Bingo Lingo

As we all know bingo has a unique set of nicknames for each bingo number. In traditional bingo halls, bingo callers would use these nicknames when calling out each number, and they soon became known as bingo lingo or bingo calls. Below you will find a full list of all the nicknames for each number up to ‘strive and strive’75.

1 Kelly’s Eye
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 (In World War 2 the British pill “Number 9” was a laxative)
10 Tony’s Den. (Tony Blair at 10 Downing Street so changes with each Prime Minister)
11 Legs Eleven
12 One Dozen
13 Unlucky for Some / Devil’s Number/ Baker’s Dozen
14 Valentine’s 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 (The cost of a night’s bed & breakfast was traditionally 2 shillings and sixpence, or two and six)
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 (The London to Brighton bus service was the number 59)
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 (The age of a man’s retirement in the UK)
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