I t’s a Tuesday night at Buzz Bingo in Tooting, south London, and numbers are being called out at a lightning pace. But apart from the constant stream of “two and eight, twenty-eight” and the rest, the room is silent and focused. With bingo dabbers in hand, every player is hoping — dreaming — of the big win.
Even the group of twentysomethings sipping their pints in the corner. Right now bingo halls are having a revival — and not just for your grandma and her friends. On TikTok bingo videos are thriving: @bingowithbri, for instance, has more than five million likes on her videos, in which she films herself playing at her local venue in Texas.
Meanwhile, Rank Group, which runs 52 bingo venues across.
