In some clubs, the 'bingo caller' will say the number, with the assembled players intoning the rhyme in a call and response manner, in others, the caller will say the rhyme and the players chant the number. The nicknames are sometimes known by the rhyming phrase 'bingo lingo' and there are rhymes for each number from 1 to 90, some of which date back many decades. In the game of bingo in the United Kingdom, callers announcing the numbers have traditionally used some nicknames to refer to particular numbers if they are drawn. This is a list of British bingo nicknames. JSTOR ( June 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "List of British bingo nicknames" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. As this is probably an Apple limitation I don’t hold this against the app, but it is a promise somewhat unfulfilled.Īnyway, a brilliantly simple yet fully-featured app for calling and/or displaying bingo games.This article needs additional citations for verification. We couldn’t get it to work consistently: sometimes it hides, other times it shows, and it seems to be very laggy if it even responds. The ability to hide the control buttons in the top row when you are using an external screen is brilliant, but it is also flaky. As we were calling out the numbers over a mic we didn’t need the app to read them out anyway.Ģ. The voice reading of the numbers is great EXCEPT when the iPad or iPhone is also driving a speaker (wired or Bluetooth) and you don’t want to interrupt the music. Allow the ability to turn off all sounds.
Two suggestions which would really make the app perfect:ġ. We actually used a physical bingo cage to choose the numbers so it was nice the way the app allowed us to just record the numbers too. We projected the app onto a big screen and everyone was a big fan of having that visual cue! We used this for a school bingo night to help young children and those for whom English is a second language to make sure they got the right numbers. None of them compare to this simple yet beautifully efficient app! You can pay, get banner ads, sent to Safari for ads, etc. There are other bingo-calling apps out there.
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