Numbers for Prize Bingo

The first introduction of cards with coloured lines were at the seaside were games were played for prizes this was then copied on fairgrounds, with 75 numbers in 5 sections each 15 dived numbers are colour matched to lines on the cards, thus making it easier to find the numbers as they are called. The most traditional colour set is Red, Yellow, Blue, White through to Green, this is the system that was copied by the Americans but instead of colours they used the word Bingo thus Red became B, Yellow became I, Blue became N and so on.

Above a modern Style Seaside Bingo Card

As you see from the above modern card are shutters to mark of the numbers as they are called but originally wood tokens were used then bottle top caps and even some fairgrounds today still have cards where you have to use bottle tops to cover your numbers.

Click on the groups of 15 numbers below for each number and the way they were called.