Pick Me Up! Bingo

About Pick Me Up! Bingo

It’s always reassuring for players to know that the bingo site they are playing at is associated with a household name and in this case it’s Pick Me Up! magazine, a rather racy real-life gossip magazine that was launched in 2005.  Even if you’ve never read the magazine, you’ll have seen it in newsagents and at supermarket checkouts with its front cover headlines that are basically like a print version of the Jeremy Kyle show.  Pick Me Up! is not quite as popular as it once was and is no longer published weekly, but thousands of readers still enjoy the Pick Me Up! monthly specials.  Future plc, the publishers of the magazine, also have a number of other Dragonfish bingo sites associated with other magazines they publish.

Bingo Games

Pick Me Up Bingo has a decent range of bingo rooms.

• The Live Bingo lobby area has the “Linked and Loaded” regular 75 and 90 ball rooms and the 90 ball “inverted prizes” room Flip It, which are widely networked with other Dragonfish sites.  There’s three other rooms, one 90 and two 75 ball, which are not so widely networked; they can be just a bit too quite at off peak times.
• The Special Jackpots area has the widely networked 52 ball bingo game Suit Up plus the equally widely networked Mystery Jackpot (a room where the prize can be anything from £10 to £500 and is only revealed after ticket sales have closed).
• The Exclusive area contains a daily sliding jackpot 90 ball game that is exclusive to Pick Me Up Bingo and other sites on the United bingo network.
• Pick Me Up Bingo also has 3 free bingo rooms (all running games periodically rather than continuously).  Two of them are sliding jackpot games open to all players and the other one requires a recent deposit.

All of these rooms also appear in the Main lobby area along with any seasonal specials Dragonfish are currently running.

Prebuy is available up to a week in advance and you can get to the prebuy screen from the lobby, from any bingo room tile or from inside a bingo room.

Other Games

The slots part of the lobby has areas for progressive jackpots (all of which are by Eyecon) and for Slingo and other instant games as well as for new and trending games and for any seasonal specials and this makes it much easier to find games that you might like than it is at many other Dragonfish sites. Of course, you can also search directly for games you know the name of and you’ll also occasionally get a pop-up suggesting a specific game.  It’s also easy to spot games that can’t be played with bonus – they are marked “real money only” in the lobby.

A few of the slot games are exclusive to Dragonfish sites and other Broadway Gaming owned brands.

Despite having lobby areas for both “new games” and “top new games”, Dragonfish aren’t great at adding new releases.  Their own exclusive titles and new games from Games Global do get added in a timely manner, but you could be waiting for months after everyone else for games from other providers.

If you want a change from slots, the previously mentioned Slingo and instant win titles are your only option; like all Dragonfish sites, Pick Me Up Bingo doesn’t have any live casino or table games.

Other Things To Consider

The player rewards system at Pick Me Up Bingo is based on trophy collection.  Different trophies fill the prize wheel meter at a different rate, and most of them can be collected daily or weekly via slots play  When the meter is full, you get a spin of the prize wheel for the chance to win slot spins, bonus or loyalty coins.  Again, this is generally more entertaining and engaging than what’s on offer elsewhere.

Mobile play can be done via the Pick Me Up! Bingo app or by visiting the website using your phone’s web browser.  Either way, the clutter free lobby works very well on a mobile device.

Banking is a slightly weak area; the range of payment methods at Dragonfish sites is limited to debit cards are Paypal, and withdrawals are on the slow side.

Final Thoughts

Pick Me Up Bingo is a great addition to Future’s stable of Dragonfish brands, especially with the new prebuy facility and the recently added exclusive slot games.