The Brazilian national soccer team has found an original way to relax between America Cup games. Americo Faria, one of the team’s supervisors, organizes bingo games for the group, which allows them to release some pressure and have fun while having the chance to win interesting prizes.

Bingo cards are green, yellow, red and blue and numbers are marked with black pens. Mr. Faria is in charge of giving the cards to the players and calling the bingo numbers. This quite uncommon bingo game has become a ritual for Brazilian players who reunite every night around a table to play.

Members of the bingo industry have called bingo fans to save Irish clubs, which have been severely affected by the smoking ban. The plea to save bingo halls was launched at Holyrood and it included the consequences of the new Gambling Act and the Vat and gambling taxes imposed on the activities of bingo operators.

Besides, the most important bingo operators in Ireland have addressed the petitions committee and urged MSPs to request the Executive a discussion of their case with Westminster.

The new sensation of the popularity charts in Great Britain is The Zimmers. But contrary to most rock bands, in this one there can be found plenty of white hair, fake teeth and titanium femur heads. Together they sum up more than 3,000 years, but that hasn’t stopped them from showing that they still have music and rebelliousness in their veins.

The initiative to create such a peculiar group came from Tim Samuels, a BBC journalist who, in his 31 years, has managed to get to the audience with stories on the most marginal groups.

Retired people have their own week, which started last Monday 28th and will last until June 3rd concluding with the traditional popular meal and festive acts of the so called “Retired’s Day”. The program has been carried out successfully with the attendance of many people.

During this week, retired people can enjoy days filled with activities, conferences, concerts, rides, chocolate-time, games. The activities started on Monday, at five in the afternoon with a recital by Aloña and some other choir people, also there was poetry reading.

If Bingo doesn’t lose any of the games still pending in the championship, they will be able to win the title without facing the playoffs, where the three teams which ended with more points will play against each other. However, this time Bingo, that won 13-0, was favored by the opponent that wasn’t motivated since they couldn’t use their usual alignment.

Katy Galeas was the winner pitcher and managed to keep their opponents in their place, they could only get her with four unstoppable.

A lucky regular bingo player, decided to test her luck this time in online gambling and she was awarded with a millionaire jackpot playing at the King Cashalot slot machine at a very popular online casino.

She had won some minor prizes playing bingo, but never one this big, that is why for quite some time she had been testing her luck in online gambling. The 32nd time was the charmed for this woman, who declared that this was the 32nd time that she logged on to the site to play.

The monopoly that belongs to the Italian State is the entity in charge of controlling the issues related to the gaming industry. They have published a law to obligate those who operate bingo rooms to forbid the entrance of those people who have not turned 18 years old yet.

It will be requested, in order to access any of the facilities of the bingo rooms, to present in the bingo lobby, an identity document that shows the age majority. In case the person does not show the mentioned document, he could be rejected and the entrance to the room could be denied.

Following the global tendency of smoking prohibition in public indoor places, the smoking ban is rapidly approaching bingo halls in the United Kingdom and it is expected that this measure will have a negative impact on them, therefore, original measures are being prepared to resist this effect.

Although the experts on the matter predict that there will be a drop in the number of people who visit bingo halls, the managers of these places will not resign themselves to just sitting down and wait, on the contrary, they have already announced some of the measures that they are going to take.

The North Dakota House has approved a tax reduction for bingo halls, in an attempt to repair some of the damage caused by the smoking ban that came into force two years ago. The prohibition forced several bingo parlors to close and players escaped to Minnesota, where smoking in public places is allowed.

The new legislation, was endorsed by the Senate and moved to Governor John Hoeven’s office. Currently, bingo games are subject to the State’s 5 percent sales tax but the provisions approved this week changes.

It has been planned to launch, soon, a new game, which will be used in cell phones. There are already many traditional games that have been adapted into this gaming method, but there are still some that are waiting to be included, such as Bingo.

It is estimated that over 200 million users will be able to spend a fun time with this game. WEC (World Entertainment Corporation) is a company dedicated to the development of software for online games and they have included into their future plans the launching of a bingo game to be used in mobiles.