Vic’s Bingo
An archived review of a bingo site that has closed
Vic’s Bingo 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
Vic’s Bingo was sold on its community. Our review describes a welcoming room with more than three hundred patterns to play, a schedule of promotions announced through a community newsletter, chat games and competitions, and bonuses of 100 per cent on a first deposit and up to 200 per cent afterwards. Jackpot games ran at $10,000, with $1,000 jackpot games every hour.
There was also a photograph album: players sent in a picture of themselves and received a $10 bonus for it.
The software
Not recorded in our review.
What it tells you about the period
The photo album is the detail that would be impossible now, and it is worth pausing on. Paying players a bonus to upload a photograph of themselves to a gambling site is not something any licensed operator could do today, and the reasons — data protection, age verification, the duty to protect vulnerable customers — are most of what has changed about this business since.
Three hundred patterns, though, is a real number and a good one. It is the 75-ball game played properly, and our guide to 75-ball bingo explains how the pattern changes the length and the feel of every game.
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.