Bingo Billy Review

Bingo is traditionally thought of as a British game, or at least one which enjoys a lot of action in the UK as well as in Scandinavia. It is worth remembering however that the US market is also extremely fond of bingo, regardless of what the law says in various states regarding online gambling. Many online casinos and bingo sites avoid the US market for legal reasons, while others go out of their way to target it. At Bingo Billy there is a flag of the USA with the words ‘US players welcome’. Prices are displayed in dollars, making it clear that Americans are more than welcome to sign up at Bingo Billy.

Players from other countries are welcome too, but it is evident where Bingo Billy's loyalties lie. The site has a cheerful vibe to it with a bucolic scene featuring blue skies, white fluffy clouds, a cute little bumblebee and a blonde-haired girl holding a banner revealing the number of years this site has been online, for a figure which stands at 11. Sign up and claim your free no deposit bonus.

About Bingo Billy

Bingo Billy describes itself as offering the ultimate online bingo experience. It has got a few honours to back this up, having been voted bingo site of the year 2012 by readers of WhichBingo.com. It has also accrued a number of other awards which seem to suggest this site has something going for it, even if most of these awards were received at least 5 years ago. The Billy who gives the site its name is supposedly a girl from Florida you fell in love with bingo. The About page goes into great detail, building up Billy's fictional life story and her journey that took her across America, to New York and then Nevada.

It is a cute and endearing means of promoting a bingo site. As a US-focused gambling site, you will need to be over 21 to play at Bingo Billy. If you require customer support while using the site you can get hold of a chat operator on live chat 24 hours a day or you can send them an email. There is also a toll-free US number provided. Bingo Billy has social channels, with its Facebook page at least still supported. Its Twitter account appears to have been deleted all together though, even though the link still exists.

Billy Whizz Banking

The site doesn't appear to have a banking page so your best option is to get in touch with customer support to find out more. It appears that your deposit options include Visa, MasterCard, EcoPayz, Neteller and UseMyServices. There isn't an FAQ on the site so isn't that easy to deduce the answer to any other common queries you might have either which is unfortunate to say the least. It is possible to view the number of players currently on the site though, a figure which is typically in the low hundreds but unfortunately there is little by way of customer support or useful information provided on the site.

$30 Bonus Straight Away

When you sign up at Bingo Billy there is a $30 no deposit bonus when you validate your card. There is also up to $600 in welcome bonus cash to be claimed. Check out the promotions page on the site and you'll find that, as with other areas of Bingo Billy, it is mostly concerned with bigging up the fact that it was awarded bingo site of the year 5 times. This may well be the case, but it would appear to be trading on past glories. Regardless, there are plenty of bonuses has to be claimed at the site starting with your $30 trial bonus which can be used on parlay games on the site between certain times.

There's also a progressive welcome bonus program which awards a 500% bonus on your first deposit, a 525% bonus on your second deposit, a 550% bonus on your third deposit and then a 600% bonus on your fourth and fifth deposits. As a new member of the site there are also $600 new member freerolls to get in about which are bingo games that are free to enter. Bingo Billy also operates special private bingo rooms for new players.

Fun Bingo Rooms

Rooms at Bingo Billy have names such as Thrifty Nickel, Wild Penny, Crazy Quarters and Blue Room. Tickets for these cost between 1 cent and $3 and the prize available for entering each one is clearly displayed alongside it. Pre-buy your tickets before getting involved. One piece of information that isn't provided concerns the actual types of bingo you can play in these rooms. It’s reasonable to assume that 75-ball bingo is the main type of game, given that this is the most popular type of bingo in North America, but it is hard to say for certain. It is unfortunate that there is not more information available on this site regarding this.

Billy’s Slots Range

There is also a good range of slots to be played at Bingo Billy. It isn't possible to view a great selection of the slots on the main games page but click through to the subpage dedicated to 3D slots and you’ll find featured games such as Get Cracking which is a 5-reel 9-payline slot set on the farm and Trolling For Treasure which is an underwater slot again with 9-paylines. Other titles include Gorgeous George, Lucky 7s and Karat Crazy. These aren’t the best slots ever hosted at a bingo site, put it that way, but they’ll have to do.

Thankfully there are plenty of other games to distract you at Bingo Billy including a good range of video poker titles that include Bonus Poker, Deuces Wild, Joker Poker and Double Joker. The table games category is unfortunately sparse on games. In fact, there’s just one game to play, blackjack. It seems odd to allocate a table games category and then fail to populate it with games. The Keno category is just as slim with just a solitary version of the Asian lottery-style game.

Bingo Billy Conclusion

Bingo Billy is a disappointing site, certainly compared to the standards of the better bingo sites available in the UK. US players have a slimmer selection, so are obliged to take what they can. Nice as it is that the site accepts card payments from US citizens, it’s a shame that more effort hasn’t been put into the quality of the games themselves. The bingo games don’t look particularly inviting and it’s hard to ascertain the value of the jackpots at stake. There also isn’t any sense of a vibrant bingo community here, and the slots aren’t much cop either. As for the table games, what table games? Bingo Billy might have been an award-winning site a few years ago but today it could use some work.