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We’re entering the final month of the year, my favorite - December!
Over the years, the Elves at the BingoMania HQ have developed a tradition of fun-filled Holiday specials that are now some of the best in online Bingo.
This year, the elves are excited to get to it but want to hear what’s on your wish list too:
What Bingo Holiday Specials would you like to see at BingoMania.com?
Share your suggestions by leaving a comment below. And in the good spirit of the Holidays, the first 50 mania members to share their Bingo Wishes might just receive an early Christmas present from the Elves at BingoMania : )
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This is a guest post by GM Bill
We all had such a great time with the Halloween Contest this year that we have decided to do it once again for Christmas : )
The “2007 Christmas Name Contest” begins Saturday, December 1st!
So get those thinking caps on and get those name changes in before the end of the day on the 15th.
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To see the official rules and time line with deadlines visit my personal web page
CHRISTMAS 2007 NAME CONTEST:
Show off your creativity by selecting a new and dazzling Christmas alias for a chance at some great prizes. It’s time to put on those thinking caps and get ready for a chance to win with a new name.
Simply pick a new name that we love and you may get a very nice gift. We had some fantastic entries last Christmas and we can’t wait to see what you will come up with this year. We have added an extra twist this year and will be awarding even more prizes.
We will award name winners in several categories; most creative/original, most outrageously funny, and the “Spirit of Christmas” award.
HOW IT WORKS:
You must be an active player in Bingo Mania, Nickel Bingo.
Only one name change per account/email address is allowed. If duplicated or multiple entries are received, only the first (1st) one will be accepted and the other disqualified.
You must keep the name from the time you change it, until the end of the month. Be sure to join us in the chat rooms so the GMs can see your new name.
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My apologies for not writing more often – we’ve had a busy past couple of days with an important upgrade on our sister site BingoMania.co.uk (more on this upgrade later).
For today’s post, I would like to write about a different topic - Stress!
Most of us at one time or other, feel the strain of stress: family stress, stress at work, stress of not winning Bingo : (
On today’s post, I’d like to share with you, 5 easy ways I fight off stress. Hope you find some of these tips helpful in freeing up your mind, and boosting your physical and mental energy.
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- Laugh as much as possible
- Get a good night’s sleep.
- Do some desk exercises if you are stressed at work or while playing bingo online between games : )
- Wash away the stress with a hot shower.
- Use some of these easy relaxation techniques add more oomph to your day
These easy stress relievers have come in very handy when my stress meter reaches a level of discomfort.
If you have any techniques you use for handling stress please be sure to share them with us.
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By now, everyone knows that I love YouTube. Its endless types of content, from funny videos as we’ve seen with the Sneezing Panda - to more touching videos like this one I’d like to share with you today.
Hope you enjoy the theme behind the video. It’s for a great cause.
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Hiya everyone!
This is Olga, I’m one of the more techy members of the BingoMania family. I just wanted to drop you guys a note, in case you’ve been trying to access Bingomania.com in the past hour and can’t see it coming up. We are all here behind the scenes, working very hard to make our Bingo games available as soon as humanly possible. Thank you so much for your patience, you’re just about the best bunch of peeps ever!
Cheerios,
Olga
UPDATE: Bingomania.com is up and at em! Have a great day everybody and thank you for your patience and understanding. We have extended the 150% deposit bonus all through Sunday.
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Tallying up the votes took slightly longer than anticipated. But nevertheless, we have our winners.
As some of you know, there was a problem with the closing time of the polling station. Originally the poll was set to close at 5pm EST. Unfortunately our blog server time is set on UK time zone so 5pm EST means 9pm EST. As a result, a couple extra votes sneaked their way and slightly skewed 3rd & 4th standings as well as 5th place.
We’re not perfect. However, when we do make a mistake, we make it right. So to ensure the little time difference didn’t spoil a fun-filled promo, we’re awarding two 3rd place finishes and three 5th place finishes.
Without further ado, I present you the winners from BingoMania’s 1st Ever Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest:
Grand Prize Winner
Princess angel ($250 Amazon Gift Certificate)
2nd Place Winners
Hanutapig ($100 Amazon gift Certificate)
3rd Place (Tie)
Sunny155 - ($50 Amazon Gift Certificate)
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wicked wench - ($50 Amazon Gift Certificate)
4th & 5th (3-way Tie)
Pigaboo - $25 BB
bingo4mummy - $25 BB
HappyHOGaween - $25 BB
Congratulations!
And to show our appreciation for a job well done to our contenders who didn’t make the top 5, we will credit their accounts with a little ty bonus.
- McQueary
- BOOhooWant2Win2
- AYummyMummy
- 3TGBOO!
- LostMyBroom (unfortunately her photo never found it’s way to us : (
- Britney scares (was submitted a day too late, but you can view her pumpkin here
All bonuses will be credited before 6pm tonight and tomorrow, Kelly will be in touch with our Amazon Gift Certificate winners.
There you have it - Mania’s Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest Winners!
[update] A big thank you to “LostMyBroom” for taking the time to resend her carved pumpkin photo to us. As some of you heard, “LostMyBroom’s”photos never found their way to us, so we never got a chance to officially enter her in the contest : ( … we feel horrible and for next year’s contest, we will do our best to make sure there’s a plan B for submitting photo.
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Many thanks to everyone who sent in a photo of their carved pumpkin for BingoMania’s “Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest”. We’ve received eleven great entries and all the Pumpkins look fantastic.
Now comes the hard part, voting!
Before you vote for the best carved pumpkin, please take note of the following rules:
- You can only vote once. So take your time and vote for the one that you think deserves the vote
- To ensure your vote counts – please type the following in the comment box below “alias voted”. For example, let’s say your alias is Skippy. Simply leave a comment as Skippy Voted.
That’s it … you have until Wednesday, October 31st at 5pm to vote.
Good Luck to all of our pumpkin carving contest hopefuls.
Here are the 11 Contenders in Alphabetical Order:
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[update] Ty for all the votes! The poll is now closed. Will need until tomorrow to officially tally the votes (to ensure there was no multiple votes). The winners will be posted on this blog tomorrow morning and announced on our Friday Newsletter as well.
Once again, thanks and great job to all of our contenders
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Since Halloween is less than a week away, I thought you’d like to get the latest update on all the Halloween events here at BingoMania.com.
The Halloween Name Contest
GM Bill aka GM HeadlessLeader, has posted a full list of all the names on his personal website. You can view them here.
Pumpkin Carving Contest
Only a few days left to contest entry deadline. If you haven’t sent us a picture of your carved pumpkin, do so before Monday, October 29th or you’ll miss out on winning 1 of 5 prizes. You can send your photos to marketing@bingomania.com.
For more details on the prizes click here and for carving tips, visit here.
Halloween Tourney Details!
- 2hrs of $500 fixed games (approximately 10 games)
- Fair & Square Tournament Room
- Entry fee - $30 Package Buy-in (but sorry no bbs)
- Date: Wednesday, Oct 31st
- Time: 8pm to 10pm
- Cards: 10 cards per member, per game
- Deadline to enter 7:30PM EST Oct 31, 2007
To reserve your seat for the Fair N’ Square Tournament:
- login to BingoMania.com (forgot your login?)
- Click on the Halloween Banner on the Home Page
- Click “pre-purchase”
If you have any questions on any of the above specials, leave me a comment below.
Have a great weekend!
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I apologize for all of the down time recently. I know how much of an inconvenience this must be to many of you. However, rest assured that will be on entirely new servers within 2 weeks.
The past few days have been very stressful for everyone here at the BingoMania HQ and equally to you, our valued members. Our hard working Tech team managed to get little rusty together and we came back up Saturday.
We plan to schedule free games for everyone - will organize the details and send out an invite to all of our members. We’re thinking four (4) hours of free games. But we want to make sure we plan this free roll right so little rusty doesn’t go down again. Will work out the plan tomorrow and provide you further details…so please stay tuned.
In the meantime, to make it up to you, we’re crediting all of our members account with $10 free. So any member that has funded at least once in the last 3 months, will see a $10 free in their account.
THE FREE CREDIT SHOULD BE IN YOUR ACCOUNTS BETWEEN 5:00PM-6:00PM - SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21ST –
Please note – the credit will be awarded upon login. So around 5pm, logout and log back in to your bingomania.com account.
Once again, my apology for not communicating earlier…
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Hello,
Our apology if you’ve tried to access BingoMania.com today - we’re currently experiencing some downtime and are working hard to make the site available to you in the shortest time possible.
To explain to you what’s happening, we figured we introduce you to Little Rusty:
I’m Mania’s server, Little Rusty. We’ve met before but I don’t think we’ve been formally introduced. Lately, I haven’t been so nice and have annoyed you on many occasions.
I might only be a software but I am embarrassed and I do feel I’ve let everyone down – you, the team and even Toji.
There are no words to explain how deeply sorry I am for my behaviour. Please do accept my apology and know that Olga, Shawn and Billy and the entire tech team at Mania are trying their best to fix me. I’m going to do my best to keep strong and get myself back up so you can enjoy all the goodies I hear that are stored for you this weekend at BingoMania.com.
In the meantime, I hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me : (
Very sorry again,
Mania Server
Little Rusty
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