If you're going to play bingo, you need to learn the terms used! All the numbers have a special catchphrase linked to them. Some are very well know, such as Legs 11, Two Fat Ladies for 88 and Two Little Ducks for 22. But there are lots more; here's a complete list. Some phrases are more popular in the UK, others are more US based. Some are a bit rude!!
| Number |
Catchphrase |
| 1 |
Kelly's Eye or On its Own or At the Beginning or Start the Game or Number one, just begun |
| 2 |
One Little Duck |
| 3 |
Cup of Tea or One Little Flea or My Little Fly or Dixie Lee |
| 4 |
Knock at the Door |
| 5 |
Man Alive or Jack's alive |
| 6 |
Just a Click or Chopsticks |
| 7 |
Lucky for Some or Hope in Heaven |
| 8 |
One Fat Lady or The Garden Gate |
| 9 |
Doctor's Orders ("Number 9 pill") |
| 10 |
(Forename of current UK prime minister)'s Den or Big Ben or Cock and Hen or Downing Street |
| 11 |
Chicken Legs or Legs Eleven |
| 13 |
Unlucky for Some or Lucky for Some |
| 16 |
Sweet Sixteen |
| 17 |
Never Been Kissed |
| 21 |
Key of the Door |
| 22 |
Two Little Ducks or All The Twos or Dinky Doo |
| 23 |
Thee and Me |
| 24 |
Two Dozen |
| 26 |
Half a Crown or Pick and Mix or bed and breakfast |
| 30 |
Dirty Gertie |
| 33 |
Come in For Ya Tea or all the threes or Feathers |
| 37 |
More Than Eleven |
| 38 |
You're Late!! or Top Date! |
| 39 |
All the steps (from the Novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps") |
| 40 |
Over the Hill |
| 44 |
Droopy Drawers or All the fours |
| 45 |
Halfway There |
| 50 |
Bulls eye or Blind 50 or Halfway House or Hawaii |
| 51 |
Tweak of the Thumb |
| 55 |
Snakes Alive or All the Fives |
| 57 |
Heinz Varieties |
| 59 |
The Brighton Line (Accompanied by action of pulling train whistle and shouting Woo! Woo!) |
| 64 |
Red Raw or knock on the door or you're poor or cats paw |
| 66 |
Clickety-Click or All the sixes |
| 69 |
Thats Rude or Two can chew |
| 71 |
Bang on the Drum |
| 72 |
In for a Poo |
| 76 |
7 and 6 - Was she worth it? or Trombones (from 'The Music Man') |
| 77 |
All the sevens or Seventy plus Seven |
| 79 |
One More Time or Seventy Plus Nine |
| 81 |
Stop and Run or Cinnamon Bun |
| 86 |
Between the Sticks or Dogs Dicks |
| 88 |
Two Fat Ladies or All The Eights |
| 90 |
Top of the Shop or Top of the House |