A CWMBRAN mother who has been a regular player at the same bingo hall for 15 years has just scooped £42,000 after hitting the jackpot.
Carol Chivers, aged 51, is thinking of giving up her day job after winning at the Mecca bingo club in Monmouth Walk, Cwmbran, last week.
Mrs Chivers, who is a part-time casual packer for a Cwmbran firm, said she intends to use some of her winnings to pay for a fitted kitchen as well settling her credit card bills.
BECCI Marshall was looking for some time off.
The university student and mother of two was in the middle of assignment week and her mind needed a break from the grind of her nursing textbooks.
So, with her six-year-old at school and her two-year-old at day care, the mum, 22, of Cornubia in Logan, headed off to Southside Bingo at Upper Mt Gravatt in Brisbane for a morning of pleasant, non-taxing mental therapy.
"This was my one day off and I just felt like getting out of study mode," she said. "I find it quite relaxing."
And she's not the only one.
HOW BINGO WAS BORN
Most Bingo players don't realize that the first
bingo games can be traced back to 1530 in
Italy. It originated as a "lottery" game called,
"Lo Giuco de Lotto". Interesting, huh?
A couple of hundred years later, this type of
lottery migrated over to France in the 1700s,
it took the form of the Bingo we all know and
love today.
Bingo players at the Lions Bingo Hall on Airline Drive sat at long folding tables Wednesday afternoon and played bingo the way it's been played for years. They listened for numbers and carefully daubed their bingo cards with colored ink.
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