Palm Plaza Bingo Hall includes a video game room, a nonsmoking section and a snack bar, which serves sandwiches, candy and soft drinks. The place is mostly empty, less than 20 people, and mostly ...

Our undercover cameras caught people playing inside bingo hall "game rooms" and getting paid in cash if they won. The games we saw people playing look like high-tech slot machines or 8-liners.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Local bingo hall owners said the industry is taking a big hit as a result of growing competition of what they are calling sweepstakes or eight-liner gamer rooms. The ...

Residents, bingo hall owners take game room concerns to Commissioner's Court Nueces County Commissioner Brent Chesney asked that the question of regulating game rooms be placed on a court agenda ...

Combinations of numbers and letters droned from the sound system at Treasure City Bingo like the tolling of a bell tower. "B-4 . . . N-32 . . . I-18 . . . O-75." Alice Newman listened to the ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Non-profits and charitable bingo hall advocates are pleading with local officials to shut down area game rooms. At Tuesday’s Corpus Christi city council meeting, a ...

OLBG unveils the top 10 best bingo halls, ranked by ambience, game variety, prize money, and more, to discover which venue clinches the title between the U.K. and the U.S.

"When you start to get older it’s very good concentration for your mind," says Matarrese, 75, who spends about $100 on bingo weekly. "I enjoy the game and it’s exciting when you win the money.

More players have actually shown up to curbside bingo than they do when the game has been offered inside the hall during the pandemic, Powers said. Before the shutdown, the busiest pandemic nights ...

The pandemic was the second gut punch in a double whammy that sharply drove down attendance at the city’s half-dozen bingo halls. First came eight-liner game rooms, which like COVID-19 seemed to ...

People play bingo at the Danish Brotherhood in Ludington, Mich., on March 4, 2021. Once upon a time, there was somewhere people could go to play bingo every night of the week in Mason County, but ...