Lucky Cow Bingo

About Lucky Cow Bingo

Lucky Cow Bingo is one of the older Jumpman Gaming sites, having been launched back when Jumpman’s main emphasis was on bingo rather than slots as it is today.

The theming of the site has always been, well, cows, and when it originally launched it was fronted by a cute cartoon cow. When that had to be removed because of advertising rules getting more strict, the site went through an incredibly cheap looking period when it was fronted by a person dressed as a cow. These days, the theming is all but gone – there’s some stylised background illustrations of cows grazing in a field that is inexplicably purple, and you’ll only really notice them if you’re browsing games on a wide screen rather than on a phone.

Bingo at Lucky Cow Bingo

At a site like Lucky Cow Bingo where the welcome offer focuses so firmly on slots not bingo, you might expect the bingo to be pretty rudimentary.  But actually, you’d be wrong; these days the bingo rooms at Jumpman sites are powered by Pragmatic Play, whose bingo product is one of the industry leaders.

You get a great choice of different types of bingo with 90 ball, 75 ball, 80 ball and 30 ball bingo all available, along with the Pragmatic Play specials Animingo (a form of 50 ball bingo), Bingo Blast (a super fast 90 ball bingo game) and Diamond Dazzle (a 90 ball game that’s basically Deal or No Deal Bingo without the branding).

Because the Pragmatic Play bingo rooms are so widely networked across so many other sites beyond the Jumpman network, there’s some decent prize money on offer, especially in the jackpot games that run daily and weekly.  The Pragmatic Play network often also has special bingo rooms open as part of seasonal promotions.

You can quick buy tickets for upcoming games from the lobby (the Pragmatic Play bingo lobby, not the main Jumpman lobby) or go into a bingo room to buy.  You can also prebuy tickets for most bingo games up to a month in advance which is very handy if you’re going to be away and don’t want to miss a big game.

There’s two ways, however, in which the bingo really is just a sideshow – there’s no bingo bonuses and no chat at all (it’s been disabled).

Slot Games at Lucky Cow Bingo

There’s a massive selection of slot games at Lucky Cow Bingo, with a huge range of titles from Eyecon, NetEnt, Games Global, Yggdrasil, Playtech and many others. New games are added every few days and Jumpman continue to beef up the back catalogue offering by finding still more providers to work with.  All of these games are served up in a mobile friendly lobby which groups the games together by theme, game mechanics, popularity, freshness and whether they are included in a current promotion.  For example:

• If you enjoy Megaways games you can look in the Megaways section to find games you haven’t yet tried
• Head to the Drops & Wins section to find that games that are currently included in Pragmatic Play’s long running promotion of the same name
• Look in UK Classics to find ultra popular games like Fishin’ Frenzy, Rainbow Riches, 9 Pots of Gold and Book of Dead
• Slingo fans can sample more than 60 variations of this slots-bingo hybrid game
• If you like a bit of Ancient Egyptian theming, Tales of Egypt brings together more than 150 games along those lines

Jackpot slots have an entire lobby area of their own, but most of the 60 or so games in there are by just one provider – Eyecon – and the jackpot sizes (which you can’t see in the lobby) are not very impressive. If you’e looking for jackpots on the scale of Jackpot King or Dream Drop, you won’t find them here.

If you want to dig a bit deeper into the games library, you need to use the search box as there’s no way to view all of the games at once.  It’s quite basic; you can only search on game name (not provider or theme) and there’s no filtering.  One nice touch is that you’ll see partial matches as well as exact matches in the search results, so if you can’t quite remember the name of the game you want or spell it wrong, you’ll still be able to find it.

Once you’ve found a game you like, if you actually load it up and play some real money spins on it you’ll see it at the top of the lobby (with any other recently played games) on future logins.  This is nearly but not quite as good as being able to add games to your favourites by tapping the game tile.

If you want to find out more about a game before playing it (e.g. provider, features, return to player) you also need to load it up as none of that information is visible in the lobby.

If you want a change from slots, you can find a small selection of arcade games (Plinko, Lucky Tap, mines, crash) and a few live casino games including a couple of game shows showcased in the Popular lobby tab.  There are also lobby tabs for Casino and Live, each of which has a selection of roulette and blackjack games. Many more live casino games and instant win games including scratchcards can be found by using the search box.

Other Things To Consider

Lucky Cow Bingo has an offers page where you’ll find Jumpman network prize draws and slot tournaments run in conjunction with games providers.  There’s also the free Daily Wheel which can award slot spins, and at the time of writing just one redeposit offer, an enhanced version of the Mega Wheel which is valid for any deposit of £100 or more.  Other offers may be delivered from time to time via your account Inbox.

You can use any of a range of deposit methods to claim the welcome offer at Lucky Cow Bingo and there’s no fees unless you are using mobile phoning billing to pay.  You will, however, have to pay a fee when you come to withdraw; it’s a flat fee so if you like to withdraw little and often this may not be the site for you.

Customer service at Jumpman sites is quite frankly slow, unless you are filling in the contact form during weekday office hours in which case they may get back to you right away in a chat window.  Otherwise, you could be waiting up to 2 business days for a response via email; if your query is something that needs any back and forth it could take a long time to be resolved.

Final Thoughts

Lucky Cow Bingo is much better suited to the type of player who likes to play slot and casino games on their phone with just a bit of bingo on the side from time to time, than to diehard bingo players.  If that’s you, you may very well want to give this site a try, especially now the wagering requirements have been reduced to just 10x bonus.