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These are the most common misspellings of the word, “Foxy“;

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Online bingo players enjoy the banter. Socialising is one of the main attractions of a local Bingo Hall and online it’s no different. Joan recommends finding Bingo sites with chat functions to really get to love this game. I enjoy the banter as much as I do the game, so, here is a list of the common slang terms your likely to find in a Bingo chat room.

Lingo Meaning

AFK away from keyboard
A/S or A/S/L age/sex age/sex/location
BAK Back At Keyboard
BBL Be Back Later
BRB Be Right Back
BTU Back To You
FWIW For What Its Worth
GGP Gotta Go Pee
GL2U Good Luck To You
GR8 Great
HB Hurry Back
IRL In Real Life
IMO / IMHO In My Opinion / In My Humble Opinion
LOL Laughing Out Loud
OTFL On The Floor Laughing
R Are
ROFL Rolling On the Floor Laughing
TY Thankyou
U You
WB Welcome Back
WTG Way To Go
YW / YVW You’re Welcome / You’re Very Welcome
1TG/2TG/3TG 1 To Go/ 2 To Go/ 3 To Go etc.,(number left to get Bingo)

AFK, (away from keyboard) usually means I’ve popped out for a smoke or am boiling the kettle. It’s a good one to use if you need to leave for a short period.

Have fun! - Joan Bingo

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Bingo is a great social game that can be played for money or fun.

UK Bingo

• The version of Bingo in the UK plays with the numbers between 1 and 90. You play bingo with tickets, each of which is made up of three rows and nine columns.
• There are 5 numbers in a row and every ticket has 15 numbers.

Bingo Books

• When you are playing bingo, a “book” can be bought, as these books are a group that has 6 tickets with all 90 numbers.
• A single book has 10 pages with 10 cards, each with a different colour: gold, violet, green, yellow, orange, blue, red, pink, white, and grey. As well as books, there are also bingo sheets, which are single cards with 6 sections on the 6 cards that are called “flyers”.
• Flyers cost more for a bingo game than books, but the prizes tend to be worth more if the player wins.

Bingo On and Off-Line

• Bingo can be played at large multinational bingo parlours and smaller bingo halls across the UK as well as online.
  The caller of the bingo game will randomly pick numbers and then call them out to the players. The player must mark out the number if it appears on their ticket. Generally, players use crayons or bingo daubers in order to mark out the number using light colours that so the player can tell that the number is marked off. Nowadays they use advanced electronic boards in the chain bingo halls.

How to Win at Playing Bingo

• To win a game of bingo, one of three things must happen: the player gets all 5 numbers in the first row of their ticket, the player gets 5 numbers in both the first and second line of the ticket, or the player gets all the numbers in the 3 lines, which is called a “full house”.
• When playing bingo and one of the three winning scenarios occurs, the bingo player has to call out “house” in order to claim their win.
• If a player gets all five numbers in the first row, the bingo game ceases so the win can be validated. The bingo game then continues on until the time when all three lines on a ticket have been won. In order to claim a multiple win, the lines have to be on the same bingo ticket. Then, the pool for the prize is split between the three winning combinations. The biggest portion of the winnings will go to the player that has the “full house”.

Originating in the United States, bingo was called “beano“. A dealer would select numbered discs from a cigar box and players would mark their cards with beans. They called “beano” if they won.

Bingo’s history can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called “Lo Giuoco del Lotto D’Italia,” this is still played every Saturday in Italy. From Italy the game was introduced to the French in the late 1770s, where it was called “Le Lotto“, a game played among wealthy Frenchmen. Germans also played an educational version of the game in the 1800s, to help students learn mathematics, spelling and history.

The game reached North America in 1929 and became known as “beano”. It was first played at a carnival near Atlanta in Georgia. N.Y toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe named it from “beano” to “bingo” after he heard someone accidentally shout, “bingo” instead of “beano”. A Columbia University mathematics professor, Carl Leffler, was employed to help him increase the number of combinations in bingo cards. By 1930, Leffler had invented 6,000 different bingo cards, (Legend says that Leffler then went bonkers.)

A priest from Pennsylvania approached Lowe about how bingo could be used as a means of raising funds for the Catholic church. After bingo started being played in churches it became increasingly popular. In 1934, an estimated 10,000 bingo games were played weekly in North America!

So, there you have it. The History of Bingo from Joan!

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Much of the terms, (Lingo) used in bingo are simply based upon rhyming slang, similar to the kind used by Cockney’s in the East End of London England. For example, “Heaven’s Gate” is 78, simple right? You can make up your own if you wish and there are many variations used around different bingo halls.

Equally simple to understand are the bingo terms based upon the shape of the numbers. For example 8 looks like a fat lady, hence 88 is “Two Fat ladies”. Equally, 2 looks like the neck of a swan, so 22 is “Two Little Ducks”, 7 is a little crutch, 3 is a flea and so on. Mixing two numbers you end up with things like 87 - “Fat Lady on Crutches”! Other bingo sayings have these number shapes at their root, you just need to work backwards, for example, “Wobbly Wobbly” is 88…which is also “Two Fat Ladies”…getting it?

• 1. Kelly’s eye / At the beginning / Nelson’s column
• 2. One little duck / Me and you
• 3. You and me / Cup of tea / One Little Flea
• 4. Knock at the door / B4 (and after)
• 5. Man alive
• 6. Tom’s tricks / Tom Nix / Chopsticks
• 7. Lucky seven / God’s in heaven
• 8. One Fat Lady / Golden gate
• 9. Doctor’s orders
• 10. Gordon’s Den
  11. Legs eleven
  12. One dozen, One and two - a dozen, Monkey’s cousin (rhymes with “a dozen”)
  13. Unlucky for some, Devil’s number, Bakers dozen
  14. Valentines day
  15. Rugby team, Young and keen
  16. Sweet sixteen / She’s lovely / Never been kissed
  17. Often been kissed / The age to catch ‘em / Dancing Queen
  18. Key of the door / Coming of age
  19. Goodbye teens
• 20. Getting plenty / Blind 20
  21. Key of the door
  22. Two little ducks / All the twos
  23. Thee and me / The Lord is my Shepherd
  24. Two dozen
  25. Duck and dive
  26. Bed and breakfast / Half a crown / Pick and mix
  27. Little duck with a crutch / Gateway to heaven
  28. In a state / Over weight
  29. You’re doing fine
• 30. Burlington Bertie / Dirty Gertie / Speed limit / Flirty thirty / Blind 30
  31. Get up and run
  32. Buckle my Shoe
  33. Dirty knees / All the threes / All the feathers / Two little fleas / Sherwood Forest
  34. Ask for more
  35. Jump and jive
  36. Three dozen
  37. A flea in heaven
  38. Christmas cake
  39. Those famous steps
• 40. Naughty Forty
  41. Time for fun
  42. That famous street in Manhattan / Whinny the Pooh
  43. Down on your knees
  44. Droopy drawers / All the fours
  45. Halfway house / Halfway there
  46. Up to tricks
  47. Four and seven
  48. Four dozen
  49. PC (Police Constable) / Copper / Nick nick
• 50. Bulls eye / Blind 50 / Half a century
  51. Tweak of the thumb
  52. Weeks in a year / Danny La Rue
  53. Stuck in the tree
  54. Clean the floor
  55. Snakes alive / All the fives
  56. Was she worth it?
  57. Heinz varieties
  58. Make them wait / Choo choo Thomas
  59. Brighton line
• 60. Three score / Blind 60 / Five dozen
  61. Bakers bun
  62. Tickety boo / Turn on the screw
  63. Tickle me
  64. Red raw / The Beatles number
  65. Old age pension
  66. Clickety click / All the sixes
  67. Made in heaven / Argumentative number
  68. Saving grace
  69. The same both ways / your place or mine / Either way up / Meal for two
• 70. Three score and ten / Blind 70
  71. Bang on the drum
  72. A crutch and a duck / Six dozen / Par for the course
  73. Crutch and a flea / Queen B
  74. Candy store
  75. Strive and strive
  76. Trombones
  77. Sunset strip / All the sevens / Two little crutches
  78. Heavens gate
  79. One more time
• 80. Gandhi’s breakfast / Blind 80 / Eight and blank
  81. Fat lady and a little wee / Stop and run
  82. Fat lady with a duck / Straight on through
  83. Fat lady with a flea / Time for tea / Ethel’s Ear
  84. Seven dozen
  85. Staying alive
  86. Between the sticks
  87. Fat lady with a crutch / Torquay in Devon
  88. Two fat ladies / All the eights / Wobbly wobbly
  89. Nearly there / All but one
• 90. Top of the shop / Top of the house / Blind 90 / End of the line

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“Welcome, I’m Joan Bingo.

I always enjoyed going to the local Bingo hall. But the last few years I’ve discovered online Bingo, it’s both exciting and rewarding for me.

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The fine is the highest penalty imposed on the broadcaster by U.K. media watchdog Ofcom, the regulator said in a statement e-mailed today.

“The investigations found that in some cases, the production team had taken pre-mediated decisions to broadcast competitions and encourage listeners to enter in the full knowledge that the audience stood no chance of winning”.

The BBC, which is predominantly funded through imposed license fees paid by British households with TV’s, said in a separate statement it accepted the fine.

The BBC continued; “Whilst we must never be complacent and must remain constantly vigilant, audience research suggests the comprehensive action we have taken is rebuilding the trust of viewers and listeners”.