Scope Bingo Review

Scope Bingo is a new site selling a familiar concept, namely the ability to play 75 and 90-ball bingo any hour of the night or day. How much does the UK enjoy bingo? Judging by the number of bingo adverts being show on primetime TV and by the number of bingo sites being churned out, the answer is “a whole lot”. You’d think the market would be saturated by now, but not according to the developers behind Scope Bingo, who are hell-bent on designing new bingo websites at a dizzying rate.

There’s £20 of free bingo cash to play with when you deposit £10 plus the prospect of winning another £2,500 when you spin the wheel. This is an exciting thing. So exciting that Scope Bingo have used multiple exclamation marks to emphasise just how exciting this is. The site, whose games have been designed to work on mobile and tablet, also offers its members a range of slots, the very same slots that are available at all of the owners’ bingo sites.

About Scope Bingo

Scope Bingo is operated by Jumpman Gaming Limited. Despite the company disclosing that it is registered in Alderney, there’s little revealed about its owners and their intentions. Well, their intentions are obviously to flood the UK market with online bingo clones, but beyond that not much is known. Scope Bingo holds a license granted by the UK Gambling Commission, and British players account for the bulk of its customers.

The site was launched in 2015, with Jumpman Gaming hosting it on servers in Guernsey, where all of the company’s many gambling sites are hosted. That’s literally all there is to learn from Scope Bingo’s About page. Actually, there is one more thing: the site urges players to get in touch via email if they’ve any suggestions or just want to say hi. “We’d love to hear from you” they finish.

Feel free to test this theory by simultaneously emailing all of Jumpman Gaming’s bingo sites at the same time, using the email addresses found on the identical About pages of their identical websites.

Be a Winner

Many of Jumpman Gaming’s sites have a top menu link called Winners, whose role should be self-explanatory. If discovering the sort of sums to be won at the site will incentivise you to sign up then by all means check it out. Scope Bingo’s winners page has a top 10, but provides no information on how these players won these sums. Was it playing slots? Bingo? Scratch games? For the record, £12,600 is the largest sum that’s been won on the site to date.

How to Deposit

To make a deposit at the site you’ll need a credit or debit card. Specifically, you’ll need Visa Debit, Visa Credit, Visa Electron, Maestro, Mastercard or Solo. Those are the only options that are ever accepted at sites operated by Jumpman Gaming.

Other rules which remain consistent across their countless near-identical websites are a minimum withdrawal amount of £30, a 48-hour wait before funds are released and then an additional 7-14 days before funds show up on your card. It would be fair to say that deposit and withdrawal options are not one of Jumpman Gaming’s strong points.

Familiar Promotions

The welcome bonus available at Scope Bingo is the same one that always surfaces: £20 of bonus cash when you deposit £10 and a spin of the wheel that could net you anywhere from £5 to £2,500. You’ll be entitled to another spin of the wheel any time you deposit a minimum of £10. After you’ve made your first deposit, your first port of call should be to the Newbies Free Bingo Room, where there are some games with enticing jackpots that are eligible to new players during their first week at the site.

The remaining promotions will be only too familiar to anyone who’s visited another Jumpman Gaming bingo site: Friday Night Takeaway, which is a bonus game with £50 of meal vouchers as a prize. A promotion named Monday Madness, one called Tuesday Treasure and another called Weekend Wad, with £300 in bonus cash to be won. There are loyalty points, earned on bingo chat games and tourneys, and which can be redeemed for bonus cash at a rate of 1,000 points per £1. You’ll also receive 5,000 points for referring a friend to the site.

Be a VIP

Scope Bingo has a special term for its members: Scopians. Oh well, it’s better than calling them Scopers. Scopians (implying any member of the site refers to themselves in such a manner) can enroll in a VIP programme that has 5 tiers.

Everyone starts off at Member level before climbing to Bronze, Silver, Gold and Black. As you ascend the rankings, there are improved reload bonuses and cashback offers along with birthday bonuses and special VIP games.

Bingo Choice

75 and 90-ball bingo are the two types on offer at Scope Bingo, the same two types that are always on offer at Jumpman Gaming sites. The 75-ball game is pattern-based, with players looking to tick off numbers that follow predetermined patterns. It could be the shape of an egg, an aeroplane, a firework or a glass of champagne.

What’s the point in the patterns? Well, it’s more fun than scoring off a horizontal line of numbers, arguably. Traditionalists can still play the 90-ball game however, seeking to score 1-line, 2-line and full house wins.

Slots

There are slots to be played at Scope Bingo, that much can be confirmed. What can also be confirmed is that these slots include Irish Luck, Sugar Train, Fluffy Favourites and Shaman’s Dream. Beyond that, nothing is known, because Jumpman Gaming usually elect not to publicise this information on their bingo sites. There are probably some scratch games too and possibly even a couple of table games, but it’s hard to tell for sure.

It’s something of a mystery why Jumpman Gaming persist with featuring these 4 video slots prominently at all of their bingo sites given that all 4 of them are middling at best. They probably do stock some slots of a higher quality – yes, there are games out there that are better than Fluffy Favourites, inconceivable as this may sound – but as always, it’s impossible to tell because as always that information isn’t readily available.

There’s Scope to Improve

Scope Bingo is another cookie cutter site from Jumpman Gaming that offers nothing you won’t find elsewhere. It’s an innocuous and perfectly capable site to play bingo at, but there is no reason why you should choose Scope Bingo over anything else out there. There isn’t a single game, feature or bonus you won’t find at literally dozens of identical sites on the web.

There’s a case for saying that the site’s operators have simply settled on a tried and tested formula and have found a method that works for them. There’s also a case for saying that if they can’t be bothered trying to devise an original looking site, why should you waste your time playing there? Scope Bingo: it ain’t the best but it ain’t the worst either. It’s just okay.