Vampire Bingo

About Vampire Bingo

Vampire Bingo is a name you may have heard before; it belonged to a Cozy Games bingo site that was in operation between 2012 and 2019.  Along with all other such sites, it closed after Entain (or GVC as they were then called) bought Cozy Games and repurposed the bingo product to power their own brands only.

The new version of Vampire Bingo has absolutely nothing in common with the original apart from the name; there’s a completely different organisation behind it, with lots of experience of running UK slots and bingo sites over the last few years, including Queen’s Bingo and Chit Chat Bingo.  They chose the Progress Play platform and the industry leading Playtech bingo product for the new Vampire Bingo.

The original version of Vampire Bingo went to town on the theming with cartoon vampires, spiders and bats whereas the theming at the new Vampire Bingo is rather understated (apart from on the bingo promotions page, which is a must see) ; this is a good thing as it doesn’t get in the way when you’re playing on a small screen.

Getting Started At Vampire Bingo

It’s quick and easy to get your account up and running at Vampire Bingo but there are a couple of things to be aware of:

• SMS validation (where they text a code to your phone which you have to enter on a form) is part of the process, so you need to have your phone powered up and handy
• Progress Play place a limit of 5 on the number of welcome offers you can claim across their network, and it’s not clear whether this includes bingo offers. So if you’ve played at other Progress Play sites in the past, you may find you aren’t eligible.

Bingo at Vampire Bingo

Once you’ve registered and logged in you will find that the range of bingo rooms at Vampire Bingo is not quite the same as you see on the publicly viewable bingo page (the main difference is that there’s no Rainbow Riches Bingo as this particular Playtech bingo game has been discontinued). The line-up includes:

• Regular, speed and penny 90 ball bingo rooms
• Two 75 ball bingo rooms, one for 5 line and one for pattern bingo
• An 80 ball bingo room
• The perennially popular Deal Or No Deal Bingo in 90 ball and 75 ball versions
• Fluffy Favourites Bingo, a 90 ball game with an occasional feature round based on the iconic slot game
• Clover Rollover Bingo, a 50 ball game where everyone has just one ticket and you choose from four different stake levels.
• Bouncy Balls Bingo, a 60 ball game where everyone has one set of 5 tickets of different sizes and you choose from five different stake levels
• Daily, weekly and monthly jackpot bingo rooms (and we do mean jackpot – the monthly one has a prize pool of £100K!) . These run in separate rooms so it’s really easy to buy tickets.

A single chat room covers all of the bingo rooms at Vampire Bingo, and there’s also a Learner Room where you can ask newbie questions.  You can check to see who else is online and add other players to your friends list.

Visit the Prebuy lobby tab to buy tickets further ahead than the next game.  It defaults to showing you all the games that are due to take place in the next two hours but you can also narrow it down by room and/or select time periods later in the day. Dig around a bit more and you’ll discover a powerful filtering option that lets you find games by bingo type (75 ball, 90 ball etc), feature (1TG, Roll On etc) and/or ticket price, for dates and times up to 30 days in the future.

The bingo lobby also has a Games tab where you can find a selection of slot games by Playtech and Eyecon (including progressive jackpots) which you can play without leaving the bingo part of the site.  You can also play them as minigames inside a bingo room.

Slots at Vampire Bingo

Progress Play work with more than 50 different games providers so it comes as no surprise that the range of slot games at Vampire Bingo is huge and varied.  If you want to browse through all of the games you can do so in the All Games or Slots lobby tab but this is not recommended as they are in what looks like no particular order and there’s no way to sort or filter them.

The search box works well; it shows results after you’ve typed in just two characters and they include game providers, not just game names.  This is really helpful if you want to find more games from a provider whose games you’ve enjoyed in the past; you can also see games grouped by provider in the Providers area of the lobby but it’s quicker and easier to use the search box.

It’s good that there is a search box because there’s not much game categorisation in the lobby. Apart from tabs for new releases and featured games, the only other slot tabs are Vegas (which contains slot games by Playtech) and Jackpots (which is just what you’d expect, with more than 120 games including Mega Moolah, Age of the Gods and a slew of titles by Eyecon).

You can add games to your favourites by tapping the heart icon on the game tile to make them easy to find again (once you’ve located the Favourites part of the lobby which is accessible from the main menu).

Going beyond slot games, if you vist the Casual lobby tab you’ll find a wealth of scratchcards, Lucky Tap, lotto style and crash games plus some video bingo. The Casino tab has a few roulette, blackjack and other table games but if you are looking for live casino, you won’t find any of those sorts of games here.

Sports Betting at Vampire Bingo

Apart from at the big name bookies you don’t often find a bingo focused site that also has a sportsbook.  Vampire Bingo has one, and as well as covering a wide variety of sports and esports, you can bet on politics and showbiz. In play betting is also available on a range of sports and esports; Progress Play have also recently added Bet Builder functionality on some football matches and on a few other ball sports.

There’s also a range of deposit based sports promotions including free bets and cashback on specific sports.

While hardcore sports betting enthusiasts may be disappointed by the omission of features such as Best Odds Guaranteed and Acca Insurance, there’s plenty enough here to keep the rest of us happy.

Other Things To Consider

To access customer support at Vampire Bingo, you’ll need to be logged in. You can then use the speech bubble icon on your account settings screen 24/7 to send them a message.  Alternatively you can email them but you’ll have to look through the FAQ to find the email address.  There’s also a Support option on the main menu, but it just goes to said FAQ with no obvious contact option.

Vampire Bingo offers an excellent range of deposit methods including Neosurf, mobile phone billing and instant banking and most of them can be used to claim the welcome offer and other promotions.  They do charge a fee for withdrawals but you will never pay more than £3.

The promotions page at Vampire Bingo has several bingo bonus deposit offers (all of which can be claimed multiple times) plus reminders of Playtech bingo highlights.  All of the promotional banners make use of the vampire theming in a most entertaining way.  There’s also plenty of slot promotions (on a page of their own) including leaderboards, cashback promotions and deposit offer codes that can be used multiple times.

Final Thoughts

The combination of Playtech bingo with the vast range of slot games in the Progress Play games library is a real winner, and the inclusion of a sportbook as well makes Vampire Bingo a worthy competitor to much larger operators.  If you like to dabble in a bit of everything (apart from live casino) it could be right up your street.