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90 Ball Bingo Calls

Bingo calls have been used in the game of bingo for many reasons, enhancing the experience by making it more engaging, clear, and entertaining. Here’s a breakdown of why bingo calls are important and widely used:

  1. Clarity and Avoidance of Errors: Bingo halls can be noisy, with multiple people talking, laughing, or calling out numbers. Using distinctive bingo calls helps to ensure that players clearly hear and understand the numbers being announced. This clarity helps reduce the likelihood of mistakes in marking bingo cards.

  2. Tradition and Culture: Bingo calls have a rich tradition in the game's history, particularly in the UK where the game has been played in its current form since the early 1900s. Many calls are based on rhymes, historical events, and cultural references, making them an integral part of the game’s cultural fabric.

  3. Entertainment and Engagement: Bingo calls add a layer of fun and engagement to the game. The use of whimsical, funny, or clever phrases can keep the atmosphere light and entertaining, which is crucial for a game that might otherwise consist of simply listening to a series of numbers.

  4. Memory and Learning: The rhyming and associative nature of bingo calls can make it easier for players to remember numbers. For example, remembering "two little ducks" for 22 is often easier than remembering the number alone. This mnemonic device can be particularly helpful for new or less experienced players.

  5. Speed of Play: Using distinct calls can actually speed up the game. Experienced players are often very familiar with these calls and can quickly mark their cards without needing to see the number, just by hearing the call.

  6. Community and Interaction: Bingo calls can foster a sense of community and interaction among players. They often provoke laughter or comments, and regular players might have favorite calls. This interaction enhances the social experience of playing bingo.

Some Alternative Bingo Calls

Number 1

  1. Day in the sun
  2. One Direction
  3. Lone ranger
  4. Single file
  5. First in line

Number 2

  1. Baby shoes
  2. Noah’s ark
  3. One, two, buckle my shoe
  4. Double trouble
  5. Pair on the stair

Number 3

  1. Cup of tea
  2. Me, myself, and I
  3. Three little pigs
  4. Hat trick
  5. Trio treble

Number 4

  1. Knock at the door
  2. On the floor
  3. Four-leaf clover
  4. Square dance
  5. Box seats

Number 5

  1. Five alive
  2. High five
  3. Give me five
  4. Nickel shine
  5. Handful

Number 6

  1. Tom Mix
  2. In a fix
  3. Pick up sticks
  4. Half a dozen
  5. Lucky six

Number 7

  1. Seventh heaven
  2. Lucky seven
  3. God's number
  4. Rainbow colors
  5. One over half a dozen

Number 8

  1. Garden gate
  2. Figure eight
  3. Skate straight
  4. Golden state
  5. Overweight

Number 9

  1. Cat’s tail
  2. Fine dine
  3. Love potion
  4. Rhyme time

Number 10

  1. Downing Street
  2. Big fat hen
  3. Perfect ten
  4. Men again
  5. Bowling pin

Number 11

  1. Legs eleven
  2. Football team
  3. Twin peaks
  4. Two little sticks
  5. Ocean’s eleven

Number 12

  1. One dozen
  2. Clock hands
  3. Sweet twelve
  4. Hanging shelves

Number 13

  1. Unlucky for some
  2. Witching hour
  3. Baker's dozen
  4. Lucky thirteen
  5. Thirteenth step

Number 14

  1. Valentine’s Day
  2. Sweet fourteen
  3. Young and keen
  4. Mid-teen scene
  5. Garden queen

Number 15

  1. Young and keen
  2. Rugby team
  3. Crystal clean
  4. Fifteen beans
  5. Quarter screen

Number 16

  1. Sweet sixteen
  2. Never been kissed
  3. Candle queen
  4. Driving scene
  5. Perfect dream

Number 17

  1. Dancing queen
  2. Magazine
  3. Overheard
  4. Lucky seventeen

Number 18

  1. Coming of age
  2. Voting booth
  3. Adult scene
  4. Golfing dream

Number 19

  1. Goodbye teens
  2. Last of the line
  3. Prime nineteen
  4. Quarantine
  5. Evergreen

Number 20

  1. One score
  2. Getting plenty
  3. Blind twenty
  4. Two tens, no change

Number 21

  1. Key of the door
  2. Royal salute
  3. Blackjack
  4. Catch twenty-one
  5. Just begun

Number 22

  1. Two little ducks
  2. Ballet shoes
  3. Tutu twirls
  4. Double deuce
  5. Quack quack

Number 23

  1. Thee and me
  2. Michael Jordan (wore 23)
  3. Psalms twenty-three
  4. Prime trio
  5. The icing on the cake

Number 24

  1. Two dozen
  2. Knock at the door
  3. Double two times twelve
  4. Case closed
  5. A day and more

Number 25

  1. Christmas day
  2. Silver jubilee
  3. Quarter century
  4. Crown and anchor
  5. Double nickel plus five

Number 26

  1. Pick and mix
  2. Crown jewels
  3. Two over a quarter
  4. Double thirteen
  5. Halfway trick

Number 27

  1. Gateway to heaven
  2. Duck with a crutch
  3. In the groove
  4. Triple nine
  5. Rock and roll

Number 28

  1. In a state
  2. Two and eight
  3. Weighty eight
  4. Duck overweight
  5. Over the gate

Number 29

  1. Rise and shine
  2. Leap year
  3. In the line
  4. Duck and wine
  5. Bending spine

Number 30

  1. Dirty thirty
  2. Your face is dirty
  3. Triple ten
  4. Thirsty work
  5. Pearl anniversary

Number 31

  1. Get up and run
  2. Bask in the sun
  3. Time for fun
  4. Sticky bun
  5. All is done

Number 32

  1. Buckle my shoe
  2. Gorilla glue
  3. Cold brew
  4. Jump and jive
  5. Beehive dive

Number 33

  1. All the threes
  2. Fish, chips and peas
  3. Thirsty trees
  4. Dirty knees
  5. Feathered friends

Number 34

  1. Ask for more
  2. Board on floor
  3. Dirty floor
  4. Knock at the door

Number 35

  1. Jump and jive
  2. Flirty wives
  3. More alive
  4. Catch the dive
  5. Keep the hive

Number 36

  1. Three dozen
  2. Triple twelve
  3. Heart fix
  4. Movie mix
  5. Dirty Tricks

Number 37

  1. A flea in heaven
  2. More than eleven

Number 38

  1. Christmas cake
  2. Triple date
  3. Overweight mate
  4. Garden gate
  5. Lucky fate

Number 39

  1. Steps
  2. Perfect line
  3. Fine wine
  4. Thank you time
  5. Deck of cards

Number 40

  1. Life begins
  2. Naughty forty
  3. Over the hill
  4. Two score
  5. Fortnight’s wait

Number 41

  1. Time for fun
  2. Life’s begun
  3. Office run
  4. Sporting gun
  5. Sun and shade

Number 42

  1. Winnie the Pooh
  2. That famous book
  3. Answers to everything
  4. Two little ducks plus ten
  5. Whinny and neigh

Number 43

  1. Down on your knees
  2. Famous keys
  3. Sail the seas
  4. Single malt please
  5. Love and care

Number 44

  1. All the fours
  2. Droopy drawers
  3. Open doors
  4. Sailor’s score
  5. Horse’s hooves

Number 45

  1. Halfway there
  2. Cowboy’s friend
  3. Jive alive
  4. Colt forty-five
  5. Midlife stride

Number 46

  1. Up to tricks
  2. Out in the sticks
  3. Four and six
  4. Pick up sticks
  5. Last fix

Number 47

  1. Four and seven
  2. Eleven plus heaven
  3. Midlife leaven
  4. Stairway to heaven
  5. Good children

Number 48

  1. Four dozen
  2. Fortnight’s dozen
  3. Garden gate
  4. Weight on the plate
  5. Royal fate

Number 49

  1. Rise and shine
  2. Nickel and dime

Number 50

  1. Half a century
  2. Hawaii five-o
  3. Golden jubilee
  4. Bullseye
  5. Nifty fifty

Number 51

  1. I love my mum
  2. Tweak of the thumb
  3. Pack of cards
  4. Stairway starts
  5. Heavy heart

Number 52

  1. Deck of cards
  2. Weeks in a year
  3. Setting sun
  4. Pickup run
  5. Bakers’ fun

Number 53

  1. Stuck in a tree
  2. Here comes Herbie
  3. Pack of bees
  4. On the ski
  5. Can’t you see

Number 54

  1. Clean the floor

Number 55

  1. All the fives
  2. Snakes alive
  3. Double nickels
  4. Speed limit
  5. High five dive

Number 56

  1. Was she worth it?
  2. Shy chick
  3. Five and six
  4. Ticks and clicks
  5. Lollipop sticks

Number 57

  1. Heinz varieties
  2. Ketchup’s trick
  3. Five and seven
  4. Fifty-seven Chevy
  5. Astronaut’s heaven

Number 58

  1. Make them wait
  2. Choo choo choo
  3. Almost great
  4. Garden gate
  5. Don’t be late

Number 59

  1. Brighton line
  2. Just in time
  3. Five and nine

Number 60

  1. Three score
  2. Five dozen
  3. Grandma’s age
  4. Diamond years
  5. Clock’s face

Number 61

  1. Baker’s bun
  2. One over sixty
  3. Retirement fun
  4. Sweet run
  5. Jolly one

Number 62

  1. Turn on the screw
  2. Tickety-boo
  3. Queen’s shoe
  4. Six and two
  5. Catch the flu

Number 63

  1. Tickle me
  2. Grandpa’s knee
  3. Six and three
  4. Redwood tree
  5. Bee’s knees

Number 64

  1. Almost retired
  2. Beatles’ score (from the song "When I’m Sixty Four")
  3. Red door
  4. Chessboard tale
  5. Stitch galore

Number 65

  1. Retirement age
  2. Old flame
  3. Still alive
  4. Sixty-five drive
  5. Beehive jive

Number 66

  1. Clickety click
  2. Route 66
  3. Double chicks
  4. Two football kicks
  5. All in a fix

Number 67

  1. Stairway to heaven
  2. Argumentative
  3. Six and seven
  4. Was it worth it?
  5. Saved by leaven

Number 68

  1. Checkmate date
  2. Late for tea
  3. Pick a mate
  4. Saving grace
  5. Overweight

Number 69

  1. Anyway up
  2. Favorite position
  3. Last of the line
  4. Fine wine dine
  5. Meal for two

Number 70

  1. Three score and ten
  2. Seven zero hero
  3. Senior’s game
  4. Tea for two
  5. Jackpot time

Number 71

  1. Bang on the drum
  2. Lucky one
  3. One more run
  4. Jolly sun
  5. Tea and bun

Number 72

  1. Six dozen
  2. Seventy-two crew
  3. Choo choo choo

Number 73

  1. Queen bee
  2. Under the tree
  3. Seven and three
  4. Lucky spree
  5. Monopoly

Number 74

  1. Candy store
  2. Forever more
  3. Hit the floor
  4. Seven and four
  5. Lucky door

Number 75

  1. Strive and thrive
  2. Diamond wife
  3. Grand old age
  4. All alive
  5. In overdrive

Number 76

  1. Trombones
  2. Seven, six, pick up sticks
  3. Fireman’s shifts
  4. Lucky mix
  5. Old tricks

Number 77

  1. All the sevens
  2. Sunset strip
  3. Double crutch
  4. Two hockey sticks
  5. Heaven’s gate

Number 78

  1. Heaven’s gate
  2. Seventy-eight
  3. Chocolate cake
  4. Late date
  5. Don’t wait

Number 79

  1. One more time
  2. Climbing vine
  3. Seven and nine
  4. Wine and dine
  5. Fine line

Number 80

  1. Eight and blank
  2. There you go
  3. Ate nothing
  4. Overweight’s fate
  5. Hooray mate

Number 81

  1. Stop and run
  2. Fun in the sun
  3. Eighty-one gun salute
  4. Senior’s fun
  5. Tea for one

Number 82

  1. Straight on through
  2. Eight and two
  3. Saving boo
  4. Good for you
  5. Dinosaur stew

Number 83

  1. Time for tea
  2. Eight and three
  3. Ethel’s Ear
  4. Free and easy
  5. Bee's knees

Number 84

  1. Seven dozen
  2. Out the door
  3. Sailor’s score
  4. Eight and four
  5. One foot more

Number 85

  1. Staying alive
  2. Ladies’ night
  3. Drive and strive
  4. Eight and five
  5. High dive

Number 86

  1. Between the sticks
  2. Tricks and kicks
  3. Pick up sticks
  4. Get in a fix
  5. Old dog’s tricks

Number 87

  1. Torquay in Devon
  2. Gateway to heaven
  3. Eight and seven
  4. Crutch eleven
  5. Straight from leaven

Number 88

  1. Two fat ladies
  2. Wobbly wobbly
  3. Double infinity
  4. Snowman’s fate
  5. Pair of plates

Number 89

  1. Nearly there
  2. One more time
  3. Grand old time
  4. Last climb
  5. Right on line

Number 90

  1. Top of the shop
  2. End of the line
  3. Big ben chime
  4. Full house
  5. Last shout

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