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It’s jackpot time at Bet365! The “bingo heads” are playing host to not one, not two, not three… but FOUR huge escalator jackpots. Three of the jackpots are already in progress, while the fourth kicks off on Tuesday May 8th.

It’s said that over £155,000 is guaranteed to be given away during this jackpot season. The prizes are up for grabs in the 80 ball Fame and Fortune Hunter room, and also in the Deal or No Deal bingo rooms. The current three jackpots which are running currently stand at £45,000, £30,000 and £20,000. The big jackpot, however, will start on Tuesday with a £60,000 jackpot up for grabs in the 90 ball Kiss & Tell, Guilty Pleasures and Catwalk rooms.

But what are escalator jackpots, I hear you ask?

Well, the idea behind the escalator jackpot is that the chance of winning gets greater the longer it goes without being won. The jackpots start at a set number of calls. The £60,000 jackpot will start at 30 calls, with the ball count increasing by one ball daily until the prize is won.

Simple, huh?

New players to Bet365 can currently enjoy a £25 free bingo bonus. This is available to all players as soon as they have deposited and played through £5 on bingo tickets.

This is a very special phrase in the online bingo world and coveted and sought out by many players as a valuable resource for getting to know a new bingo site without having to invest any real cash.

Securing a no deposit bingo deal means that you can register with a site that you have never played at before and safely investigate its rooms and offers. Some sites require players to input card details to release the free bingo bonus and others don’t. Some players are reluctant to supply card details to unfamiliar sites, so it is always worth checking out the terms and conditions of the offer first.

It is always worth checking out the T’s & C’s of all bingo sites, but when a no deposit bingo bonus is involved it could avoid ultimate disappointment. This is because while some bingo sites allow players to keep any winnings derived from the bonus to carry on playing and achieve real cash winnings that are withdrawable, others only offer free trial money, which never translates to real winnings and will disappear when a deposit is made.

Taking advantage of a no deposit bingo offer will often enable you to enter the chat rooms and while it will be a very rare case that you will be able to take part in and win chat games on offer without being a depositing player, it does give the opportunity to discover how friendly your fellow players are and what they think of the site. You will also get the chance to see how active the chat hosts are and how they interact with players.

There are some specialised sites that offer lots of information about where the best no deposit bingo offers can be found, such as WhichBingo.co.uk. It also sometimes happens that sites such as these secure no deposit deals that are only available through them and not by visiting the bingo site directly.

One such offer that we have been able to secure for readers is with Fabulous Bingo. Click here to visit the site and to get a free £5 no deposit bingo bonus to play with at this new site that operates on Gamesys software, the same as Sun Bingo and Jackpotjoy.

It’s a common misconception that Heinz have 57 different products. They in fact have many more. 57 was choosen due to the fact the numbers 5 and 7 have special meaning to the Heinz family. The number 5 was John Heinz’s lucky number, while 7 was his wife’s.

In total, Heinz is thought to have almost 6,000 products worldwide. But that hasn’t stopped the famous Heinz 57 Varieties becoming popular at bingo halls throughout the UK.

And as if that wasn’t enough facts for you… did you know that baked beans were far from being the first Heinz product. That particular honour goes to prepared horseradish!

You need to be familiar with either the book or film to know this one! The Thirty-Nine Steps was originally a novel by John Buchan, but became famous thanks to the 1935 film by Sir Alfred Hitchcock.

This lingo is taken from the famous ABBA song, Dancing Queen. To save you from digging our your old records, the lyric goes: “You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen…”

Traditionally, the UK pension age was 65 – although it was lower for women until recently. Indeed, 65 will no longer be the age at all before long – who knows whether this one will get updated in bingo halls as well.

This one dates back quite some years. Traditionally bed and breakfast establishments in the UK charged 2 shillings and 6 pence to customers wishing to use their facilities. This was always shortened as “2 and 6″ – and so the bingo call was born.

Danny La Rue was a famous entertainer, best known for his drag act. We was also a regular performer in the traditional Christmas pantomime season, and made a guest appearance on a Mr. Bean episode. We are pretty sure the 52 is simply because it rhymes… though we’d gladly be proven wrong if anyone can shed any further light.

Par for the course, number 72, finds its roots in the game of Golf. Traditionally, a golf course has a “par” of 72; par being the number of shots it should take to complete the course.

Nowadays many golf courses have a par which differ from this 72, but bingo continues to maintain the link the traditional 72.

For those of you who enjoy the game of darts, this one needs no explaining. But those less familiar with the numbered circular board found in many a pub… the bulls eye is the centre of the board and is worth 50 points if hit by the thrower.