White Rose Bingo Review

White Rose Bingo has a welcoming name. It’s got that in its favour at least. Working against it however is the entire look and feel of the place. This is a dated site, one that could badly use a makeover. You won’t find a responsive, mobile-friendly site here. Instead you’ll encounter one where the the colours are a muted grey and the whole affair feels muted and subdued. There’s a clunky looking Twitter logo and a top menu that’s hard to read due to the background it’s superimposed over. For the record, grey doesn’t go well with grey.

The featured image on the slider depicts a glamorous looking lady in red sprawled out seductively as if contemplating the mad sums she’s poised to pocket from playing at White Rose Bingo. That may be the case – it’s certainly possible to win big here – but whether you would want to is another matter. The fact that the site’s Twitter account, the very same account to feature in the homepage header, hasn’t been updated since 2013 gives you an idea of what kind of a site this is. All that’s missing is the tumbleweed.

About White Rose Bingo

White Rose Bingo is operated by Cassava Enterprises Limited. This was clearly one of their earlier attempts at online bingo, for they’ve certainly produced better efforts than this. The information regarding the site’s ownership can be found in the footer, where it messily spills onto the page below. That’s the sort of badly designed site this is, one that does nothing to make you want to sign up and get involved. Cassava Enterprises are based in Gibraltar, from where they hold a license issued by the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner.

The company’s services in the UK are handled by parent group 888 UK Limited. They’re licensed by the Great Britain Gambling Commission, enabling White Rose Bingo to target British-based players. It’s unlikely that many of them have responded to that call however based on the sorry state of White Rose Bingo. All of the games to be played on the site, aside from bingo, have been independently tested to ensure fair play and honest payouts.

Banking’s All White

In classic Cassava Enterprises fashion, there is no information available about deposits. Instead, you’re notified about withdrawals only in the FAQ. Withdrawals take 48 hours to be processed followed by another 2-3 working days minimum before funds show up in your account. They’ll be discreetly billed as coming from Cassava Enterprises Ltd. Your withdrawal options are credit or debit card including MasterCard, cheque, Neteller, wire transfer and the most popular online payment service, PayPal. You can probably use the same options for deposits save for cheque and wire transfer.

The Bonuses are All White, Too!

Your welcome bonus at White Rose Bingo comes in the form of a 100% first deposit match worth up to £100. Deposit a minimum of £10 to claim this offer. There’s a 4x wagering requirement before bonus cash can be withdrawn and the most bonus cash you can withdraw is £400. A generic Cassava Enterprises promotions page doesn’t offer much by way of enticing bonuses or offers. There’s talk of a game called Late Night Show, which operates at 1am. 50 players can take part, competing for £100 in prizes. There’s also the potential to win loyalty points in the monthly 2 Million Race. This is a prize draw in which 40 lucky players will share the two million points that are awarded.

Another promotion named Weekender awards £700 in bingo cash prizes. There’s also a big jackpot game called The Big £10,000, which appears to be the main draw on the site. Otherwise, small scale wins can be picked up in Happy Hour between 4pm and 6pm. There’s also a Sure Win and Sure Win 2 game, hosted on the 1st and 15th of the month, in which everyone is guaranteed to win something. Finally, there are two bingo games mentioned that are listed on all Cassava Enterprises bingo sites and they are Grab a Grand and Zodiac Bingo. The latter has a jackpot of £1,111 on the line and both games operate once a month.

Familiar Bingo Choices

There are three types of bingo that can be played at White Rose Bingo, 90-ball, 75-ball and High Five bingo. Complete playing guides are provided, although most players should already be familiar with these. Within each game type, there is a range of games in terms of jackpot and cost of entry. Tickets range in price between 1p and £1, with the most expensive games usually those that have a progressive jackpot. While there is no guarantee that the progressive pot will be won in any singular bingo game, it has to be won eventually and will keep rolling over and growing steadily until someone claims it.

The coverall jackpot games, on the other hand, have a guaranteed sum at stake that must be won. You’ll get three opportunities to claim a piece of the prize pot if you’re playing 90-ball bingo, one opportunity if you’re playing the 75-ball game and five opportunities if you’re playing High Five bingo. There are free games hosted on the site too. These are generally open to players who have made a deposit in the past week. If that’s you, get involved, savouring the simple pleasure of a game where you can relax in the knowledge that win or lose it hasn’t cost you a penny.

Other Ways to Amuse Yourselves

There are other means of amusing yourself at White Rose Bingo, primarily by playing slots. These are the same old slots that surface at all Cassava Enterprises sites, and there are a few good games in the mix. Try the likes of Starburst, Fluffy Favourites, Jack and the Beanstalk and Gonzo’s Quest. You also have games such as Kronos, Bruce Lee 2 and the X-Factor video slot. There are probably some mini games and scratch cards to accompany these. The slots should work on mobile though it’s hard to say for certain because this information isn’t stated anywhere.

White Rose Conclusion

It’s really hard to see why you might want to sign up at White Rose Bingo. Just look at the thing. Yeah, it works for the purposes of playing bingo and slots, but there are so many other sites that work way better. Sites where the footer information doesn’t spill of the page, sites where the full page width is used and sites that have been designed with mobile users in mind. The promotions are dull and generic, the deposit options are unspecified and the Twitter page hasn’t been updated in more than four years.

If White Rose Bingo don’t care about their own site then why should you? Cassava Enterprises haven’t exactly covered themselves in glory with this effort. It might have been a passable bingo site a few years ago, but today White Rose Bingo just doesn’t work.