{"id":1816,"date":"2020-04-15T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newbingosites.co\/?page_id=1816"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:56:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T17:56:12","slug":"what-are-bingo-jackpots","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newbingosites.co\/articles\/what-are-bingo-jackpots\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Bingo Jackpots? Fixed, Progressive, Escalator & Community Jackpots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bingoAs much as we all love the social aspect of playing bingo, there’s no doubting the fact that it’s really exciting to actually win from time to time.<\/p>\n

As an\u00a0overall a game of chance,\u00a0the prize\u00a0really is anyone’s for the taking, so that\u00a0nice juicy jackpot really could be yours at any point.<\/p>\n

Whether you’re playing in\u00a0a live bingo hall, or on your favourite online bingo site, the jackpots can vary depending upon lots of different factors.<\/p>\n

Prizes can range from anything under the \u00a310 mark, right up to the stratospheric heights of well over a million pounds on some games. The highest online jackpot win recorded to date was won on the Butlers Bingo<\/a> website in 2012,\u00a0where the lucky\u00a0winner-John Orchard scooped up a whopping \u00a35.9 million in prize funds.<\/p>\n

When playing bingo online or in a bingo hall, there are also various different types of bingo jackpot up for grabs too. You may have signed up to a bingo site and seen phrases such as ‘the progressive jackpot’ or ‘the community jackpot’ etc and wondered what the difference was between them all?<\/p>\n

Below we’ve created an article to break down all the different types of jackpots that you may come across when playing, particularly online, so you’ll have a bit more knowledge when trying your luck out on your next game.<\/p>\n

The ‘Fixed’ Bingo Jackpot<\/h2>\n

\"fixedThe fixed jackpot is basically a standard prize pot. It’s one of the most common types of jackpot used throughout the gaming industry across the world, and in all honesty, it really is what it says on the tin.<\/p>\n

It’s a fixed amount of money which you will be playing towards winning during each game. In nearly all cases you will know what the exact figure is even before you sign up, and that will always be the prize fund regardless of the following factors:<\/p>\n