Casinos and Bingo Sites Go World Cup Crazy
UK casino and bingo sites are having to be quite innovative with their World Cup promotions this time round. Why? Because one of the changes that was made to marketing rules earlier this year was to ban mixed product promotions. That means no rewarding sports betting with free spins and no rewarding slot play with free bets. Some major operators including Coral are keeping it simple and just running sports promotions, but others have found a way to include slots and bingo players by running football themed giveaways or promotions on football themed slot or casino games.
World Cup Promotions
At Paddy Power, there’s a £2 million Prize Giveaway made up of three promotions:
- Paddy’s Wonder Wheel – this free daily game has been enhanced or the duration of the tournament, with extra bonus rounds and guaranteed prize days
- Paddy’s Around The World – play this bonus game once a day. You score points by hitting everything Paddy throws at you, apart from red cards that make you lose a life. Reach the points target without losing all your lives to win a cash reward.
- Paddy’s Worldie Giveaway – this is a weekly prize draw with thousands of prizes ranging from £1 bonus to £500 cash. You collect entries by playing slots and by playing the two free games, but must opt in first.
bet365‘s Football Prize Pot is a weekly promotion which you can join by opting in and playing £10 on the selected slots (many of which are football themed). Each week, 10% of the players who join win a share of a substantial prize pot and other players win free spins. All players who qualify in any of the weeks also go into a prize draw on 21st July with 200,000 free spins to be won. There’s also a bingo promotion which you can find in the bingo lobby; it awards cashback for completing missions.
Betfred have a weekly prize draw for the duration of the tournament with £100,000 to be won in all. After opting in, you get one entry for each £5 you play on slots and in a nice touch, you get double entries if you play the football themed slot Wolf It Up! Again Soccer. The really interesting thing about this promotion is that it’s taking place in Betfred shops as well as online.
At Buzz Bingo there’s a free daily football themed game plus Big Money Goal Rush, a special bingo game to be played on Sunday 26th July. Where does the World Cup come into it? They’re adding £50 to the full house prize (which starts at £5000) for each and every goal scored during the tournament! You can play online (tickets on sale now) or in a Buzz Club (buy on the day).
At Heart Bingo there’s All Winners World Cup Bingo. Play in their exclusive Heart & Soul bingo room during the World Cup and win any game with the AW symbol to collect 6 tickets to the daily and weekly All Winners games (which you must claim by being in the bingo room in the 10 minutes before the game plays).
Many sites including Mecca Bingo, bet365 and all Jumpman sites are running Golden Goal Rewards. This is a Games Global promotion that’s clearly been modelled on Pragmatic Play’s Drops & Wins, with prize drops and a weekly leaderboard. There are some great Games Global titles included but the promotion scores a bit of an own goal by not actually including any football themed slot games.
Unibet have a similar promotion based around Relax Dream Drop slots, with £1000, £2000 or £3000 of random cash drops every day, but in this case one of the 72 included games is football themed – the new release World Class Kick Off Dream Drop. Bingo players are not forgotten – you can complete daily Bingo Matchday Missions to collect bingo vouchers or cash, or play in the main 75 ball room for a chance to win one of the random bingo voucher prize drops.
Progress Play sites including Betsuna have a deposit offer for spins on Big Bass Football Bonanza, and Maxiplay and sister sites also have a fun deposit offer that can be claimed on the day of an England or Scotland match only – you deposit £10 and get £5 slot bonus for each goal the team scores (or nothing, if you used the offer the day England played Ghana or Scotland got thrashed by Brazil).
At Bresbet you can play £30 on slots on any day until 19th July, to collect a free spin on Bigger Piggy Bank Soccer for each goal scored in all that day’s World Cup matches, up to a maximum of 12 free spins.
Jackpotjoy and other Gamesys sites have a daily World Cup themed prize draw for invited players only until 30th June with Box Bonanza bonus games to be won (and double the winners on England matchdays). You can enter by opting in and playing £5 on slots.
Live casino players also have a couple of promotions to enjoy:
Until 27th June, there’s the Playtech Live Football Mystery Bonus. Play their Sports Roulette or Football Roulette game with a bet size of at least £1 for a chance to win Golden Chips in one of the 20 bonus rounds every day.
Evolution have the Football Drops promotion until 19th July, with £500,000 in random prize drops. Play one of the live games from the (long) list for the chance to win a drop of 3x your last real money bet, capped at £5000. And yes, Football Studio and World Cup Roulette are on the list.
Football Themed Slot Games
Where do I even start? There are so many! To be fair, most are repeats or reworkings of already popular games with a football skin on top. How about:
- Big Bass Football Bonanza (Pragmatic Play)
- Cops n Robbers Bigger Big Money Soccer (Inspired)
- Fishin’ Frenzy the Big Match (Blueprint)
- Kong Even Bigger Balls (Blueprint)
- Huff n’ Lots of Goals (Light & Wonder)
- Le Football Fan (Hacksaw)
- Kong it Up! Large Soccer (Inspired)
- Wolf it Up! Again Soccer – Inspired
- Bigger Piggy Bank Soccer – Inspired
For something that’s not such an obvious rehash of a previous game or theme there’s the previously mentioned World Class Kick Off Dream Drop (Relax Gaming) with its hefty progressive jackpots, and the innovative Jewel Boom Super Drop Football Frenzy from Atlantic Digital (Light & Wonder) which is basically a 3 reel 1 line slot.
For a more conventional 5 reel slot try Goal Bonanza (Nailed It! Games) or World Soccer Grand Chance (Inspired), and if you’re looking for something in the vein of 9 Pots of Gold there’s Goal Strike Fan Frenzy (Gameburger).
Other Football Themed Games
There are a few football themed versions of Slingo already; the latest is Slingoooal Shootout.
For instant win games with a football mechanic, try Free Kicker or Penalty Shootout (both Core Gaming). Or for something a bit different with a football theme there’s the Goals To Glory instant win games from Gaming Corps.
Fidget Football is a new live casino game from On Air Entertainment, and there’s even some football crash games in the form of Kick Crash (Buck Stakes Entertainment) and Soccer Striker 2 (Coin Machine Gaming).
Have YOU played one of these football themed games? Let us know what you thought of it using the comments form below!
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