Spectra Bingo Review

If you’re female and partial to a spot of bingo, Spectra Bingo might just be your kind of place. Admittedly you don’t have to be a woman to appreciate this upbeat bingo site, but given that its featured slider is stocked with cartoonish superwoman types grinning gleefully, it’s safe to assume that this is the audience that Spectra Bingo is aimed at. It doesn’t take trained powers of deduction to reach such a conclusion, for all of these bingo sites are targeted at women. Fluffy white clouds and flying bingo balls are a common theme at sites such as these and you’ll find no shortage of them here to peruse.

Some elements of this site look pretty enticing, like the thumbnail images of the various slots that are available, which feature prominently on the homepage. Others, such as the links to the site’s social channels, which also feature prominently on the homepage, are best avoided altogether. The Twitter account was last updated in 2015. What’s more, Spectra Bingo wrote a grand total of seven tweets before giving up on it. Lame. Then there’s the Facebook page, which was last updated in early 2016 and has a grand total of 24 likes. Also lame. There are a lot of things that sites owned by Cassava Enterprises do badly, and social media is one of them.

About Spectra Bingo

Cassava Enterprises, the operators of Spectra Bingo, have bitten off more than they can chew in taking on hundreds or perhaps thousands of bingo sites, few of which they seem able to find the willpower to update. On the surface, Spectra Bingo looks functional enough, but once you scrutinise it, the cracks begin to appear. It’s a shame, because from a user perspective, this site is easy to navigate and works well on mobile. And yet, in a site whose social channels virtually have tumbleweed blowing across them, you can only assume that there’s absolutely no sense of a vibrant bingo community here whatsoever.

For the record, Cassava Enterprises Ltd are a Gibraltar based company who are licensed and regulated by the Gibraltar Gambling Commissioner. The site is licensed to offer its services in the UK via 888 UK Ltd who are the parent company of Cassava Enterprises and are licensed by the Great Britain Gambling Commission. Finally, Virtual Digital Services Ltd, another affiliated company, are licensed to offer Spectra Bingo’s services to players based in the EU.

Banking at the Footer

As always with Cassava Enterprises, you’re best not bothering to hunt around for a banking page, cos you invariably won’t find one. Instead, skip to the footer and check out the payment provider logos that scroll past. Here you’ll find that your deposit options are Visa, MasterCard, Maestro, Entropay, PayPal, Paysafecard and Neteller. You’ll be able to use these options to withdraw funds too, save for Paysafecard. Additional deposit options are bank transfer and cheque. In terms of timeframe, it’ll take 48 hours for your withdrawal request to be processed.

After that, there’ll be a 2-3 day wait before funds show up on your account in the case of UK MasterCard and Neteller. Other options will take longer – as much as 10 days in the case of cheque or bank transfer. When you’re making your first withdrawal, you may be required to submit identification documents such as a copy of your card or proof of your residential address.

A Few Bonuses

There are a couple of bonuses that are promoted on the featured slider at Spectra Bingo. This includes a 400% welcome bonus that will give you £50 to play with when you deposit £10. This appears to be divided evenly between slots and bingo; it’s hard to say for sure because the smallprint is too small and the slider moves too fast to confirm this. There’s an 80x wagering requirement before this cash can be withdrawn; presumably this is referring to the slots, but again it’s hard to tell due to the way the featured slider operates.

A few other promotions are displayed on the homepage including the monthly Zodiac Bingo game, which has a £1,111 jackpot and is a promo that’s offered at all Cassava Enterprises websites. There’s also a £1 million jackpot game that will be available at all of the sites connected to the same bingo network as Spectra Bingo. Head to the promotions page of Spectra Bingo and you’ll find the usual generic bonus offers and bingo games that are available at all Cassava Enterprises sites. These include Happy Hour, which operates between 4pm and 6pm on Mondays, and the Grab a Grand bingo game, which is hosted monthly.

Bingo Games at Spectra

While the bingo games available at Spectra Bingo aren’t anything out of the ordinary – indeed they’re identical to those found at all other sites by this operator – at least they’re set out nicely here. 90-ball and 75-ball bingo are the two types of games to be savoured here, but within these game types there’s a lot of variety, ranging from free bingo games, where the prizes are worth a couple of quid at the most, to the progressive jackpot games whose prizes can run into the thousands of pounds.

Whatever game type you choose depends on what you’re used to and also on whether you’re fixed on the jackpot or are willing to settle for a lesser prize; in the 90-ball game, there are three ways to win after all, and even one line will be enough to secure a prize. Full house – achieved by completing three lines – is the aim of the game though and it is here that the real money lies. The site also offers High Five Bingo, a variant that’s especially popular in Scandinavia and where there’s five ways to win and where lines can be completed horizontally, vertically and diagonally.

Spectra Bingo Conclusion

Spectra Bingo is a mixed bag. It’s a site that looks reasonably good, and which is easy to browse. But at the same time, it’s a site that has clearly been abandoned or partially abandoned in certain respects, not least when it comes to its social channels. Admittedly, a working Twitter and Facebook page aren’t required for you to enjoy the games on offer at Spectra Bingo, but they are indicative of a site where there is unlikely to be much by way of updates or effort put into maintaining it and into offering new games or promotions. As a consequence, Spectra Bingo can be filed under ‘Best Avoided’. There are certainly a lot worse sites on the web from this operator, but still, you’d do far better so seek out a bingo site that appears to be a going concern, one that shows it cares about its players.