The Brighton Line being the one running to the seaside town from Victoria Station, memorably mentioned in Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. Similarly, Brighton Line is a rhyme for 59. Shotts Bus, 56, is perhaps less well known to those outside Scotland, 56 being the one-time number of the bus route from Glasgow to Shotts in North Lanarkshire.
Some bingo calls are not purely based on rhymes some bring to mind popular associations of particular numbers.įor instance, 39 Steps, from the 1915 novel The Thirty Nine Steps by John Buchan that has been the basis for several feature films. Some callers might use Burlington Bertie, recalling another song from the Music Hall era, Burlington Bertie from Bow. Number 17, Dancing Queen, is not only a rhyme for the number but a reference to the lyrics of the Abba song, Dancing Queen, “You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen.”ĭirty Gertie is used for the number 30, and refers to a bawdy song, Dirty Gertie from Bizerte, sung by allied troops in North Africa during the Second World War. So number 10 becomes “Boris’s Den” or indeed whoever the Prime Minister happens to be at the time, both rhyming with ten and referring to Number Ten Downing Street, the London address of the UK Prime Minister. Some bingo calls come from words which rhyme with the number in question. Here’s a complete list of bingo calls that you might hear in UK bingo:ĭirty Knee - All the Threes - Fish, Chips and PeasĮight and Blank - Older callers might use 'Ghandi's Breakfast' -"Ate Nothing"! Originally the process of drawing out the balls with the numbers on was quite time consuming, so the calls are designed to liven up the process and engage the players in the game, some even have response calls! Play Online Bingo A Complete List of Bingo Numbers and Sayingsīingo calls are a combination of rhyming slang, puns, and cheeky phrases that relate to particular numbers. Housey Housey, a version of Bingo played by servicemen during World War Two, was very popular, and many bingo call nicknames have origins in military terms, rhymes and slightly bawdy jokes. The history of bingo calling dates to the re-importation of the game to the UK in the 1950s. During one particularly exciting game someone called out “Bingo” instead of “Beano” and the name stuck. Back at home in New York it caught on with his friends. Lowe saw ‘Beano’, as it was then called, being played at a carnival in Georgia.
The game evolved throughout Europe into the 1800s, then travelled over to the United States of America with early migrants, and became popular in the early 1900s. How Bingo Beganīingo has its origins in Lo Gioco del Lotto D’Italia, the original Italian lottery first played in 1530. You might hear references to little ducks and cups of tea, and wonder where these phrases come from.
If you’ve ever played bingo in the UK, you will have heard the caller following up the numbers with distinctive nicknames.
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