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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 |
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90 Top of the Shop / Top of the House
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