Bingo Calling names - what is the caller saying?
The modern day Bingo calling game has a fairly specific calling patterns, and rather boring. To aid recognition of the numbers and ease of fast delivery, the old names have sadly been eliminated. The numbers will come at you at a great gust of knots in a modern club - the patterns are like this. All double digit numbers (with some exceptions), let's say 45, would be pronounced as such: Four and five, forty five. If its a single number, such as 2, then its: Two, on its own, number 2. The exception to the double number pronunciation rule, is when a double number is with both numbers the same, such as 88, this would be pronounced as: All the eights, eighty eight.
Online Bingo Games are not any different in the way that they are called to land based Bingo Hall games. Although the games is electronic, each number that comes up is called by voice also. But sadly once again with online Bingo there is absolutely no interaction between the number called and the old style calling names.
Most modern day callers pretty much stick to this pattern, but there are variations on it - and occasionally you hear the odd echo of the old name. I've heard some callers do a nine oh, blind ninety, but they are few and far between in my experience.
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The old Bingo calling names (Is it a dying tradition?)
- 1 Kelly's eye
- One little duck | Me and you
- You and me
- Knock at the door
- Man alive
- Tom's tricks
- Lucky seven | God's in heaven
- One Fat Lady
- Doctor's orders
- Tony's Den
- Legs eleven
- One dozen, One and two - a dozen, Monkey's cousin (rhymes with "a dozen")
- Unlucky for some, Devil's number, Bakers dozen
- Valentines day
- Rugby team, Young and keen
- Sweet sixteen | Never been kissed
- Often been kissed | Dancing Queen
- Key of the door | Coming of age
- Goodbye teens
- Getting plenty | Blind 20
- Key of the door
- Two little ducks | All the twos
- Thee and me | The Lord is my Shepherd
- Two dozen
- Duck and dive
- Bed and breakfast | Half a crown | Pick and mix
- Little duck with a crutch | Gateway to heaven
- In a state | Over weight
- You're doing fine
- Burlington Bertie | Dirty Gertie | Speed limit | Flirty thirty | Blind 30
- Get up and run
- Buckle my Shoe
- Dirty knees | All the threes | All the feathers | Two little fleas | Sherwood Forest
- Ask for more
- Jump and jive
- Three dozen
- A flea in heaven
- Christmas cake
- Those famous steps
- Naughty Forty
- Time for fun
- That famous street in Manhattan | Whinny the Pooh
- Down on your knees
- Droopy drawers | All the fours
- Halfway house | Halfway there
- Up to tricks
- Four and seven
- Four dozen
- PC (Police Constable) | Copper | Nick nick
- Bulls eye | Blind 50 | Half a century
- Tweak of the thumb
- Weeks in a year | Danny La Rue
- Stuck in the tree
- Clean the floor
- Snakes alive | All the fives
- Was she worth it?
- Heinz varieties
- Make them wait | Choo choo Thomas
- Brighton line
- Three score | Blind 60 | Five dozen
- Bakers bun
- Tickety boo | Turn on the screw
- Tickle me | Des Eerie
- Red raw | The Beatles number
- Old age pension
- Clickety click | All the sixes
- Made in heaven | Argumentative number
- Saving grace
- The same both ways | your place or mine | Either way up | Meal for two
- Three score and ten | Blind 70
- Bang on the drum
- A crutch and a duck | Par for the course
- Crutch and a flea | Queen B
- Candy store
- Strive and strive
- Trombones
- Sunset strip | All the sevens | Two little crutches
- Heavens gate
- One more time
- Gandhi's breakfast | Blind 80 | Eight and blank
- Fat lady and a little wee | Stop and run
- Fat lady with a duck | Straight on through
- Fat lady with a flea | Time for tea
- Seven dozen
- Staying alive
- Between the sticks
- Fat lady with a crutch
- Two fat ladies | All the eights | Wobbly wobbly
- Nearly there | All but one
- Top of the shop | Top of the house | Blind ninety | End of the line
