A woman from Brighouse, who requested not to be identified, completed a full house in 40 numbers and won the national bingo prize of £100,000 at the Mecca Club in Huddersfield. She is the mother of two children and apparently doesn’t play bingo very often.

Tringo, a cross between Tetris and bingo, started as a Second Life game and became popular very quickly. Its creator, Nathan Keir from New Zealand, was frustrated by the arbitrary aspect of bingo and invented “Tringo” as an alternative.

For the first time in the history of the World Cup, players and referees will be compelled to sign an agreement that neither them nor their families will bet on matches. This was announced today by Fifa’s President, Joseph Blatter.

In a recent poll, the majority of Canadians said that they see gambling as a fun and acceptable form of entertainment. The poll was carried out by PMG Consulting of Waterloo and also showed that most Canadian players are responsible gamblers who abide by a fixed budget.

The giant Mexican media company Televisa is planning to open 10 bingo rooms and houses of bets in 2006, investing 4.5 million dollars per establishment, according to Alfonso de Angoitia, vice president of the firm.

GTECH Holdings Corporation announced that incomes for the first four months of the current year have reached $368,3 million; that is 9% more than the incomes registered in the same period of 2005.

Officials of a Bingo hall in Scotland announced that the club installed new bingo machines, which help people with a limited vision to play and enjoy the game. During a game, The Electronic Dabber (TED) machine has each number called “beamed” to players. Players must press a button after each call and if the number is on their card, it is automatically registered.

Two gaming facilities are being developed by the Muckleshoot Tribe near Auburn, Washington, one of which is a new Bingo Hall. The property under construction is being built on the Muckleshoot Reservation. The plan is that this Bingo Hall will operate opposite the Muckleshoot Casino, right across the street, and that the traditional tribal casino will no longer exist.

Two kidnapping suspects, a man and a woman, were recently arrested at the Spotlight 29 Casino, in Coachella, California. Fernando Parada Laborin and Adriana Yesenia Arana, both 30 and residents of Phoenix, Arizona, were taken under police custody for kidnapping two Mexican citizens.

Welcome to ''Ognib Drag Brunch," the name given to the regular Sunday afternoon event at the Randoplh Country Club in Boston. That's “Ognib”, as in Bingo spelled backwards. And Drag, as in drag queen.