More and more bingo players may be headed online, but the landed game continues to appeal to a new generation: that’s according to the BBC. 

A trip by BBC News reporter John Devine to Buzz Bingo in Peterborough found a number of young players adamant that the game continued its appeal throughout the Gen Z demographic. 

“One of the first things I wanted to do when I turned 18 was experience real live bingo,” 18-year old Aleska Svencika told the reporter last week. “I am quite competitive and I found my eyes couldn’t scan the card quickly enough – but I think I got the hang of it.”

Meanwhile her friend Lucy Lonnen, also 18, said that her presence was proof that “bingo is not just for older people.” 

The Beeb headed to the Peterborough hall as, following the recent closure of Winners Bingo in Wisbech, Buzz Peterborough is now the last bingo centre left operating in Cambridgeshire. 

National Bingo Game Association Miles Baron explained post-Covid budgetary measures had taken their toll: making it “difficult for smaller independent bingo clubs to survive.” 

But Buzz Peterborough manager Dan Shuttleworth countered that the sector was merely “evolving,” and would “survive long into the future.”