Bingo callers can have a lot of fun, and so can bingo players when the listen to a good bingo caller.  The role of the bingo caller is to call out all the numbers that are drawn.  In order to ensure that players hear the correct number, the numbers are traditionally called out with either rhyming words connected to the number, or some kind of reason or explanation is called out.  Depending on the crowd, they may join in.  For example, if twenty-two is called (two little ducks), the crowd may shout out ‘quack quack’, and when the number eighty-eight is called (two fat ladies), the crowd could shout out ‘wobble, wobble’.

The following are some of the bingo numbers and their bingo lingo explanations:

One – First on the board, or number ace, Kelly’s eye, or at the beginning.

Seven – Lucky seven, or one little crutch.

Eight – One fat lady (It looks like the two halves of a fat lady.)

Nine – Doctor’s orders. (In World War I, the British pill number 9 was a laxative.  If someone was ‘Number Nine’, it means they were sick.)

Eleven – All the ones, or legs eleven.

Twelve – One dozen.

Thirteen – Unlucky for some, lucky for some, baker’s dozen.

Fourteen – Valentine’s Day.

Sixteen – Sweet sixteen.

Seventeen – Never been kissed.

Eighteen – Coming of age.

Nineteen – Goodbye teens.

Twenty – One score.

Twenty-two – Two little ducks.  (Each number looks like a duck.)

Twenty-four – Two dozen.

Twenty-six – (Two and six) Half a crown.  Bed and breakfast.

Twenty-seven – Duck and crutch.

Thirty – Flirty thirty.

Thirty-three – All the threes.

Thirty-six – Three dozen.

Thirty-nine – Those famous steps (from the novel “The Thirty-Nine Steps”.)

Forty – Life begins at…

Forty-three – Down on your knees.

Forty-four – Open two doors, or all the fours.

Forty-five – Halfway there.

Forty-seven – Four and seven.

Forty-eight  – Four dozen.

Fifty – Bull’s eye, or half a century, or ‘five-oh, five-oh, it’s off to work we go.’

Fifty-two – Weeks in a year.

Fifty-five – All the fives.

Fifty-six – Was she worth it?

Fifty-seven – Heinz varieties.

Sixty – Blind 60.

Sixty-four – The Beatles’ number.

Sixty-five – Old Age pension.

Sixty-six – All the sixes, or clickety-click.

Sixty-nine – Any way up.

Seventy – Three score and ten.

Seventy-two – A crutch and a duck.

Seventy-six – Seven ‘n’ six.  Was she worth it?

Seventy-seven – All the sevens.

Eighty-two – Fat lady with a duck.

Eighty-four – Seven dozen.

Eighty-seven – Fat lady with a crutch.

Eighty-eight – Two fat ladies.

Eighty-nine – All but one.

Ninety – Top of the house, or top of the shop, or as far as we go.

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