Snowy Bingo Review

There’s a white Christmas every day when you’re playing at Snowy Bingo. It might be raining outside – regardless of the time of year – but at Snowy Bingo, fat white flakes are constantly falling and the snowmen never melt. It’s a winter wonderland, one where there’s the prospect of claiming bonus cash for signing up and making your first deposit.

The mobile-friendly site is targeted at British players, the world’s greatest bingo devotees. With talk of cash prizes falling like snowflakes, Snowy Bingo certainly succeeds in conjuring the right mood. Pull on your slippers, lie back on the sofa and get comfy.

Although it’s common for bingo sites to offer other casino games too, Snowy Bingo is primarily concerned with bingo. For players who have only a casual interest in other games – or who are concerned that the availability of slots by the dozen might lead them to spend money they can’t afford to part with – this makes the site ideal. Sure, there’s slots, but only a limited number of them.

With bingo tickets costing just pennies, it’s pretty hard to go broke playing at Snowy Bingo unless you’re really determined to run amok and snap up all the tickets you can get your hands on. It’s safe to say the average player is a lot smarter than that.

About Snowy Bingo

Snowy Bingo is operated by Cassava Enterprises Limited, no strangers to the world of bingo. The company, who are amusingly named after the potato family, are based in Gibraltar, from where they plot global domination of the bingo market. Given the sheer number of sites to their name, with more springing up every year, it’s getting to the stage where there’ll soon be more bingo sites than bingo players.

Snowy Bingo holds a UK gaming license issued to 888 UK Ltd who oversee its operations within Britain. The same role in the EU is performed by Virtual Digital Services Ltd. All of the site’s games have been independently tested to ensure that they provide honest payouts and fair play. In addition to the bingo games themselves, there are slots and scratch cards to be played at Snowy Bingo, some of which are packing hefty jackpots.

Predictable Promotions

The promotions, predictably, are identical to those offered by all other Cassava Enterprises bingo sites. It all starts with a 200% bingo bonus and a 100% game bonus, turning your maiden deposit of £10 into £40. Thereafter, the prime promotions to look out for at Snowy Bingo are invitations to tournaments and competitions. Seasonal promotions, for example, include hourly jackpots to be won during the Christmas period, during which time £50,000 is given away.

Slots promotions include an invitation to play NetEnt games, with 20 players sharing a prize pool of £4,000. It’s never exactly clear whether these prizes are limited to the site in question or shared with all of the players at all of Cassava Enterprises’ sites; presumably the latter is true. That being the case, you’ve potentially got some stiff competition to go up against.

The other promotions to be found at Snowy Bingo revolve around special bingo games such as the Late Night Show, which commences every night at 1am.

Banking and Support

Credit and debit cards including Visa, MasterCard and Maestro are all accepted at Snowy Bingo. Likewise with PayPal, Paysafecard and Neteller. These are the prime means of funding your account, though bank transfer is also an option. Withdrawal requests take 48 hours to be processed. Thereafter, UK players can expect 2-3 days before money shows up on their MasterCard, and slightly longer for other methods. Bank transfer is the slowest option; it can take up to a week.

Should you require assistance while using Snowy Bingo, there’s an FAQ that covers deposits and withdrawals. It also delves into the ins and outs of playing the 75 and 90-ball games of bingo. If you can’t resolve your issue with the aid of the FAQ, send the site’s operators an email or speak to them on chat. Customer support will endeavour to respond to email queries within 48 hours.

Two Bingo Options

If you’re here to play bingo, you’ve got two options available: 75-ball and 90-ball. The latter is the version that’s best known and most popular in the UK, with the action taking place on a 3x9 grid. Tickets can be purchased in advance for games, with the value of the prize pot generally varying according to the number of players taking part.

The 75-ball version of the game, popularised in North America, is held on a 5x5 grid. As a spin-off of this, players can play pattern bingo, scoring off shapes, letters or numbers instead of simply straight lines.

One of the most popular aspects of online bingo is the ability to chat with fellow players. It’s an integral part of the gaming experience and, while not mandatory, is one taken up by a great many of them. Snowy Bingo employs moderators to keep things civil in the chat rooms, but for the most part things shouldn’t get too intense. The chat facility provides a means of letting off some steam and unloading about whatever’s on your mind as you wait for your numbers to come in.

Access the Slots

As a Cassava Enterprises site, Snowy Bingo has access to some excellent slots. Games like Jack and the Beanstalk, Gonzo’s Quest, Starburst and Wizard of Oz have been well received by players, which is why they can be found at gambling sites all over the web. Others, such as Cleopatra and Fluffy Favourites, don’t acquit themselves so well, but thankfully there’s enough choice here to atone for that.

Why worry about the shortcomings of Party Pigs when you’ve got Bruce Lee 2 and the X Factor video slot calling your name? There are supposedly some scratch games kicking about too, but if there are, they’re well hidden.

Snowy Rating

Snowy Bingo is a perfectly agreeable bingo site that doesn’t break the mould or do anything out of the ordinary, but which nevertheless provides for a fun gaming experience. It’s a cosy and compact site, one that’s easy to navigate and isn’t populated with pointless menus and text areas. For a bingo site that does what’s expected of it with the minimum of fuss, Snowy Bingo is more than up to the task.

The slots are every bit as good as the bingo games. Indeed, all that’s missing is perhaps some roulette or other table games to round things off.

Devoted bingo players may find the selection of games to be too limited for their liking however. Other sites, after all, offer 30-ball, 50-ball, 80-ball and other permutations of the game. It’s not essential that Snowy Bingo should have these, but it does mean that the site can’t exactly boast of offering its players untold options.

What’s more, the welcome bonus is capped fairly low. It’s fine if you’re a casual player who doesn’t bank on depositing more than about £20 at a time, but more serious gamblers will find better bonuses at other sites out there.