Bingo Cabin
An archived review of a bingo site that has closed
Bingo Cabin is no longer trading and nothing on this page is an offer, a recommendation or a link. It is kept as a record of a review this site published when the brand was running, which was in the 2000s.
Any bonus, jackpot, card price or percentage quoted below is a quotation from that old review and is not a current offer. It could not be claimed if you wanted to: the site is gone. Bonus terms at licensed British sites have also changed since — playthrough is capped at ten times and a single offer may no longer mix bingo with casino games. What the terms mean now.
For sites that are trading and licensed, see the sites we have checked.
What it was
Bingo Cabin sold a three-dimensional bingo hall you downloaded and installed: an avatar that walked around a rendered room, talked to other players in real time, and sat down at a table to play. Our review of it — written when that was the state of the art — described it as “as close to a genuine bingo hall as possible without leaving the home”, which tells you both what the product was trying to do and how it was sold.
The games were 25-cent and 50-cent bingo alongside three and five-reel slots, with video poker listed as “coming soon”. New players were offered fifteen free bingo cards and a pair of bonus slot spins, with a match on the first deposit. There were progressive jackpots on both the bingo and the slots, chat leaders, and support advertised around the clock.
The software
A downloadable 3D client.
What it tells you about the period
The dollar-and-cent card prices place it in the American-facing market of the period, before the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 reshaped it. The downloadable 3D client is the clearest marker of its era: within a few years every serious bingo operator had moved to the browser, and the 3D halls went with the downloads.
Why this page still exists
Most bingo sites from this period are gone, and the usual way to deal with their review pages is to delete them or to redirect them to something that pays. We have done neither. A review this site published is part of its record, and a reader who arrives from a twenty-year-old link deserves to find out what happened rather than to be redirected to an advertisement.
There are no commercial links on this page or anywhere in the archive. The full archive holds twenty-four of these.