£16,000 for just 25p

Bingopalace.co.uk has paid out a progressive bingo jackpot worth £16,273 to a player known as 'zulu22'. The is the biggest progressive jackpot that Bingopalace has paid out since the popular online bingo site was launched in 1999, and what makes it even more remarkable is that the five figure jackpot was won in a room where bingo tickets cost just 25 pence each! Only one other progressive jackpot worth more than £10,000 has ever been won in the 25p room, so a jackpot of over £16,000 is very impressive.

For those of you who aren't familiar with the concept, a progressive bingo jackpot is a jackpot that grows with every game played until it is won. Winning a progressive jackpot in a game of bingo requires the player to make a full house before a certain number of balls have been called. The precise number of balls varies from site to site, and often from room to room, but is generally low enough to give the jackpot time to grow into something substantial before being won.

The idea of winning more than £16,000 playing online bingo in a 25p room probably didn't even occur to zulu22, and when it happened it came as quite a surprise to her:

"I was excited, at the same time very scared that it was all a big mistake," she said. "Just at the same time, my husband arrived home. I screamed for him to come to me, to look at the screen to verify that it was surely right - it was. I was shaking, and couldn't decide whether I was laughing or crying. It was a moment of pure disbelief! Once again thank you all at Bingo Palace. I still have not come off cloud nine."

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30th January 2008