Candy Shop Bingo Review

What colour is a site named Candy Shop Bingo going to be? Why pink of course. Very pink and very sickly. The visual equivalent of gargling with sugar water, Candy Shop Bingo inhabits a bubble world where everything is saccharine sweet and cartoon bright. Just looking at the homepage is enough to make your teeth ache, but there’s no disputing that it’s a cute and attractively rendered site. Sign up and you can lose yourself in a world of confectionery-themed games and promotions, from bingo to slots.

Optimised for tablet and mobile and marketed towards British women, Candy Shop Bingo’s mascot is named Betty. She’s the kindly soul who’ll guide you around the site and encourage you to get involved with the 75 and 90-ball bingo games that are regularly scheduled all through the day. If you’re the sort of person who likes Candy Crush, you may well be the sort of person who will appreciate Candy Shop Bingo. Life is very sweet when you’re playing at this pinker-than-pink website.

About Candy Shop Bingo

Candy Shop Bingo is the property of Cassava Enterprises Ltd, a gaming operator who are registered in Gibraltar and in possession of a gaming license issued by the Gibraltar government. Cassava Enterprises are in turn a part of 888 UK Ltd, who take care of the site’s British business, a role that’s performed in Europe by Virtual Digital Services Ltd. All of these companies are in turn the property of 888 group, a gaming company of some size and some renown.

Candy Shop Bingo holds a license issued by the Great Britain Gambling Commission. All of the games to be found on the site have been independently verified to ensure fair play and honest payouts. As for the concept behind the site, Candy Shop Bingo apparently aspires to emulate the good old days when the traditional sweetie shop was the recipient of many a child’s lunch money, only instead of handpicked bon bons and strawberry laces, it’s slots, bingo and scratch cards. For an authentic candy experience, however, feel free to buy a big bag of retro sweets and munch on them while you play.

Like Taking Sweets…

Some Cassava Enterprises sites cover deposit and withdrawal options on a banking page or via their FAQ; others don’t. Candy Shop Bingo doesn’t, but it’s no biggie as the basics can be gleaned due to the fact that beneath the quirky theme, all Cassava Enterprises sites are basically identical. If you’ve played at any of the firm’s numerous other bingo websites, you should be familiar with the available deposit options here, most of which revolve around credit and debit card.

Visa, Maestro and MasterCard are the main 3 supported; payment can be made securely via the Candy Shop Bingo website or over the phone using a freephone number. (This is all assuming that the site works just like all of the other Cassava Enterprises sites out there.) If you’re not a big fan of card, you can still play at Candy Shop Bingo, crediting your account with the aid of PayPal, Neteller, Entropay, Paysafecard or bank transfer. Withdrawal requests take 48 hours to be processed and there’s a minimum amount of £30 specified.

Sweet Deals

To sweeten the deal, Candy Shop Bingo has a £30 bingo bonus to offer all new players along with £10 worth of free spins. Deposit a minimum of £10 to claim this offer. This 300% bingo bonus, to a maximum of £100, is subject to a 4x wagering requirement before funds can be withdrawn. The other promotions to be found on the site include Candy Collector, a neat take on the traditional gumball machine. Put your coins in, turn the virtual handle and grab a load of candy.

You’ll receive 2 free candy coins for signing up and 1 more coin for every deposit you make. Match candies, which are obtained from Betty’s gumball machine to win a prize. 3x blue candies are worth a £10 bingo bonus. 3x orange candies are worth a £10 games bonus. 3x green candies are worth 5,000 loyalty points and 5x rainbow candies are worth a £200 bonus. Desktop and mobile players alike can collect candies, and what’s more if you swap devices, your candies will still be there when you log in on the secondary device.

Two Types of Bingo Game

75-ball and 90-ball bingo are the 2 types of games to be found at Candy Shop Bingo. Complete playing guides for each one are available on the site for the benefit of newcomers. For the record, there isn’t a whole lot to learn; each game is simple to play with the gentlest of learning curves. In the 90-ball game, the type that’s most popular in Britain, you win by completing 1 line, 2 lines or full house on the 9x3 playing grid. Multiple tickets can be purchased for a single game, with each one priced at just a few pence.

The 75-ball game takes place on a 5x5 grid, and while the basic rules are the same, this time you can complete lines according to a number of predefined patterns. These add a bit of fun to the traditional game and make things more interesting. With both games, there’s the option to chat live with your fellow players while the bingo numbers are coming in. In addition to the paid bingo games, there’s a selection of games that are free to enter. While the prizes to be won in these don’t amount to much, they’re still reasonable considering the zero cost of entry.

Slots and Casino

There’s a good selection of slots to be played at Candy Shop Bingo. This includes such popular titles as Gonzo’s Quest, Fruit Shop and Wizard of Oz. Fans of branded games will be taken with the X Factor slot, while Spartacus Gladiator of Rome and Elementis The Awakening also warrant a look. In terms of mini games, the site has just the one – Betty’s Candy Collector – but it’s a good one. Collect as many candies as you can, matching the colours to win bonuses. There may also be some casino games available at Candy Shop Bingo, but these aren’t listed so it’s hard to say for certain.

We’ll Take You to the Candy Shop

Candy Shop Bingo is a charming bingo site that scored highly for presentation and mobile compatibility. As a standalone bingo site, it’s entertaining, eclectic and everything else you could reasonably wish for. The slots and casino games selection isn’t quite as good, or at least it doesn’t appear to be. That’s the problem with many Cassava Enterprises sites: it’s hard to tell quite how many games you’ve got to look forward to.

Thanks to proprietary game Betty’s Candy Collector, the site deserves some play time for the retro gumball machine alone. The candy theme and preponderance of pink will probably start to grate after a while, but in the meantime there’s bingo to be played and money to be made.