Online
Bingo
Online Bingo is also becoming increasingly popular
with many different companies launching sites
including
Ladbrokes, Jackpotjoy, and
Virgin Casino which is the first
online bingo company in the world to offer live and
interactive "in-vision" callers.As well as offering
the familiar Housie/Bingo played by marking numbered
books, most large clubs have their tables modified
for the playing of Cash Housie or Mechanised Cash
Bingo [Parti Bingo] (using coin slots or,
increasingly in the 21st century, an electronic
credit system). This is highly profitable for the
operator, with a typical "take" of fifty percent of
the stakeMechanised cash bingo differs from paper
bingo, because it is played on a plastic bingo board,
that is 4x4 square, and split up into four columns of
colours. The customer chooses when they want to play,
and insert a credit into a coin slot. The company
involved will then use a computer (called a stage rig
controller) to automatically take a "participation
fee" which is set by the operator (usually between
40% and 60%). The rest of the credit is then put into
the prize pool to be played for. There are only 80
numbers in play. The numbers are called a lot faster
by the caller (usually around 1.5 seconds a number)
and when a customer has a winning combination they
press a claim button to stop the game. This is
profitable for the operator as the games are so fast,
and a huge parfee can be made in a few minutes.
Winning combinations are usually any line down,
across, diagonal, four corners or four centre
squaresIn Northern Ireland bingo clubs, where the
laws governing bingo games are different than in
England, Scotland and Wales, it is common, when
playing "parti bingo" for the caller to announce that
a position or "card" has won, and ending the game,
without the participation of the person playing. This
enables the customer to play more positions in hope
of a better chance of winning.
| Number |
Slang Expression |
| 1 |
Kelly's Eye / On its Own / At
the Beginning / Start the Game / Number
one, just begun |
| 2 |
One Little Duck |
| 3 |
Cup of Tea / One Little Flea /
My little Fly / Dixie Lee |
| 4 |
Knock at the Door |
| 5 |
Man Alive / Jack's
alive |
| 6 |
Just a Click /
chopsticks |
| 7 |
Lucky for Some / hope in
heaven |
| 8 |
One Fat Lady / The Garden
Gate |
| 9 |
Doctor's Orders ("Number 9
pill") |
| 10 |
Gordon's Den (forename of
current prime minister) / Big Ben / cock
and hen / Downing Street |
| 11 |
Chicken Legs / Legs
Eleven |
| 13 |
Unlucky for Some / Lucky for
Some |
| 16 |
Sweet Sixteen |
| 17 |
Never been kissed |
| 21 |
Key of the Door |
| 22 |
Two Little Ducks / all the twos
/ dinky doo |
| 23 |
Thee and Me |
| 24 |
Two Dozen |
| 26 |
Half a Crown / Pick and Mix /
bed and breakfast |
| 30 |
Dirty Gertie |
| 33 |
Come in For Ya Tea / all the
threes / Feathers |
| 37 |
More Than Eleven |
| 38 |
You're Late!! / Top
Date! |
| 39 |
All the steps (Novel "The
Thirty-Nine Steps") |
| 40 |
Over the Hill |
| 44 |
Droopy Drawers / All the
fours |
| 45 |
Halfway There |
| 50 |
Bulls eye / Blind 50 / Halfway
House / Hawaii |
| 51 |
Tweak of the Thumb |
| 55 |
Snakes Alive / All the
Fives |
| 57 |
Heinz Varieties |
| 59 |
Brighton Line |
| 64 |
Red Raw / knock on the door /
you're poor / cats paw |
| 66 |
Clickety-Click / All the
sixes |
| 69 |
Thats Rude / Two can chew /
Dinner for Two / Any way you look at
it |
| 71 |
Bang on the Drum |
| 72 |
In for a Poo |
| 76 |
7 and 6 - Was she worth it? /
Trombones |
| 77 |
All the sevens / Seventy plus
Seven |
| 79 |
One More Time / Seventy plus
nine |
| 81 |
Stop and Run / Cinnamon
Bun |
| 86 |
Between the Sticks / Dogs
dicks |
| 88 |
Two Fat Ladies / All the
eights |
| 89 |
Almost there |
|
90 Top of the Shop /
Top of the House
|
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