Tombola Sister Sites

Short answer: yes, tombola has a sister site, but its licensed family is unusually small. The bingo site you know at tombola.co.uk shares its UK operating licence with just one other brand, Tombola Arcade. Both are run by the same Gibraltar company and both belong to the Flutter Entertainment group, which is also home to Sky Bingo, Paddy Power and Betfair. So tombola is neither a lone operator nor part of a sprawling white-label stable. It is a single well-known British bingo brand with one true same-licence sibling, sitting under a very large corporate parent.

Who actually runs tombola

The company you are really dealing with is Tombola (International) Plc, registered in Gibraltar and holding UK Gambling Commission account number 38613. That account carries active remote bingo and remote casino licences, which is what allows it to offer both the bingo rooms and the arcade games to players in Britain. When you deposit at tombola, this is the licensed operator taking your money.

You may come across a second, similar-sounding entry on the register: Tombola Limited (account 36834), based in Birmingham. That one holds only a gambling-software licence and lists no public trading names or domains, so it is the technical side of the business rather than the site you log in to. If you are checking who is accountable for the product you play, 38613 is the number that matters, not 36834.

Ownership sits a level above both. Flutter Entertainment, the group behind Paddy Power, Betfair and Sky Betting & Gaming, completed its purchase of tombola in January 2022, in a deal widely reported at around £402m. The brand kept its name and its low-stakes, home-grown character, but the parent company is now Flutter, and tombola sits inside its UK & Ireland division.

So does tombola have sister sites?

There are two honest ways to read that question, and the answer changes depending on which you mean.

On tombola's own licence there is exactly one sibling. The Gambling Commission's register lists only two trading names for account 38613 — "tombola" and "tombola arcade" — across four active domains (tombola.co.uk, tombola.com, tombolaarcade.co.uk and tombolaarcade.com). That makes Tombola Arcade the one genuine same-account sister site. It is worth flagging that there is no separately licensed "Tombola Casino" brand on this account, so any site advertising itself as an official Tombola Casino on an unfamiliar domain deserves a careful second look before you sign up.

Widen the view to the whole Flutter group and the family gets much bigger. These are real corporate siblings, but each runs on its own separate operating licence, so none of them shares tombola's account or its settings.

Why the family is so small

Most casino "networks" get large because one operator licenses the same third-party slots and platform to dozens of near-identical front ends. tombola works the other way round. As Flutter describes it, tombola designs and builds its own games in-house rather than reselling a big catalogue of branded slots. You will not find Megaways or the usual licensed slot titles in Tombola Arcade, because the games there are made by tombola itself. That in-house approach is a large part of why the brand has one arcade sibling and not twenty clones. It also means the "sister" you can genuinely expect a similar experience from is Tombola Arcade, while the Sky and Paddy Power brands feel quite different to play even though they share a parent.

Does the Gibraltar address change anything?

It is easy to read "registered in Gibraltar" as a warning sign, so it helps to be clear about what it means. Account 38613 is a full UK Gambling Commission licence, and where the company is incorporated does not change that. As long as you are playing on tombola.co.uk under that account, you are dealing with a UK-licensed operator and the same consumer protections apply as they would for any British site. If you ever needed to raise a formal complaint, the route runs through the Commission's approved dispute-resolution process, not through Gibraltar.

Flutter ownership is worth keeping in perspective too. Sitting inside a large group does not automatically merge your accounts or your safer-gambling history across its brands. Each licence is managed separately, so you should not assume that a limit, a self-exclusion or even your identity checks travel from Sky or Paddy Power to tombola. On the evidence so far, the takeover has left tombola's day-to-day character largely intact, and it still runs as its own operator rather than being folded into another brand's platform.

What to check before you play

• Confirm the licence yourself. tombola should display account 38613 in its footer. You can look that number up on the Gambling Commission's public register to confirm the licence is current before depositing.
• Treat each brand as a separate account. tombola sits on its own licence, so a deposit or loss limit you set at a Sky or Paddy Power site will not carry over to tombola, and a tombola limit will not reach them. Limits are applied per account.
• Set your break where you play. If you want time away from tombola specifically, set the deposit limit or self-exclusion inside your tombola account rather than assuming a control elsewhere covers it.
• The national scheme still applies. If you have registered with the national online self-exclusion scheme, UK-licensed operators including tombola are required to keep you out for the period you chose.
• 18+ only. If the fun has stopped, GamCare runs the free, confidential National Gambling Helpline on 0808 8020 133, open 24 hours a day.

The verdict

tombola is one of the easier brands to place accurately. It is a long-standing British bingo name, now owned by Flutter but still running on its own UK licence (38613), with a single real sister in Tombola Arcade. If you like tombola and want something from the same corporate family, the closest honest matches are Flutter's Sky bingo and casino brands, though you should treat those as separate operators with their own terms, their own accounts and their own safer-gambling settings. And because the register shows only two trading names on tombola's licence, any "Tombola Casino sister site" you meet on a domain that is not tombola.co.uk or tombolaarcade.co.uk is worth checking against the public register before you trust it with a penny.