GUINNESS World Records’ Day is an annual celebration of extraordinary achievements. That includes Sun Bingo’s own record attempts.
Today marks the 20th anniversary of Guinness World Records’ (GWR) Day.
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The day was first celebrated in 2004 to mark the GWR book becoming the best-selling copyright book of all time.
Since then, it has become a chance for would-be record breakers to enter the records’ Hall of Fame.
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In 2023, various world records were broken on GWR Day, including:
- Tightest gap driven through by a pickup truck on two wheels (88cm).
- Highest backflip pogo stick jump (3.07m).
- Most consecutive single leg full twist back somersaults (11).
- Most consecutive Double Dutch-style handstand skips – team of two (31).
The day was an international effort, with record breakers taking part across the world.
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Other new entries to the GWR book included:
- Germany – Most darts thrown with the foot in one minute (9).
- UK – Most candles extinguished with a single nunchaku strike (28).
- Spain – Fastest mile dribbling a basketball (4:23).
- India – Most hula hoop rotations on a unicycle in one minute (74).
Throughout the years, Guinness World Records have taken all manner of weird and wonderful forms.
There are even several related to bingo!
Largest bingo drum
At a bingo event in Japan on 25th December 2017, the largest bingo drum was recorded.
The drum was 3.05m in diameter and 3.037m in width.
That made this mega bingo ball device 22.8x larger than the average bingo drum.
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Largest game of bingo
On 2nd December 2006 in Colombia, a staggering 70,080 participants took up their dabbers and joined in the largest game of in-person bingo ever recorded.
Sun Bingo’s world records
Even Sun Bingo has bagged some bingo-related world records.
In a 2017 event, Sun Bingo scooped the titles of largest set of bingo balls (there were 75 balls, each measuring 73cm) and largest bingo ticket.
The giant card was 15.912m2 and was used in a bingo game hosted within the iconic Blackpool Tower.
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About the author
Katrina Vasey – Bingo Editor, The Sun
After graduating from Southampton University with a degree in English Literature, Katrina Vasey worked as a Content Editor for Law Business Research’s publication the International Law Office. Katrina joined The Sun in 2022 as the Bingo Editor, covering the four gaming platforms: Sun Bingo, Fabulous Bingo, Sun Vegas and Fabulous Vegas.
