and weekends tend to be younger with more men and couples than in the afternoons
Original post by bingouk and software by Elliott Back