Reviews

A bingo game replaces numbers with letters and takes all the fun away along with it. Rather than normal bingo you have to go through the alphabet backwards and then determine which of the six cards was filled first. Lacks any sense to have any lasting appeal.

WOW! Bingo with letters instead of numbers! HOW EXCITING!! Actually no it's a waste of time because bingo this ain't.

Usually in normal bingo a number gets called out in a novelty sort of manner like 44 Droopy Drawers (and you thank Bob Monkhouse for my knowledge of that), and you then mark it on your card and the first one to fill the cards entirely shouts BINGO from the top of their lungs wins a prize and contracts laryngitis in the process.

So do we get the same game with Letter Bingo...no...instead we have six cards filled with random letters and instead of a letter being called out you have to...wait for it...go through the alphabet in desending order starting from Z and then attempt to correctly guess the number of the card filled first...so this is not bingo at all and thus it doesn't work, and thus it is quite inane.

Essentially it's more like Sudoku with letters, except it isn't, because everything's filled for you, and thus it doesn't work, and thus it is quite inane, and thus I'm getting a headache now because I'm repeating myself!

I suppose a name like "Letter Cards" or "Alphabet Squares" would be more appropriate but not bloody bingo because this is not bingo, this is bait, bait to lure Spectrum enthusiasts like me to play a quite rubbish game such as this.

Oh and when you eventually guess correctly you are treated to a beep rendition of Cliff Richard's Congratulations...oh crikey my headache!