BBQ Bingo Review

Barbecues and bingo are two things you normally wouldn’t put together – one’s enjoyed on the internet or in cavernous halls, the other outside on sunny days – but BBQ Bingo are on a mission to change all that.

The site serves up all manner of appetising bingo games, but as for the barbecue part, you’ll have to provide that yourself. Fire up your smartphone, light the grill and get some sausages sizzling. While they do their thing, you’ve got just enough time to play a quick game of 75-ball bingo.

The site, which is operated by Cassava Enterprises Limited, is decked out in a beach holiday theme, complete with parasols, piers, seagulls and sand. Capping it all is the site’s logo, depicting a chef’s hat and a skewer with a mustard-drenched sausage. It certainly dispels any doubts about the symbology behind the name: this is a literal BBQ Bingo.

The Team behind the Name

Cassava Enterprises have form for throwing together bingo and casino websites and delivering them to British audiences. Each one contains roughly the same games, promos and features, but the theme of each site varies.

Quite what possessed the company to devise a barbecue-themed bingo site is anyone’s guess, but it’s actually quite refreshing to encounter a gambling website that isn’t based around the concept of triple 7s or lucky 8s.

Speaking of 8s, the site’s UK operations are handled by 888 UK Limited, who are based in Gibraltar and licensed by the Great Britain Gambling Commission. BBQ Bingo’s European operations, meanwhile, are handled by Virtual Digital Services Limited.

Banking with BBQ Bingo

To get the ball rolling – to get all the bingo balls rolling – you’ll first need to deposit some funds into your account. Just £10 is all you should need initially thanks to the site’s casino bonus. There are numerous convenient payment options, all administered via a secure, encrypted portal that ensures your data remains private. Take your pick from PayPal, Ukash and Neteller or select Paysafecard if you prefer. Credit and debit cards are also supported including Visa, MasterCard and Maestro.

When it comes to withdrawing funds, there’s a 48-hour processing period. Including the time it’ll take after that for the money to show up in your account, expect a total wait of 4-7 days in most cases, longer if you’ve selected cheque or wire transfer.

Sizzling Promotions

There are a lot of promotions on offer at BBQ Bingo, but the most enticing is the site’s introductory deal: deposit £10 and you’ll get to play with £40. This figure is arrived at by means of a 200% bingo bonus coupled with a 100% game bonus. There’s an 80x wagering requirement before any bonus cash can be withdrawn.

Once you’re a fully fledged member of the site, there are plenty of other promotions up for grabs including seasonal bonuses, free spins and ‘tangible gifts’ – that’s right, items you can actually hold in your hand. For its Christmas promotion, for example, the site uses an advent calendar style format: click on a date on the calendar to discover the offer that awaits.

There are limited tickets available for BBQ Bingo’s Late Night Show game, with the room limited to 75 funded players. This qualifies as a promotion – and it’s listed on the site’s promotion page – because there are a few perks to this game, like no wagering requirements and the potential to win £100 in cash every night. The game commences at 12:45am, so is for night owls only.

For players who keep more conventional hours, look out for Monday Funday Happy Hour, which sees double loyalty points and other bonuses between 4pm and 6pm every Monday.

It Pays to be Loyal

The operators of BBQ Bingo operate the same loyalty scheme as that to be found at other Cassava Enterprises sites. The premise is simple: earn loyalty points – or jewels as they’re called here – and exchange them for cashback and other bonuses as you climb up the rankings. All players start as a Bingo Rookie before rising to Pro once they’ve pocketed some jewels, which are paid out at a rate of 12 for every £1 deposited. Once you’ve amassed 600 jewels you’ll level up to Master, rising to Champ when you hit 2,400 jewels.

The bonuses that are paid out as part of the loyalty scheme include cashback on everything you wager, at a rate of 5-15%, free spins and free tickets to the big £10k game, each of which is worth £10. At Champ level, you’ll receive 10 of these every month. Master and Champ level players will also earn games bonus cashback of 5-10% in addition to bingo bonus cashback.

The Best Things in Life are (Almost) Free

One of the best things about bingo is that almost everyone can play because the cost of entry is so low, while the prizes on offer can be extremely high. BBQ Bingo operates a series of free games, with players eligible to enter provided they’ve met the minimum deposit requirements for that particular week. At the bottom of the scale is the Quids In £1 jackpot game, which operates every 8 minutes during the day.

The Freebie game, which has a £35 jackpot, kicks off at 8pm every day and is open to players who’ve deposited a minimum of £10 in the past week. On The House is a £10 jackpot game which operates every 15 minutes during the day and Freemium is a £150 jackpot game held every Friday and open to players who’ve made a single deposit of £100 in the past week.

Play Some Bingo

The two types of bingo available at BBQ Bingo are the 75-ball and 90-ball versions. The former is the variant most popular in North America, while the latter is more common in the UK. BBQ Bingo contains comprehensive playing guides that will enable newcomers to get the hang of both games in no time at all. The value of the prize in the games hosted on the site depends on the number of players involved and the card price.

Several of the games offered at BBQ Bingo have progressive jackpots which can be triggered at any time, paying out a prize over and above the regular jackpot. If you’re in it for the big money, there are daily games that will keep you hooked at BBQ Bingo; if you’re content just to play for buttons and to enjoy the chat, however, you’ll be made to feel just as welcome.

BBQ Bingo Summed up

BBQ Bingo is a cheerful website that will appeal to UK-based bingo aficionados. It offers nothing different from the company’s other bingo websites, but taken as a standalone entity, it’s fit for purpose and fun to boot. The promotions are good and the welcome bonus is also good, if not spectacular.

It would be nice to see some instant win games, but in fairness to BBQ Bingo, there’s nothing wrong with sticking to what they do best: 75 and 90-ball bingo, pure and simple.