Paddy Power Dumps Playtech Bingo

What’s happened to the bingo at Paddy Power?

Paddy Power Bingo has run on the Playtech (formerly Virtue Fusion) bingo platform for more than 15 years, but today (9th November 2026) it moved to the tombola bingo platform, a fantastic if idiosyncratic piece of bingo software that was previously only available at tombola itself (where it has delighted hundreds of thousands of players over the years).

This move has been 5 years in the making, ever since tombola was bought by Flutter (Paddy Power’s parent organisation) in November 2021, and it’s part of the realisation of Flutter’s long term plan, coming shortly after the replacement of the poker software at Betfair and Paddy Power with the Pokerstars product (which Flutter also bought a few years ago)

For players used to Playtech bingo, it’s a fairly radical change.

What is the new bingo software like?

You can still play 75 ball bingo (pattern and 5 line), 90 ball bingo and Deal Or No Deal Bingo, in slightly different versions.  There will also still be daily free bingo, exclusive bingo promotions and hosted chat in all of the bingo rooms. Pretty well everything else is very different!

• It’s goodbye to Playtech specials like Cash Cubes and Clover Rollover Bingo and hello to tombola specials.  The new bingo games you can sample include Super 7 Bingo, Monopoly, Jigsaw and Bloom. All of these tombola specials are designed to work well on a mobile phone screen.
• Most of the bingo rooms have no pre-buy – you buy tickets for the next game in the window before it starts.  You’ll be able to pre-buy for certain big money games.
• There’s no bingo welcome offer, just a spins offer
• If you’re already familar with tombola – it’s not a straightforward reproduction of the original site.  The lobby behaves differently, there are several exclusive Paddy Power bingo rooms (all 90 ball) and only some of the tombola specials have made it across.
• You can still play slots in this part of the site, but not while inside a bingo room.  The Eyecon slots that were previously available still are, and they’ve been joined by some tombola slot games.
• The lobby is a bit confusing at the moment because of all of the different bingo 90 clubs.  For now at least, it’s easier to find bingo games you like via the Home tab in the bingo area of the site.

To help players get used to how it all works, Paddy Power have come up with a great interactive bingo card graphic.  Daub an item to pop up an info screen and learn more.

What about Flutter’s other bingo brands?

It’s planned for Sky Bingo to do the same migration tomorrow (10th November) and we expect Betfair to follow soon afterwards.

Our Verdict

The tombola bingo product is great and has masses of liquidity, but I would have thought it very likely that almost all of Paddy Power’s bingo players already have an account at the original tombola site.  The exclusive bingo rooms and promotions and the 6 hours of free bingo a day are going to be key in keeping players interested.  Sky Bingo will have a similar issue and again, Sky only bingo rooms and promotions are going to be very important.

Where To Play

You will soon be able to sample the tombola powered bingo product at any of Flutter’s three other bingo sites.  If you decide you prefer the Playtech bingo product, there’s plenty of other Playtech bingo sites to look at instead.

Sue Dawson

Creating iGaming content since 2013 - bingo and slots specialist

Sue Dawson has been writing about (and playing) online bingo and slots since 2013, putting her unique spin on everything.  She has…

Sue Dawson has been writing about (and playing) online bingo and slots since 2013, putting her unique spin on everything.  She has written pieces for iGaming industry news sites, appeared on and moderated panels at industry events and on podcasts, helped to judge industry awards and is a member of iGB Executive, a high level industry think tank.  In her spare time she enjoys gaming, hiking, dancing, watching motorsport and reading science fiction.

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