Bingo
Eyes down for a full house! 67, Made in Heaven - Two little ducks 22 - Legs 11 - you'll be calling 'em out like a pro with either of our delightful home bingo sets.
Wooden Bingo Set
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Designed to be suitable for events and parties, the product comes with a sturdy metal cage with handle, attractive wooden numbered bingo balls, a wooden ball caller's block and square Bingo scorecards with wooden markers. You'll be Kelly's Eye - Number One with the family when you play this Bingo game! Marking counters are used to cover the numbers as they come up so that the cards can be re-used. Comes with 25 scoring cards. This product contains small parts that represent a choking hazard for small children. Not suitable for children under 5 years old. Dimensions of the box it comes in: 32 x 26 x 26cm - (Approx: 12½" x 10¼" x 10¼") |
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Wooden Bingo set (75 balls) |
£25.13 | £28.90 | 1 + transit time | ||
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Cardinal Bingo Set
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This is a similar but more smaller and more economical set from Cardinal Industries. It is designed for families and home get-togethers, but probably not suitable for larger events. The product has a metal cage suspended in a wooden frame in such a way that the bingo balls come to rest at the bottom of a little wooden track. Includes square Bingo scorecards Comes with 70 different Bingo combination scoring cards and markers so that the cards can be re-used. This product contains small parts that represent a choking hazard for small children. Not suitable for children under 5 years old. Dimensions of the box it comes in: 12 x 10 x 10cm. |
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Home Bingo Set |
£16.43 | £18.90 | 1 + transit time | ||
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History of Bingo
A version of Lotto reached America in 1929 where it became known as "Beano" and was to be seen in country fairs, carnivals and other events of that nature. Around this time, Edwin S. Lowe, a salesman overhead someone shout "Bingo!" instead of "Beano!" upon winning, by mistake. He decided this was a much better name for the game and he undertook to re-launch a new version of the game called Bingo which was also improved by increasing the number of combinations of cards that could be played upon. American Bingo is still hugely popular to this day but is generally taken less seriously than in the UK and mostly events are organised as charitable fund-raising exercises.
In the UK, Bingo is taken more seriously. In 1960, a Gaming Act was passed by the British government that allowed gambling games to be played in members-only establishments and it was around that time that the game was brought over from America. This co-incided with the sudden availability of many large halls that had previously been used for cinema, theatre and social activities due to the rising popularity of television and some of these halls began to be used regularly and eventually exclusively as "Bingo Halls". The UK improved the Bingo "experience" by using special Bingo cabinets with numbered balls that were blown around with fans and the announcers, began to razzmatazz things up by using little rhymes when reading out the numbers.
Later electronic Random Number Generators (or the RNG) and more recently Internet Bingo replaced the original Bingo cabinets, but the game is still enormously popular in Britain where Bingo Halls are a way of life for many elderly people and for some their only means of meeting and socialising with others.
You can learn more about Bingo from The Online Guide to Traditional Games.