Articles about Bingo
Bingo Numbers
This section covers common terms for all the bingo numbers called - yes, they have a term for every single number! The list refers to UK Bingo, as it utilizes 90 balls rather than 75, as in American Bingo.
Some of the terms have real meaning behind them, such as "26 = Bed and Breakfast". The cost of overnight lodging with breakfast is traditionally 2 shillings and 6 pence, or two and six.
"80 = Gandhi's Breakfast" was named for the imagined aerial view of Gandhi, sitting with legs crossed, in front of an empty plate.
"59 = Brighton Line" got it's name from the London - Brighton bus service, number 59.
Other bingo numbers you'll notice, were simply chosen because they rhyme well.
1 = Kelly's Eye / At the Beginning
2 = One Little Duck / Me and You
3 = Cup of tea / You and Me
4 = Knock at the Door
5 = Man Alive
6 = Tom's tricks / Tom Nix
7 = Lucky Seven / God's in Heaven
8 = One Fat Lady / Golden Gate/ Garden Gate
9 = Doctor's Orders ("Number 9" was a laxative in WWII)
10 = Tony's Den (Tony Blair lives at 10 Downing Street)
11 = Legs Eleven 12 = One Dozen
13 = Unlucky for Some / Devil's Number/ Bakers
Dozen 14 = Valentines Day
15 = Young and keen / Rugby Team
16 = Sweet Sixteen / She's Lovely
17 = Dancing Queen / Often been Kissed
18 = Coming of Age
19 = Goodbye Teens
20 = One Score/ Blind 20
21 = Key of the Door
22 = Two Little Ducks / All the Twos
23 = Thee and Me / The Lord is my Shepherd
24 = Two dozen
25 = Duck and Dive
26 = Pick and Mix/Half a crown/Bed and Breakfast
27 = Gateway to Heaven / Little duck with a Crutch
28 = Over Weight / In a State
29 = You're doing Fine/ Rise and Shine
30 = Burlington Bertie / Dirty Gertie / Speed Limit / Flirty thirty / Blind 30
31 = Get up and Run 32 = Buckle my Shoe
33 = Dirty Knees / All the Threes / All the Feathers / Two Little Fleas / Sherwood Forest
34 = Ask for More
35 = Jump and Jive
36 = Three Dozen
37 = A Flea in Heaven / More than Eleven
38 = Christmas Cake 39 = Those Famous Steps / Steps
40 = Naughty Forty
41 = Time for Fun
42 = Winnie the Pooh/ Famous Street in Manhattan
43 = Down on your Knees
44 = Droopy Drawers / All the Fours
45 = Halfway There / Halfway House
46 = Up to Tricks
47 = Four and Seven
48 = Four Dozen
49 = P.C. / Copper / Nick Nick
50 = Half a Century/ Bulls Eye / Blind 50
51 = Tweak of the Thumb
52 = Danny La Rue/ Weeks in a Year
53 = Stuck in the Tree
54 = Clean the Floor
55 = Snakes Alive / All the Fives
56 = Was she worth it?
57 = Heinz Varieties
58 = Make them Wait / Choo choo Thomas
59 = Brighton Line
60 = Five Dozen /Three Score / Blind 60
61 = Bakers Bun
62 = Turn on the Screw / Tickety Boo
63 = Tickle Me
64 = Red Raw / The Beatles Number
65 = Old Age Pension 66 = Clickety Click / All the Sixes
67 = Made in Heaven / Argumentative Number
68 = Saving Grace
69 = Either Way Up /The Same Both Ways / Your Place or Mine / Meal for Two
70 = Three Score and Ten / Blind 70
71 = Bang on the Drum
72 = Six Dozen / A Crutch and a Duck / Par for the Course
73 = Crutch and a flea / Queen B
74 = Candy Store
75 = Strive and Strive
76 = Trombones / Was She Worth It
77 = Sunset Strip / All the Sevens / Two Little Crutches
78 = Heavens Gate
79 = One More Time 80 = Eight and Blank/Blind
80/Gandhi's Breakfast
81 = Stop and Run
82 = Straight on Through/ Fat lady with a Duck
83 = Time for Tea / Ethel's Ear 84 = Seven Dozen
85 = Staying Alive
86 = Between the Sticks
87 = Torquay in Devon/ Fat lady with a Crutch
88 = Two fat ladies / All the Eights
89 = Nearly there / All but One
90 = Top of the Shop / Top of the House / Blind 90 / End of the Line