Hats offGolden Hat Bingo has been attracting plenty of attention lately. Lia Louis puts it through its paces and comes away impressed
In recent weeks the online bingo site Golden Hat Bingo was crowned the New Site of the Year 2009 by leading UK bingo portal Which Bingo. Surpassing over 20 other new additions to the bingo world thanks to the voting of online bingo lovers, Golden Hat Bingo unquestionably deserves this impressive and flattering title.
A space bursting with colour and glittering images, the home page invites you in the second you log on, and the dazzling, kaleidoscopic theme of pinks, purples and lilacs are present on almost every page and bingo room at Golden Hat Bingo, especially when the bustling bingo lobby is launched.
This beautifully constructed bingo lobby was certainly designed with convenience and user friendliness in mind, as everything from bingo games to account information is available and easily accessed through this one lively and useful window. Links to account information and depositing options run along the top of the bingo lobby, just above a list of active bingo rooms that house a number of bingo game types. On a daily basis, bingo lovers can indulge in 90-ball, 75-ball and 80-ball bingo, in addition to a parade of newly popular and unique games, such as speed bingo, Joker Jackpot – a game that could be described as an amalgamation of bingo and the card game ‘Snap’ – and TV show inspired 90-ball game, Deal or No Deal Bingo.
A vibrant clickable banner represents each bingo room, with each box containing vital information about each bingo room. At a mere glance, bingo players will be informed of the time left until the next bingo game, the ticket price, the prize fund up for grabs, the player volume and the type of bingo game playing. This is a truly helpful and innovative feature, as bingo fans are able to choose a room that will suit their tastes, needs and budget within seconds.
Housing features that could alone win an award of excellence, each bingo room at Golden Hat Bingo is designed to a superb standard and has been constructed to guarantee utter simplicity without being uninteresting and dreary.
The left side of every bingo room is home to a large chat window. A place that allows you to chat with other bingo fans and put your queries and questions to helpful chat hosts, the chat tool also invites you to add fellow bingo fans and friends to a private chat list, so engaging in one-on-one chat can be enjoyed whenever friends are logged online.
The right side of each online bingo room is wholly dedicated to the bingo game itself, and thanks to a neat and nifty ticket purchaser tool, buying bingo cards has never been easier. Members can take the somewhat ‘quick-fire’ route and drag an inventive slider tool from left to right to select tickets in record time before hitting ‘purchase’, or select bingo cards in multiples of six. Of course, if you’re a bingo fan with an eye for lucky numbers, you can even hand-select tickets you want to play with from the many strips available on screen.
One thing that Golden Hat Bingo has undoubtedly accomplished is ensuring that gameplay is customisable to each bingo player. During bingo game play, members are not only able to choose the colour, shape and style of their virtual bingo dabber, they are also given the option to manually dab numbers, hide or view a grid that shows previously called numbers and zoom to enlarge the view of their tickets.
Impressive and imaginative features are certainly in abundance here, and when it comes to gameplay, no stone has been left unturned. The site recently added a long-awaited feature that now gives players the freedom to play in up to three different bingo rooms at the same time. By simply clicking ‘add’ to a bingo room of interest, the desired room will open in a narrow window below your current game and by using this convenient tool, you can insert up to three different bingo games and view their progress concurrently.
Aside from combining contemporary with simplicity to produce some of the most outstanding features to be fashioned by Virtue Fusion – the software company behind Golden Hat Bingo – this bubbly bingo site is also favoured for its great value for money, not to mention affordability, and the site is becoming increasingly popular day by day.
Throughout the week, members can treat themselves to bingo tickets that start at a dirt-cheap 1p each, with certain times of day permitting one free ticket for every ticket purchased. And although tickets are priced at pennies, do not expect the bingo jackpots to be anything but fruitful. All 11 online games rooms hold at least one large bingo jackpot that can be quite easily scooped every day, and on top of that, the parade of exciting side games have jackpots collectively worth millions of pounds.
Golden Hat Bingo have managed to create an extravagant bingo experience for those players with a not-so-extravagant bingo budget, and it’s clear that this well thought out winning recipe has not only impressed bingo players, but industry critics too.
If 2009 was anything to go by, 2010 may see this award-winning site making more room in their trophy cabinet. |
