Posted on: February 13, 2026, 07:10h.
Last updated on: February 13, 2026, 07:10h.
- Circus Circus has returned live bingo to the Strip for the first time since 2015
- The 255-seat venue focuses on vintage nostalgia with paper cards and manual daubers
- Daily sessions offer cash prizes up to $1,500 with $30 full session packages
Circus Circus has brought bingo back to the Las Vegas Strip for the first time in more than a decade. The setting is a large room on the casino hotel’s second floor that accommodates 255 players. ((Vital Vegas reports it was formerly used for storage.) Opening day was Friday the 13th, a strangely unlucky day for a numbers.
Circus Circus’ game is an unapologetic throwback to a pre-smartphone era when paper bingo cards were marked by human hands with daubers as balls got blown out of bingo blowers.
Five sessions a day kick off at 3 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays. Each features 14 games, including traditional bingo, a bonus game, and a coverall.
Guests can purchase a full session package for $30 and can purchase additional cards. Prizes are paid in cash, with payouts spanning from $50 to $1,500.
Complementing the time warp are hot dogs, pretzels, nachos, beer and cocktails, the staples of bingo nights gone by, though at 2025 prices.
“There’s never been a better time to bring bingo back to the Las Vegas Strip,” said Circus Circus GM Shana Gerety in a statement.
Bingo is restricted to guests 21 years of age and older.
Bingo’s Star
Bingo never really left Las Vegas. Locals still play at off-Strip joints such as Palace Station (which was preceded by the Bingo Palace), Red Rock, South Point, Cannery and the Suncoast (where regulars play in a 9,170 square-foot hall underneath a 17-foot bouncing bingo ball chandelier).
But on the Strip, the game flatlined when the Riviera closed in 2015 — after filling the bingo void left by the Frontier’s 2007 closure.
The lottery-style game of chance — in which numbers are randomly drawn and players compete to be first to complete a winning pattern and yell, “Bingo!” — will never give baccarat or blackjack a run for its money.
However, paired with Circus Circus’ rare free parking near the hall’s entrance in the Skyrise Towers, it promises to lure thousands of older locals back into the fading clown house who haven’t been to the Strip in years — in addition to a few nostalgic tourists.
Accidental Nostalgia
The addition of bingo also helps Circus Circus lean into the accidental monopoly it now has on old-school Las Vegas nostalgia. It achieved this monopoly simply by being the oldest remaining Strip casino hotel whose original buildings weren’t all demolished — both the Flamingo’s and Sahara’s were — and by neglecting to upgrade most of its games for decades while it was owned by MGM Resorts. (Casino mogul Phil Ruffin purchased it for $825 million in 2019.)
The casino, which opened in 1968, now leans into its old school vibe. For instance, it is now the only property on the Strip to still feature coin-operated slots, a bank of which were recently played near the entrance to the new bingo hall.
