Planet bingo and Leisure electronics would like to congratulate Anne, the lucky winner from the Beacon club in Loughborough, who on Tuesday 9th March won a magnificent jackpot in excess of £85,000, playing bingo in her local club.

This is just the latest in a series of wins for Beacon members who between them have won a total of £2,164,809 in jackpots, in just 20 months, playing “Beacon 24 Bingo” a concept which is licensed by Planet Bingo in America, and distributed exclusively in the UK by Leisure Electronics of Hull. General Manager at the club, Kevin Farnsworth said: "Everyone at the club was delighted to see one of our regular customers win such a fantastic jackpot amount. The atmosphere was electric. We are a very lucky club and Anne is just one of many large winners over the last few years on both our Beacon 24 Multi Jackpot ticket and also the National Bingo Game” 

The game, as it is played in Beacon clubs, gives customers the opportunity to win one of 5 progressive jackpot prizes on each 1 line game, two of the jackpot prizes on each 2 line game, and three of the jackpot prizes on each full house game. Beacon clubs play these games on 8 pages every afternoon and evening, giving customers a whopping 48 chances of scooping a jackpot prize every session. The cost to the customers is just £2.00 and it is so popular that over 80% of players are taking part in the game.

Since the start of the game in May 2008, there have been 2618 jackpot prizes paid out to customers, an average of 17 prizes per week with a top payout of £104,378 and nine others ranging from £12,000 to £78,129. All these jackpots are in addition to the regular prize money paid out on these games.

“Our customers have really taken to the concept” says Steve Young operations manager of beacon bingo, and he further commented “the game has enabled our group of clubs to offer a life changing progressive jackpot game at a low cost to our customers”.

One of the key features of “Beacon 24 bingo” is that although some of the prizes are linked, the games themselves are not, with each club generating its own ball call, and verifying its own claims; the system is however configurable so that the games and the prizes can be either in house or linked; games can be played over any number of pages, and you can have separate games for different sessions; thus you can play the game the way that is best for your customers and your business.

Most clubs operate some sort of jackpot style game for which customers generally pay a supplement to enter; this extra cost is usually around £1 per person, and typically provides only one opportunity to win a jackpot prize which will vary from club to club, but tends to grow to around a maximum of £2,000. Beacon 24 offers fantastic value for money when you consider that for an extra £1, customers have many more chances to win much larger amounts.