Bingo Calling names - what is the caller saying?

The modern day Bingo calling game has a fairly specific calling patterns, and rather boring. To aid recognition of the numbers and ease of fast delivery, the old names have sadly been eliminated. The numbers will come at you at a great gust of knots in a modern club - the patterns are like this. All double digit numbers (with some exceptions), let's say 45, would be pronounced as such: Four and five, forty five. If its a single number, such as 2, then its: Two, on its own, number 2. The exception to the double number pronunciation rule, is when a double number is with both numbers the same, such as 88, this would be pronounced as: All the eights, eighty eight.

Online Bingo Games are not any different in the way that they are called to land based Bingo Hall games. Although the games is electronic, each number that comes up is called by voice also. But sadly once again with online Bingo there is absolutely no interaction between the number called and the old style calling names.

Most modern day callers pretty much stick to this pattern, but there are variations on it - and occasionally you hear the odd echo of the old name. I've heard some callers do a nine oh, blind ninety, but they are few and far between in my experience.

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The old Bingo calling names (Is it a dying tradition?)
  1. 1 Kelly's eye
  2. One little duck | Me and you
  3. You and me
  4. Knock at the door
  5. Man alive
  6. Tom's tricks
  7. Lucky seven | God's in heaven
  8. One Fat Lady
  9. Doctor's orders
  10. Tony's Den
  11. Legs eleven
  12. One dozen, One and two - a dozen, Monkey's cousin (rhymes with "a dozen")
  13. Unlucky for some, Devil's number, Bakers dozen
  14. Valentines day
  15. Rugby team, Young and keen
  16. Sweet sixteen | Never been kissed
  17. Often been kissed | Dancing Queen
  18. Key of the door | Coming of age
  19. Goodbye teens
  20. Getting plenty | 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. Bed and breakfast | Half a crown | Pick and mix
  27. Little duck with a crutch | Gateway to heaven
  28. In a state | Over weight
  29. You're doing fine
  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
  38. Christmas cake
  39. Those famous steps
  40. Naughty Forty
  41. Time for fun
  42. That famous street in Manhattan | Whinny the Pooh
  43. Down on your knees
  44. Droopy drawers | All the fours
  45. Halfway house | Halfway there
  46. Up to tricks
  47. Four and seven
  48. Four dozen
  49. PC (Police Constable) | Copper | Nick nick
  50. Bulls eye | Blind 50 | Half a century
  51. Tweak of the thumb
  52. Weeks in a year | Danny La Rue
  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. Three score | Blind 60 | Five dozen
  61. Bakers bun
  62. Tickety boo | Turn on the screw
  63. Tickle me | Des Eerie
  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. The same both ways | your place or mine | Either way up | Meal for two
  70. Three score and ten | Blind 70
  71. Bang on the drum
  72. 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
  77. Sunset strip | All the sevens | Two little crutches
  78. Heavens gate
  79. One more time
  80. Gandhi's breakfast | Blind 80 | Eight and blank
  81. Fat lady and a little wee | Stop and run
  82. Fat lady with a duck | Straight on through
  83. Fat lady with a flea | Time for tea
  84. Seven dozen
  85. Staying alive
  86. Between the sticks
  87. Fat lady with a crutch
  88. Two fat ladies | All the eights | Wobbly wobbly
  89. Nearly there | All but one
  90. Top of the shop | Top of the house | Blind ninety | End of the line

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