Mecca Bingo! Religious connotations aside, the name Mecca is synonymous with the game of bingo, and at meccagames.com they have brought their popular take on the game to the online community. The site, as you might expect, is designed with the familiar Mecca logo and colour scheme, with plenty of blue and pink to please the eye. The home page is well laid out and easy to navigate.

Mecca Bingo looks and feels exactly as you would imagine. The branding, colours and ease of play are all evident here. Once you click through you will have to open an account which is very easy to do and only requires the minimum of information and then you're done.
Opening an account is a simple affair, requiring the usual input of your name, address and credit or debit card details. The minimum deposit here is £10, and with a strip of six boards costing £1.50, this is enough for six nail-biting games.

Best things about Mecca Bingo:
Deposit £10 and get £10 free – instantly double your money
Millionaire Bingo - full house with 30 calls for £1,000,000
Big Bingo Thursday - guaranteed £17,000 in prizes
Regular prize draws for weekends away
Very friendly site with great chat rooms

Game cards usually cost 25p but some of the special games have them for as low as 10p and of course there are others that are more expensive but the jackpots are significantly higher. The game cards are exactly like traditional bingo strips. You must get one line, two lines or full house within each game to win a prize. The prizes are highlighted in the left hand box.

Mecca have done their best to give their site a bit of auditory ambience by embedding a loop of “communal muttering” noise into the background. Whilst this brings a smile to the face at the beginning of a game, it can get extremely annoying after a while. Unfortunately, the mute option on the page doesn’t just silence the muttering, but also the bingo caller, so your choice is to play with the background cacophony playing as you listen to the caller or playing in total silence. A more user-friendly middle way would have been preferable. It may not have all of the graphical wizardry of some other sites but this is a true to traditional bingo as you'll get and with games and jackpots every three minutes, you can't really ask for more.