I would describe it as the crazy love child from a three way between Mecca Bingo, The Hacienda and The Price is Right!Ī lucky winner! Image Credit: Bongo’s Bingo The Prizes Some numbers though have a tenuous link to a song that is then played out at high volume, resulting in players immediately jumping to their feet to bust out a move! The throng of players goes eerily quiet as the host calls out the numbers in his imitable style. It’s hard to capture the unique mix of everything that happens during a game of Bongo’s Bingo – it’s partly a show, partly a rave, partly a hedonistic escape, but amidst the dance-offs and alcohol fuelled intervals the basics of bingo are still very much part of the experience. Whatever he asked us to do, we did it, including the Macarena! Whoever the host was, he instantly won the affections of the fun loving audience who hung off his every word the whole night. The crowd went crazy, like a group of hormonal teens at a boyband concert. I couldn’t confidently tell you the name of the host on the night I attended as my pals and I were sat quite far back from the stage but I was well aware of his arrival when I heard a voice boom confidently through the speakers… “Let’s play f***ing bingo!” The event’s creator and former pub quiz master, ‘Jonny Bongo’, is the now famous host of these wild nights but he’s recently had to take on new recruits in order to keep up with the demand for Bongo’s Bingo across the globe.

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