Sign up

Signing up to Sun Bingo is relatively straight forward however it differs a little from other bingo sites in that you need to enter your credit or debit card details and deposit your first £10 as part of the sign up process. However, once you do this you will automatically be eligible for Sun's £10 sign up bonus, doubling your money from the word go.

Design

Decked out in the newspaper's signature red and white colour scheme, Sun Bingo's website is based on a very simple, block colour design which, while less technical looking that some of the other bingo sites around, does the job perfectly well.

Navigating around the site is really simple as links to each of Sun's bingo clubs and games are the main feature on the home page and there is very little other detail to detract from this.

Once inside one of Sun's bingo clubs, the bright yellow and red colour scheme really makes the games stand out and, with the same design and layout used in each of the clubs, switching between games rooms is really quite simple.

Usability

Sun Bingo's simplistic layout will make you feel at home right away not least because its so easy to navigate around.

Each of the games have a comprehensive 'How to Play' guide which explains all the basics from how to purchase tickets, to how jackpots are calculated. This is a really useful feature especially for bingo newbies and one that not many other sites include.

Moving around the Sun Bingo site is simple as all bingo clubs and games are accessible via links on the home page and, once you're in a games room, you only need to click on the mini 'house' icon in the bottom right hand corner of the site and you'll be taken back to the 'lobby'.

To make watching your potential winnings easy, Sun Bingo automatically order tickets with the best first. They also select 'Autodab' automatically on all games so that you can concentrate on chatting, however it's easy to change this to manual using the 'Autodab' on/off switch if you'd prefer. You can also change the colour of your dabber and the text in your chat box too, you do this by clicking on one of the colour buttons detailed on the page.

Instead of running different promotions on different games Sun Bingo fix ticket prices in each of their clubs (10p for 90 ball, 25p for 80 ball and 10p for 75 ball) so that they can focus on providing great jackpots all the time. While this does mean that you miss out on some of the excitement that playing for a pre-determined massive jackpots brings, it does mean that with their constant progressive jackpots and link games you're much more likely to score a big win.

Games

Sun Bingo are one of the few sites to offer 90, 75 and the more unusual 80 ball bingo and so really spoil you for choice. For 90 ball fanatics there are 5 clubs and 15 rooms to choose from, while 75 ball and 80 ball games each have their own dedicated club.

Unfortunately, Sun Bingo don't offer instant games like many of their competitors. Instead they run 3 'major' games alongside their bingo rooms, these are 'Hamster Races', 'Battleships' and a card game called 'CINCO'. Each of these games has its own chat room and also has great prizes to be won so they're definitely worth a play.

Jackpots

Play with Sun Bingo and you stand a good chance of scoring a really big win, they claim to have paid out over £130million in jackpots so far!

In all bingo rooms the regular jackpot depends completely on the number of players however a special jackpot is available in the 75 ball room that could see you winning £500 if you manage to complete the designated shape before Sun's red jackpot countdown disappears. The 90 ball clubs also run a shared progressive jackpot that starts from £500 and often ventures into the thousands, you can win by getting full house in under 40 calls.

To give you an even bigger chance of winning big, link games are played in the 90 ball clubs every half an hour. During a link game all 5 clubs link together to form one giant prize pool that you can play for by buying tickets in any of the 90 ball rooms. Between 2am and 9am all rooms are linked permanently so that you can still win big even when there are fewer members online.

Chat

Sun Bingo offer a total of 19 chat rooms and regardless of whether you're in one of the two 75, two 80 or fifteen 90 ball rooms you'll be greeted by a very welcoming community and really lively chat.

Their CMs are particularly helpful (you can identify them in chat by the red writing they use) and run chat games every few minutes to keep things interesting. Taking part in these chat games is really worthwhile as you can win a £1 a go, however you can only win a maximum of £2 a day (starting from 4am) but that's still up to 20 tickets for free. Sun Bingo have a comprehensive guide to the chat games their CMs will use and this is accessible from the home page if you want to familiarise yourself with the rules first.

Support

Sun Bingo have a really comprehensive 'Help' section that takes you step by step through almost everything you need to know about the site. If you have a question they haven't managed to answer here you can contact them either by phone between 9am and 10pm every day (they aim to answer all calls within 30 seconds) or by email. It's always worth putting any of your questions to the CMs as they know the site really well and so may be able to help.

Security

They guarantee your security while playing on the Sun Bingo site and use secure server software, approved by online security leader Thawte, to encrypt any personal details you enter.

As an added measure you will be asked to set a security question that Sun bingo will use to confirm your identity and stop other people from using your bingo account.