Bingo Calls

After signing up at my local bingo hall, and playing my first night as a bingo virgin, I thought I would impress my friends and learn all the bingo lingo. After two days of studying I was all ready to put my new found knowledge to the test. I was quite disappointed to find that they don’t call out the traditional ‘two little ducks’ anymore. So we will write down the most common sayings and phrases used in traditional bingo. See how many you know?

1. Kelly’s Eye/Nelsons column
2. One little duck/ me and you.
3. Cup of tea/One little flea.
4. Knock on the door.
5. Man alive.
6. Toms trick’s
7. Lucky seven.
8. Golden gate.
9. Doctors orders.
10 Gordon’s den.
11. Legs eleven.
12. One dozen.
13. Unlucky for some.
14. Valentines day.
15 Young and keen/rugby team.
16. Sweet sixteen.
17. Dancing queen/the age to catch em.
18. Key to the door/coming of age.
19. Goodbye teens.
20. Blind 20/a score.
21. Key to the door
22. Two little ducks.
23.Thee and me.
24.Two dozen.
25.Duck and dive.
26. Pick and mix/bed and breakfast.
27. Gateway to heaven.
28. Overweight/in a state.
29. Your doing fine/rise and shine.
30.Dirty Gerty/blind 30.
31. Get up and run.
32. Buckle my shoe.
33. Dirty knee/all the 3s.
34. Ask for more.
35.Jump and jive.
36. 3 dozen.
37. A flea in heaven/more than eleven.
38. Christmas cake.
39. Famous steps/steps.
40. Naughty 40/ blind40.
41. Time for fun.
42. Whinny the pooh.
43. Down on your knees.
44. Droopy drawers/all the 4s.
45. Halfway there.
46. Up to tricks.
47. Four and seven.
48. 4 dozen.
49. PC/copper/nick nick.
50. Blind 50/ half a century.
51. Tweak of the thumb.
52. Weeks of the year/Danny la Rue.
53. Stuck in a tree.
54. Clean the floor.
55. All the 5s.
56. Was she worth it?
57. Heinz varieties.
58. Make them wait.
59. Brighton line.
60. 5 dozen.
61. Bakers bun.
62. Tickety boo/turn the screw.
63. Tickle me.
64. Red raw/the Beatles number.
65. Old age pension.
66. All the 6s.
67. Made in heaven.
68. Saving grace.
69. The same both ways.
70. Blind 70.
71. Bang on the drum.
72. 6 dozen.
73. Queen b.
74. Candy store.
75. Strive and strive.
76. Trombones.
77. All the sevens/sunset strip.
78. Heavens gate.
79. One more time.
80. Blind 80.
81. Stop and run.
82. Straight on through/fat lady with a duck.
83. Time for tea.
84. 7 dozen.
85. Staying alive.
86. Between the sticks.
87. Torquay in Devon.
88. 2 fat ladies.
89. All but 1/nearly there
90. Top of the shop./ Blind 90.

I’ll keep you posted next week, on how well my new found knowledge improves my bingo game.