Wonderland Lucky Ball, a New Live Bingo Game

Online bingo is enjoying a bit of a renaissance in 2026, not just in the form of new bingo sites like Zingo Bingo and Queen’s Bingo, but in the form of other bingo style games whether they be video bingo (Play N Go’s Tome Of Madness Bingo) or live casino game shows (Pragmatic Play’s The Bingo Spot).  Now Playtech (who certainly know a thing or two about bingo) have released their take on live bingo, Wonderland Lucky Ball.

What is Wonderland Lucky Ball?

Wonderland Lucky Ball is a bingo style game with 60 numbers, but it’s completely unlike other 60 ball bingo games (where you would play with five differently sized cards):

• It’s played on 4×4 cards, which you’d normally associate with 80 ball bingo.
• There are no restrictions on number placement on the cards – any number can appear in any column.
• 20 balls are released in the course of the game.

In each round, you can place chips on up to 8 bingo cards and/or up to 3 bonus rounds:

• 2 Wonderspins
• 5 Wonderspins
• 4 Walterspins

All of these bonus rounds are spin the wheel affairs based on the Adventures In Wonderland game show.

If you place a chip on everything at the minimum chip value, your stake per round will be a modest £1.10.

Wonderland Lucky Ball very much delivers an enhanced live casino game show experience. The balls are drawn live from a lottery style machine and there’s a talkative host and some very jaunty background music to entertain you, plus lots of CGI overlay with the Walter the Caterpillar character co-hosting and the Cheshire Cat and White Rabbit also making appearances. Unfortunately I can’t show you a screenshot of the characters because of advertising rules.

How To Play Wonderland Lucky Ball

You can find Wonderland Lucky Ball in the Live Casino or Game Show part of the lobby.

Join the game and at first you’ll find yourself watching a round; you need to wait for it to finish before you can place bets on the next round.  You only have 10 seconds to do this in, but it’s been made very easy.

Simply choose the chip size (or stick with the default 10p) and either swipe across to place chips on your desired selections on hit Bet All to place a chip on everything.  There’s also a Rebet button to make it easy to repeat your last bet; once you’ve placed chips this is replaced with an x2 button allowing you to double your stake. Oh, and an Undo button in case you make a mistake.

Before the game starts, it’s time to add some modifers.

• First, the Cheshire Cat populates each bonus round card with Lucky Numbers (3 for 2 Wonderspins and 4 for each of the other two bonus rounds). These numbers also turn yellow on the bingo cards. For each of the Wonderspins bonus rounds (but not the Walterspins bonus round), the Cheshire Cat may also add an extra ball which daubs a lucky number on the bonus round only.
• Then, Walter the caterpillar blows out the Bubble Boost – a cloud of smoke containing multipliers,  which are added to one or more of the cards and occasionally bonus rounds. The possible multipliers are 2x, 3x and 5x for the cards and 2x, 3x, 5x or 8x for the bonus rounds.

The game can now start.  20 balls are drawn from the machine one at a time and auto daubed on your bingo cards and on the bonus rounds.  Should a bonus round (or rounds) be triggered it plays immediately after the 20 balls are drawn.

All bonus rounds are played by spinning a segmented wheel. The segments have symbols with multipliers on, apart from one segment which adds an extra spin and increments the multiplier by one on all other segments.

During the bonus rounds, before each spin one of the symbols appears in the middle of the wheel and adds 1, 2, 5, 8 or 10 to the multiplier on all segments with the matching symbol (unless it’s the extra spin symbol, which adds an extra spin).

So what’s the difference between Walterspins and Wonderspins?  They use the same wheel, but during the Walterspins Walter blows out three Bubble Boost bubbles, each containing a multiplier of 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x or 10x.  After the spins have played, you choose one of the bubbles (if you don’t choose in time, one is popped at random). That multiplier will be applied to everything you won in the wheel spins, so if you won 20x stake in the Walterspins and picked the 3x multiplier, you win 60x stake from the bonus round.

Back to the main game. You win for all horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines completed on your bingo cards, which sounds simple, but there’s lots of multipliers to make it interesting.  There’s the multipliers from the Bubble Boost, which apply to any lines completed on the card they are attached to, but that’s not all – the yellow Lucky Numbers on your cards also apply multipliers if they are part of a completed line. The more Lucky Numbers on your line, the higher the multiplier.

With all these multipliers, if lots of Lucky Numbers are called you can easily win as much in the main game as in one of the bonus rounds.

Wonderland Lucky Ball has slightly different Return To Player for the main game and for each of the three bonus rounds:

• Main game 96.14%
• 2 Wonderspins 96.03%
• 5 Wonderspins 96%
• 4 Walterspins 96.07%

These are all very much better than you’d get from multiplayer bingo.

Wonderland Lucky Ball – Our Verdict

I really liked Wonderland Lucky Ball.  The player interface was easy to use and I thought the pacing was just right in the main game, with just enough time between to calls to see where you’ve got 1TG and which numbers you want. 8 cards was also just about the right number to keep track of.  The multipliers in the main game meant that there was plenty of excitement there, not just in the bonus rounds.  I also enjoyed the visuals, the live host, the music and the whole atmosphere of the game. Top marks for entertainment value!

Where To Play Wonderland Lucky Ball

You’ll find Wonderland Lucky Ball at most online casinos that have live casino games by Playtech.

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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