Bingo Calls

All 90 bingo calls

No.	Call	Where it comes from
1	Kelly's eye	Thought to be army slang, or the outlaw Ned Kelly's one-eyed helmet
2	One little duck	The 2 looks like a duck on the water
3	Cup of tea	Rhymes with three
4	Knock at the door	Rhymes with four
5	Man alive	Rhymes with five
6	Half a dozen	Six is half of twelve
7	Lucky seven	Seven is the lucky number
8	Garden gate	Rhymes with eight
9	Doctor's orders	Number 9 was a laxative pill army doctors handed out
10	Cock and hen	Rhymes with ten
11	Legs eleven	The two ones look like a pair of legs; the room often wolf-whistles
12	One dozen	Twelve is a dozen
13	Unlucky for some	Thirteen is the unlucky number
14	Valentine's Day	February 14th
15	Young and keen	Rhymes with fifteen
16	Sweet sixteen	The coming-of-age birthday
17	Dancing queen	From the ABBA song: young and sweet, only seventeen
18	Coming of age	Eighteen is adulthood in the UK
19	Goodbye teens	The last of the teens
20	One score	A score is twenty
21	Key of the door	Twenty-one was once the age you got your own key
22	Two little ducks	The 22 looks like two ducks; the room quacks back
23	Thee and me	Rhymes with twenty-three
24	Two dozen	Twice twelve
25	Duck and dive	Rhymes with twenty-five
26	Pick and mix	Rhymes with twenty-six
27	Gateway to heaven	Rhymes with twenty-seven
28	In a state	Rhymes with twenty-eight
29	Rise and shine	Rhymes with twenty-nine
30	Dirty Gertie	Rhymes with thirty; a ribald song of the First World War
31	Get up and run	Rhymes with thirty-one
32	Buckle my shoe	From the nursery rhyme One, two, buckle my shoe
33	All the threes	Both digits are threes
34	Ask for more	Rhymes with thirty-four
35	Jump and jive	Rhymes with thirty-five
36	Three dozen	Three times twelve
37	More than eleven	Rhymes with thirty-seven
38	Christmas cake	Rhymes with thirty-eight
39	Steps	The 39 Steps, the Hitchcock film
40	Naughty forty	Rhymes with forty
41	Time for fun	Rhymes with forty-one
42	Winnie the Pooh	Rhymes with forty-two
43	Down on your knees	Rhymes with forty-three
44	Droopy drawers	Rhymes with forty-four
45	Halfway there	Forty-five is half of ninety
46	Up to tricks	Rhymes with forty-six
47	Four and seven	Said as it is written
48	Four dozen	Four times twelve
49	PC	Police Constable 49, from the radio show The Adventures of PC 49
50	Half a century	Fifty years
51	Tweak of the thumb	Rhymes with fifty-one
52	Deck of cards	There are 52 cards in a pack
53	Stuck in the tree	Rhymes with fifty-three
54	Clean the floor	Rhymes with fifty-four
55	Snakes alive	The two fives look like snakes
56	Was she worth it?	A marriage licence once cost five shillings and sixpence
57	Heinz varieties	The 57 varieties on Heinz tins
58	Make them wait	Rhymes with fifty-eight
59	Brighton line	Rhymes with fifty-nine
60	Five dozen	Five times twelve
61	Baker's bun	Rhymes with sixty-one
62	Tickety-boo	Rhymes with sixty-two
63	Tickle me	Rhymes with sixty-three
64	Red raw	Rhymes with sixty-four
65	Old age pension	Sixty-five was the British pension age
66	Clickety click	Rhymes with sixty-six
67	Made in heaven	Rhymes with sixty-seven
68	Saving grace	Rhymes with sixty-eight
69	Either way up	Sixty-nine reads the same upside down
70	Three score and ten	Seventy, the biblical span of a life
71	Bang on the drum	Rhymes with seventy-one
72	Six dozen	Six times twelve
73	Queen bee	Rhymes with seventy-three
74	Candy store	Rhymes with seventy-four
75	Strive and strive	Rhymes with seventy-five
76	Trombones	Seventy-six Trombones, from the musical The Music Man
77	Sunset strip	The two sevens; from the TV show 77 Sunset Strip
78	Heaven's gate	Rhymes with seventy-eight
79	One more time	Rhymes with seventy-nine
80	Eight and blank	Said as it is written
81	Stop and run	Rhymes with eighty-one
82	Straight on through	Rhymes with eighty-two
83	Time for tea	Rhymes with eighty-three
84	Seven dozen	Seven times twelve
85	Staying alive	Rhymes with eighty-five
86	Between the sticks	Rhymes with eighty-six
87	Torquay in Devon	Rhymes with eighty-seven
88	Two fat ladies	The two eights look like two ladies; the room wolf-whistles
89	Nearly there	One short of the top
90	Top of the shop	The highest number

Halls differ: many numbers have two or three calls, and new ones appear every year. These are the most common.

Funny bingo calls

For a 75-ball game at school, at home or at work, where the old hall calls go over the room's head:

• B-4: B-4 you ask, no, it is not lunch yet
• B-9: B-9 and nobody gets hurt
• B-11: B-11, legs eleven, stretch them out
• I-16: I-16, sweet sixteen and never been called
• I-22: I-22, two little ducks, quack quack
• I-29: I-29, rise and shine, the coffee is fine
• N-31: N-31, get up and run, it is only number thirty-one
• N-42: N-42, the answer to everything, look it up
• N-44: N-44, droopy drawers, pull them up
• G-50: G-50, half a century, still going strong
• G-55: G-55, snakes alive, keep your daubers high
• G-57: G-57, ketchup on everything
• O-64: O-64, will you still need me when I am sixty-four
• O-69: O-69, either way up, just like my handwriting
• O-75: O-75, the last one in the cage, last call

How 75-ball calls work

American 75-ball bingo calls the column letter with the number: B 1-15, I 16-30, N 31-45, G 46-60, O 61-75. "B, 12" tells players which column to look in, which keeps a big game moving. The online caller shows and says the letter with every ball.