A Montgomery woman won $1.1 million playing bingo at Quincy's Triple Seven Casino - the largest single bingo jackpot in the casino's history . Cynthia Brown won the jackpot while playing a 10-cent video bingo game at the Shorter facility Tuesday, said Quincy's chief executive Milton McGregor

Some bingo games have started in Arkansas before the Legislature has finished the wording on a law to make the games legal. Two charitable groups in the Jonesboro area have opened their doors and are conducting bingo games. One is offering a pull-tab game that may qualify as a raffle.

A popular vote by the people of Arkansas in November 2006 approved nonprofit groups to run bingo games in 2007. Just two weeks into the new year the number of nonprofit groups calling the Independence County Sheriff’s Office to get a license to play bingo continues to grow.

World Bingo Network, operator of the world's largest network of online bingo sites, today announced that they are still accepting US Players at all of their network sites. As many of you know, a bill passed last week by the US Senate relating to online gaming. This bill, the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006" is due to be signed into law by President Bush this week.

Lady Luck was on the side of five Sun Beach Bingo players who hit the jackpot yesterday in the last instalment of the sizzlingly popular game. Fay Jasman of Lac La Biche, Nicole Clausen of Gibbons and Cathy McMillan of Ponoka, along with Gladys Romanko and Suzanne Hrysio of Edmonton, split the $10,000 pot for a cool $2,000 each.

RIVERTON, WYOMING - The Northern Arapaho Tribe's Wind River Casino near Riverton has discontinued offering bingo. Casino manager Jim Conrad says the operation has moved high stakes slot machines into the space once used for bingo.

After much discussion between local and state officials, non-profit organizations meeting certain criteria will be allowed to host electronic bingo in Walker County. Sheriff John Mark Tirey said his office, which has been responsible for issuing bingo permits since 1993, had gotten numerous requests for applications to play electronic bingo. Permits or licenses for bingo are issued only to non-profit organizations that have been in existence for 60 months and have owned real property for at least five.

Whatever you may wish to call the pastime, here in Tenerife playing this game for money is supposedly only legal in properly accredited places. Prize Bingo is slightly different but the authorities still wish to ensure that as soon as their backs are turned the ubiquitous bottle of wine or 200 cigarettes are not exchanged for money!