Wink Bingo run a “Win a Mini Cooper” bingo promotion at their online bingo site at the end of 2008, which in turn lead to mum of two, Joanne Kane from Werneth, Oldham in Lancashire, driving off in a brand new Mini Cooper worth a whopping £16,000! This is one good luck story that is hard to beat, as Joanne just could not believe her luck when the numbers rolled her way, making her the first ever winner of a brand new car from playing at Wink Bingo online.

Joanne Kane was in for more than she bargained for though when taking part in the Mini Cooper online bingo game at Wink Bingo because there were some exciting twists and turns to this game before the grand prize was actually won. When the “Win a Mini Cooper” bingo game played on 1st January 2009, two players called house on this game in the exact same amount of calls, so for the first time ever in the history of Wink Bingo one of their big prize bingo games was declared a draw, which meant a play-off game needed to be scheduled to decide the overall winner.

This dramatic bingo game became a bit of a bingo battle between North and South England, because the other player in the running to win the Mini Cooper Car, was Christine from Toot Hill, Swindon in Wiltshire. Another first for Wink Bingo was allowing these two players to pick their own numbers for the grand play off bingo game, and it was picking her lucky numbers that resulted in Joanne winning the car. She used the date she passed her driving test and her children’s birthdays (no 9 and no 11).

Lucky Mini Cooper Winner, Joanne Kane said, "I've never won anything in my life," she said, "you hear about it happening to other people, but you never think it will happen to you. It was so exciting; I screamed and screamed and screamed. The kids were screaming, the dog was going mad. I can't explain how wonderful it felt."

You can see a podcast clip of Joanne picking up her brand new Mini Cooper Car, by checking out the Viral ads part of Wink Bingo online, and this gives you an in-depth account of what it was like for the lucky lady when she first come face to face with her BMW Mini!