Are you bored with endless traditional bingo games with nothing but spherical balls for entertainment? Then you need to try Playtech's excellent Burst Bingo! Who needs balls when we have animals holding numbered balloons, I ask you? Okay, I’ll admit that it does sound a little bit gimmicky, but it’s certainly no sillier than Mystic Meg Bingo, don’t you think? Burst Bingo is also a very quick game, making it perfect for those five-minute bingo breaks in between tasks.
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Burst Bingo is not the first game to try getting rid of the traditional bingo balls, but it could be the strangest attempt I have seen yet! It may seem like a crazy idea to traditional bingo fans – how can you play bingo without balls? – but it actually makes a lot of sense when playing online. The reason for this is that the computer is marking your tickets automatically anyway – getting rid of the numbered calls saves a significant amount of time. The only problem here is that the balloons still include numbers anyway, so it really isn’t any different to a game that uses balls, as far as I’m concerned!
After joining the Burst Bingo room, you’ll need to decide which price point you wish to play at. Tickets are priced between 25p and £3 each, with bigger prizes offered when purchasing the more expensive tickets. As you can only purchase a single ticket for each round, I’d recommend going for the pricier tickets if your bankroll allows it!
Online bingo doesn’t get much simpler than Burst Bingo! This is a 50-Ball game, often referred to as Speed Bingo, meaning each round only lasts around two minutes. As mentioned earlier, each player is only permitted to purchase a single ticket for each game, so it’s very easy to keep an eye on how you are doing throughout each game.
Each round offers just one prize, paid to the first player to hit all ten numbers shown on their ticket. Most rounds of Burst Bingo will result in just one player collecting the entire prize, but it is possible for multiple players to complete their tickets on the same call. When this occurs, the payout is divided equally between the winning players.
Burst Bingo offers several progressive jackpot prizes in addition to the regular prize paid to the first player to complete their ticket. Some sites also schedule feature games at certain times of the week – Mecca Bingo, for example, offers guaranteed prize pools of £75 during all games that take place on the weekend after 9PM.
You’ll need to be really lucky to hit this one! Complete all ten numbers on your ticket within 19 calls or less, and you’ll trigger the community jackpot, which currently stands at more than £12,000. Half of the jackpot is paid to the winning player, with the remaining 50% divided equally among all other players that purchased tickets for the current game.
If you play Burst Bingo at Mecca, five additional progressive jackpots can trigger randomly at any time. The smallest Premiere Bronze jackpot is worth around £10 and usually triggers once or twice per hour. At the other end of the scale, the Premiere Diamond jackpot is guaranteed to be at least £10,000 and usually triggers about once per month.
I’ve been looking for a good 50-Ball game for a while now, and I think I might just have found it! Burst Bingo is colourful, exciting, and extremely fast – I do wish that you could buy more than one ticket for each round, but they pass by so quickly that it really isn’t a major issue.
Article by Chris Howlett
Chris has over 11 years of experience playing and writing about bingo and online slots.