Online
Bingo
Online Bingo is also becoming increasingly popular
with many different companies launching sites
including
Ladbrokes,
and Jackpotjoy,
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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