Showreel Bingo Review

Look out the popcorn and get comfy on the sofa. Showreel Bingo are here to entertain you as they take it back to the golden age of movies, when pleasures were simpler.

For the record, it’s bingo, not cinema they’ll be serving you, but since the site is operating on a movie tip, it’s easy to confuse the two. Cinema seems a fitting theme for a bingo website, because, well, you’ve got to model your site on something after all. Presenting the action is an anthropomorphic projector who’s on a mission to introduce new players to the wonderful world of bingo while squeezing in as many movie references as possible.

The name might be Showreel Bingo, but pride of place on the homepage belongs to the show wheel, the one that all new players get to spin to find out what sort of prize they’ve won with their first deposit. It could be £5 in bonus cash or it could be £2,500 – there’s only one way to find out. Don’t get your hopes up too much though: the site’s operators don’t disclose how the wheel works, but it’s safe to assume it lands on £5 more often than it alights on the top prize.

In addition to 75-ball and 90-ball bingo, there are slots to be played at Showreel Bingo and possibly some other games too, the exact nature of which remain top secret.

About Showreel Bingo

Showreel Bingo is the property of Jumpman Gaming Ltd, an Alderney-based company who rival Cassava Enterprises Ltd for attempting to churn out the most bingo sites with identical promotions and games as possible. Taken as a standalone site, any of these companies’ bingo sites are perfectly acceptable. Ranked alongside one another, however, the homogeneity is depressing. If there’s one thing Jumpman Gaming are really good at it’s creating one passable bingo website and then cloning it 1,000 times over.

Showreel Bingo holds a license issued by the UK Gambling Commission. The site promises its users a “Hollywood bingo experience”, which basically means bingo with a projector logo at the top of the page like the ones they use to show movies in cinemas. If that sounds like your idea of heaven, sign up without delay. There’s not much else to report about the site other than the fact that its servers are based in Guernsey. This is clearly an important matter, as it’s one that’s explained on all of Jumpman Gaming’s websites.

Lots of Ways to Pay

Visa Debit, Visa Credit, Visa Electron, Maestro, MasterCard and Solo are the deposit options available to you at Showreel Bingo. It’s a mystery why the site’s owners haven’t seen fit to offer a broader choice of payment options, and it’s one that’s destined to remain unsolved. This unusual business model must be working for Jumpman Gaming, however, or they wouldn’t have deployed it at every single one of their gaming websites.

The minimum withdrawal amount is £30 and there’s a 48-hour wait before withdrawal requests are processed. Funds will appear on your card within 7-14 days.

Winners

You know you’ve made it in life when your name – or rather your username – appears on the Winners page of a bingo website. “ANONYMOUS” and “diytony” have already made it there at Showreel Bingo, scooping £18,600 and £14,100 respectively.

If you’re wondering what games they were playing at the site, or whether the sum was enough to cause Tony to give up the DIY and dedicate himself to playing slots full time, you’ll need to keep wondering. The site provides precious little information as to how these sums were won and what you’ve got to do to match their feat.

Identical Promos

You’d expect a site named Showreel Bingo to have all kinds of movie-themed promotions going on. You’d expect wrong. The promotions to be found here are identical to those found at all Jumpman Gaming sites; even going to the bother of renaming their generic promotions was apparently too much like hard work.

Instead, you’ve got the likes of Monday Madness to look forward to, Weekend Wad, which sees players share £300 in bonus cash, and the prospect of playing in the Newbies Bingo Room during your first week at the site. Games run from 8pm-11pm daily and there’s a staggering £3 in jackpot prizes to be won with every game.

The opening offer that all new players can enjoy is a 200% first deposit match. Deposit £10 and you’ll receive a total of £30 to play with. You’ll also get to spin the wheel, which will furnish you with additional bonus cash on top. Every Friday night, there are party chat games, which are basically just like regular bingo games but with extra chat and party vibes, because nothing screams party animal like sitting alone in the house on a Friday night playing bingo. There’s also a promotion called Streak Buster, where players who collect 5 stars in a row will receive free tickets for their sixth game.

Two Types of Bingo

You came here to play bingo and play bingo you shall. Specifically, you’ll play 75-ball and 90-ball bingo, cos those are the two types available at all Jumpman Gaming sites. There’s not much in it between the two games; you’ve got 3 ways to win with 90-ball bingo: by scoring 1 line, 2 lines or full house. In 75-ball bingo, it’s a race to see who can complete their predetermined pattern first. There can only be one winner in 75-ball bingo, but it’s permissible to buy multiple tickets to boost your chances of winning.

Tickets usually cost just a few pennies; expect to pay anywhere from 1p to £1 depending on the size of the jackpot at stake. The prizes on offer can go all the way up to £2,000, though you’ll generally be playing for a prize pool worth pounds rather than thousands of pounds. Showreel Bingo’s CMs – chat moderators – are on hand throughout the day to keep things civil and convivial. Chatting with fellow players isn’t integral to the bingo games, but it’s an element that many players seem to cherish.

Showreel Slots

There are slots to play at Showreel Bingo including Irish Luck, Sugar Train, Fluffy Favourites and Shaman’s Dream. That’s all that’s known about the site’s non-bingo games.

A Movie Flop

Showreel Bingo is a highly forgettable site, despite its movie theme and crisp design. There’s little by the way of thematic continuity, with only passing references to movie tropes to tie in with the look of the site. From a playing perspective, the games work just fine and the site’s easy to browse on your device of choice, whatever that may be.

The deposit options are limited, withdrawals take way too long to clear and the promotions are generic and insipid. The prospect of spinning the wheel with every deposit provides a few fleeting seconds of fun at least an,d who knows, there may be some decent games to play at the site. Then again, since there’s no concrete information provided on this either way, this is all supposition.