Have A Ball Bingo Review

Everyone enjoys a good pun really. Or at least everyone in this office does. It's a shame, of course, that the majority of sources of great puns are perhaps less morally grounded than you would consider yourself, but that's really another point altogether.

The question is, how do you define a pun? Some would say that Have A Ball Bingo is a pun, when in actual fact it's a play on words – the two are different, although not that many people seem to really understand where one starts, and the other begins. Pickiness (or accuracy?) aside, Have A Ball Bingo is a great, fun title for an online bingo site, and one that we feel immediately drawn to. Far more creative than, say, Downtown Bingo, or Black Queen Poker, which are both actual websites we have seen elsewhere online. The question is, though, is Have A Ball Bingo actually any good, or have they spent all their time coming up with a great title only to have the rest left to waste away?

In the Pink

First impressions are pretty good, really. The bold pink of the homepage is perhaps a little garish, but when matched with baby blue at least the overall colour scheme doesn't feel as though it was conceived by someone who is incapable of actually seeing and understanding which hues clash awfully. The fonts are quite typical for good quality bingo and gambling sites – inviting, friendly, fun – without feeling utterly cheap or throwaway, automatically making this far better than the majority of bingo sites we've had the misfortune of reviewing recently.

The information on this homepage is also very clear, and leaves us in no illusion as to what we should be expecting from the website contents. Across the top you have a series of menu options that can be clicked on, and this immediately confirms there's more to this site than bingo (see: slots) and there are some promotional offers here too. Furthermore, there's a mobile site made for tablets and smartphones, which you would expect in this age of everything everywhere on the go, although we can say with a serious degree of certainty that this is something many other website frequently overlook.

On the whole then, you could do a lot worse when it comes to initial look and feel of a bingo website, and as such it's probably time to wrap this introduction up and dig a little deeper into whether or not the fun matches the opening pleasantries.

You Came for Bingo, Didn't You?

Yes, we most certainly did. And you probably did too. Thankfully, Have A Ball Bingo has a seriously good bingo offering, again raising its status as one of the better sites on the internet. When you click on the 'Bingo' option you'll immediately be taken through to a section of the site that is dedicated to bingo, and nothing else. Bingo heaven, you might say then.

This area is largely dominated by a bingo table which has a list of all active games that are in play at that time. From this you can see that there is a pretty wide variety of games in terms of ball numbers – 90 ball, 80 ball, 50 ball, and so on. We have come across so-called bingo websites before that have only had about two or three variations in terms of the number of balls. As such with five at the most recent count we did, Have A Ball is far better than the vast majority out there- or at least equal to the best in the majority, and far better than the average.

The bingo table also shows you important information about what's going on in those active games. That could be the number of people who are playing- which would in turn impact on your chance of winning- the total jackpot size (dictating how much you stand to win), and so on and so forth. You can also easily ascertain if there's enough time left in the game to be worth your time getting involved or not. After all, nobody wants to waste valuable play minutes and money on buying into something that will finish shortly after they have gotten involved.

Slots… and That's Just for Starters

If you click on the Slots menu option on the homepage, based on our experiences with the Bingo area, you would think that there would be a section of the site dedicated entirely to slots. Well, that's true, kind of, but there's actually a lot more to it than all that.

So, hit Slots, and the first thing that will come up is the menu for all the slot games. We love slots, they offer such instant fun and immediate gratification. However, they are also becoming rather advanced these days. There's no denying that on Have A Ball Bingo the slots are as much fun as they should be, but some of them are becoming rather dated and could do with being replaced. Some 3D or virtual slots would be a really good addition and consolidate this website as one of the best around.

Having said that, this is a bingo website, and therefore everything else is really just a bonus, isn't it? Particularly the casinos area, which we haven't even mentioned yet. This is actually a sub-section of the Slots section, and so isn't visible from the homepage at all, which we're not that keen on (tell us this is here, don't make us look for it please, developers) but all is forgiven when you see what's on offer. Far from an after thought, while Have A Go Bingo isn't giving you a full-range casino section here, it is doing its best not to look like this is a cheap, ill-conceived add on to a bingo website. Aces, blackjack, and roulette are all available and ready to play. On top of those, you also get Jackpot games, and free bets, alongside scratch games. The result is a pretty sizeable offering that you're not going to tire of for quite some time.

Check out These Deals

Designed to ensure that tiredness is staved off for even longer, Have A Ball Bingo has plenty of deals and promotions available, all of which can be found in the section called 'Promotions'. Clever, eh?

With almost ten separate offers on the table, Have A Go Bingo really is spoiling its customers. These deals range from standard sign up bonuses, through to rewards that people get when the tweet or post to other social media channels. It's a crafty way of garnering free, organic advertising for the site, but at the end of the day nobody getting the rewards is going to be complaining considering they may well have posted anyway.

Have a Go!

We're pretty sold on Have A Go Bingo to be honest, and perhaps more than we thought we would be. On top of really enjoying the name itself (lots and lots of lolling, as the kids might say), we are really impressed by the presentation and overall offering in terms of the games that are here to play. Perhaps more casino games would be good, maybe it might be nice to have an inkling as to exactly what's on offer when it comes to the casino games themselves, without actually having to go rooting around in the slots section to track them down. Still, it's a small price to pay when everything else is so well considered, not least the abundant promotions mentioned earlier. Consider this a recommendation then.