A bingo player at Centrale in Croydon scooped an incredible £50,000 prize earlier this month – the third national game jackpot to be called by Mecca Bingo’s Altex Gibson, who has been working at the venue for 20 years.
Prize venue: Centrale’s bingo club has enjoyed its recent success
“When I told her that she’d actually triggered the £50,000 jackpot, she was in shock,” Gibson told Inside Croydon.
Mecca says that their latest, lucky winner is a regular customer at their bingo club on Tamworth Road. The winner, who asked to remain anonymous, was playing with a group of friends when her numbers came up in National Bingo Game.
In that game, the £50,000 jackpot is triggered when a player matches all the numbers on their ticket and claims “house” within the first 16 numbers being called.
“Fridays are one of our busiest nights,” Gibson said.
Numbers game: Mecca caller Altex Gibson
“The winner was playing on one of our electronic tablets and when she saw she had a full house she hit the ‘claim button’. But what she hadn’t realised was that she’d completed her ticket on the 15th call.
“She was really happy with the smaller full house club prize, but when I told her that she’d actually triggered the £50,000 jackpot she was in shock. In fact, I think she’s probably still in shock now!
“It’s the third time that I’ve had the honour of telling someone that they’ve won the £50,000 jackpot. I may have been here for 20 years, but it still feels good when someone wins that amount of money – we get the champagne out and everyone is shouting and clapping.”
According to Mecca, their Croydon winner is the sixth person to scoop the £50,000 jackpot in the first couple of weeks of 2025.
The National Bingo Game is played across the country. It is played twice a day, every day, 364 days a year at all Mecca clubs.
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