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Bingo is a fun game and you, I or anyone else simply cannot deny the fact. True it’s gambling but if kept within limits it can change your life greatly. To begin with in today’s fast paced life you will surely get one reason to be happy and enjoy your life with Bingo, not to mention win some real easy cash. It also gives you the opportunity to get to know some nice like minded people and you never know you might even meet your soul mate in one of those bingo rooms. Well the offline and online bingo halls and sites do know that keeping the players at bay is also required as addiction is what they do not support. Hence different measures are taken to help players do so. Certain bingo sites puts a ceiling up to which one can deposit/wager money. Many a time players can put a bar on their own playing and that is the option provided by the sites to their players. So for that the players simply need to apply and they have to select a time span for the same. The bar once approved then the players themselves cannot lift the ban before that time period. So the bingo sites do take care of their players.
As we have said before bingo is all about fun and if played well and if you get the essence of it you would find a whole new world. To up the fun quotient bingo thus have some popular phrases that makes the game much for exciting. Here we would give you a detail of some of these phrases.
For the number 11, callers at bingo halls say long legs eleven as the number represents a pair of ‘hot’ legs. Some enthusiastic audiences and players even whistles once the number is called just to add humour to the game.
Unlucky for some is used for the number 13. Well as the popular belief goes that the number 13 is an unlucky number hence the name. But in the game of bingo nothing is unlucky and 13 might just be your lucky number!
A more interesting one out here is the name given to the number 76, Seven ‘n’ Six – Was she worth it?. Well in the early times the price of a marriage license used to be seven shillings and six pence. A marriage license may have been 7/6 (37.5p in new money) once upon a time, but more recently 7/6 was the cost of a short time with a lady of negotiable affection. So folks was she worth it?
Time for fun and Time for tea are the bingo lingo used for 41 and 83. Well they rhyme and is actually adds to the fun.
For the number 1 well its Kelly’s eye. Kelly’s Eye often refers to the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, who had only one eye. Another suggestion is that it derived from the military as bingo was the only gambling they were allowed to take part in. Other phrases for number one are ‘At the beginning’, ‘Nelson’s Column’, ‘Buttered scone’ and ‘Little Jimmy’.
So all you bingo lovers and players out there this is just the icing on the cake there is much more to bingo lingo but we have given some of the most well known and funny ones just to tickle your senses a little.
