Bingo Calls
If you’ve never played Bingo, it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with ‘Bingo lingo’ to make sure those winning numbers don’t pass you by. If you’re thinking that this might be a whole new language, take heart – Bingo terminology is mostly formed out of acronyms, and is easy to pick up. Bingo calling, when it’s well done, can be very appealing – certainly, die hard Bingo traditionalists, testify to loving the unique names that have been created for the numbers. Here’s a selection of them to get you started:
Bingo Calls: Number Terminology
- 1 Kelly’s eye/On it’s own/At the beginning/number one, just begun
- 2 One little Duck
- 3 Cup of tea/one little flea/Dixie lee
- 4 Knock at the door
- 5 Man alive/Jack’s alive
- 6 Just a click/chopsticks
- 7 Lucky for some/hope in heaven
- 8 One fat lady/the garden gate
- 9 Doctor’s orders
- 10 Gordon’s den/Big ben
- 11 Chicken legs/legs eleven
- 13 Unlucky for some/lucky for some
- 16 Sweet sixteen
- 17 Never been kissed
- 21 Key of the door
- 22 All the twos/dinky doo
- 23 Thee and me
- 24 Two dozen
- 25 Half a crown/pick and mix
- 30 Dirty gertie
- 33 Come in for ya tea/all the threes
- 37 More than eleven
- 39 All the steps
- 40 Over the hill
- 44 Droopy drawers/all the fours
- 45 Halfway there
- 50 Bulls eye/blind 50
- 51 Tweak of the thumb
- 55 Snakes alive/all the fives
- 57 Heinz varieties
- 58 Brighton line
- 64 Red Raw/cat’s paw
- 66 Clickety click/all the sixes
- 69 That’s rude/two can chew
- 70 Bang on the drum
- 71 In for a poo
- 76 7 and 6 – was she worth it?/trombones
- 77 All the sevens/seventy plus seven
- 78 One more time/seventy plus nine
- 81 Stop and run/cinnamon bun
- 86 Between the sticks
- 88 Two fat ladies/all the eights
- 90 Top of the shop/top of the house
All the Bingo calls you’ll need to know to have a ball at your next game!
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