Much was made of Circus Circus’ recent announcement they were bringing live bingo back to the Strip. Any update as to how it’s doing?
Circus Circus opened its new vintage-style bingo hall, called Lucky’s Bingo Room, in mid-February, marking the first bingo hall on the Las Vegas Strip in over a decade (since the Riviera closed in 2015). It's located on the second-floor Promenade Level through a door at the back of the Skyrise casino near the entrance to the Adventuredome theme park, described as a 'lightly repurposed' space with new carpeting and paint.
Lucky's has a capacity of 255 players per session, making it among the smaller bingo rooms in the city. By comparison, the room at the Gold Coast accommodates 720 players (the one at Foxwoods in Connecticut has space for 2,200). Jerry's Nugget and Silver Sevens rooms have around 200 seats.
As for how it's been doing in its first two months or so, we have only anecdotal feedback from visitors on social media, Instagram reels, and YouTube. We couldn't find any public posts directly commenting on crowd sizes, so we were reduced to inferring moderate turnout that doesn't generate strong buzz, such as "Wow, the joint was jumping" or "Jeez, the venue was completely vacant."
We found one YouTube video that gives a glimpse through the front doors at the backs of a few players.
Since Circus is privately owned (by Phil Ruffin), we'll never see any numbers from the place and no games are broken down by property in the Gaming Control Board's monthly reports, only by jurisdiction. So unless someone reading this who's been to Lucky's can comment on it, unfortunately, that's about as good as it'll get until we stop by and take a look for ourselves, which we're meaning to do.
