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Putting someone else before themselves has just won one very deserving lady more than £300,000 on the high five jackpot game at Gala Bingo in Brighton. The care worker, who asked to remain anonymous took the lady she was looking after out for an afternoon at the bingo and from bingo tickets costing just £2.50 to purchase won her this massive jackpot prize. Plus the other 239 bingo players that were participating in the high five jackpot game at Gala Bingo in Fresh field Way at the same time were also quid’s in as they all equally shared the other half of this big bingo jackpot win between them.
It seems like that old saying “third time lucky” may have played a part in this spectacular Gala Bingo win because the lucky lady had only ever played bingo twice before. The rules of the revolutionary high five jackpot game at Gala Bingo states that the winner shares half the jackpot prize at whatever it stands at the time of their bingo win with all the other people taking part in the high five bingo game at the bingo club that are playing in and out of the 320 players in attendance during the afternoon session of bingo only 239 people actually took part in this game, which meant they all picked up cheques for £1,265 each.
Paul Morgan, who is the assistant manager at Gala Bingo in Brighton, said: “It was actually quite amazing. Everything went quiet for a minute and then the whole place erupted. The winner was sitting right at the back of the hall and she couldn’t move from her seat for about 20 minutes. She was trembling and couldn’t talk. We tried to give her a drink but she couldn’t pick up the glass. She later told us this was only the third time she had ever played bingo.”
One of the bingo players at Gala Bingo, Dorothy Emburey, 67, from Warren Crescent in Littlehampton, who took a share of this great cash prize, said: “We do a tour of the bingo halls and we haven’t seen a win like this. I’m very grateful to the lady who won”.
The high five jackpot at Gala Bingo is a progressive jackpot which keeps on growing until it is won and it was sitting at just over £700,000 at the time it was won last Wednesday afternoon. To win this huge jackpot prize you need to call house on the high five jackpot bingo game on the number (5) but smaller wins can also be had by calling on any number ending in the number 5.
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