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If you know anything about Paddy Power as a bookies then you won't be surprised to know that they ruddy loving giving away money or free games. There are a few promotions for every week day, the weekend and a sign up bonus to boot. The sign up bonus is for £20 but you only have to deposit £5 which is a bargain and to top that they also have a newbies room where there are hundreds of pounds of free games to play. The daily ones include Wintry Wonderland where you can win scratch cards which have up to £200K on them, the Bingo Linx where all the rooms link up for a prize pot of £7.5K, the Last Chance Saloon which gives away scratch cards to losers and 1TG and 2TG games where you don't even have to be a winner to win.

The week day promotions work thusly-

Monday - From 7-11pm in the Gold Room, there's Monday Magic with a series of eight gradually increasing jackpots totalling over £6.5K and culminating with a £1K bingo game. Also there is Money Back Monday where there are three £100 games in the Sapphire room which you either win or get your tickets refunded as bonus bucks to spend on more bingo.

Tuesday - Cheap Ticket Tuesday is the alliteration of choice here with 1p, 2p and 5p tickets available. They also have a similar deal to Monday with money back for losers in the 1TG games though they couldn't alliterate a title to that.

Wednesday - I think they got bored by Wednesday as it is merely Jackpot Wednesday though they do slightly redeem themselves with Winning Wednesday where you can get star points (explained later) for as little as 50p. Thursday - Big Bucks Thursday continues the trend of lazy titling but big money.

Friday - Friday Night Fever is much better where you can boogy your way to £20K. It doesn't actually say if dancing improves your chances of winning but surely it can't hurt.

Weekend - If you can't get enough of X-factor then they even have P-factor parties in the bingo room here. Good god. Stellar Sunday's deliver double Star point as well.

The Lab seems to be the most innovative thing on the site, a chance for players to come up with their own schedule and games in a specific room at a specific time. Sounds like the market researchers at Paddy getting lazy but what better way to get new ideas than from the people who will be using it.

Paddy's Reward Programme refers to the stars mentioned earlier and it is pretty simple to understand. The more star points you get, the higher level you get and the more rewards you get. You can earn star points through playing games and you can have a whopping 20,000 points for being roomie of the week.

No review of this site could be complete without a mention of the Pet of the Week feature. A sight to behold.