National Bingo Night | |
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Created by | Andrew Glassman |
Presented by | Ed Sanders |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | Glassman Media |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | May 18 – June 22, 2007 |
(WTAJ/CNN) — It’s your lucky day, today is National Bingo Day. Bingo roots go back to Italy in the mid-1500s, and another version was developed in France in the 1770s. The game used to be. Traditionally a US celebration, National Bingo Day is being launched in the UK for the first time in 2021 partly as a celebration of Mecca Bingo's 60th anniversary. The team at Mecca have been thinking of ways to mark the big occasion, and what better than getting the whole country together to celebrate their passion for all things bingo. The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation.
National Bingo Night is an Americangame show hosted by Ed Sanders which premiered on ABC on May 18, 2007, with a six-episode order. Sanders is known for his work on another ABC show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The show was cancelled by ABC and was repackaged as Bingo America on GSN, first hosted by Patrick Duffy, and in October 2008 by Richard Karn.
The creator of this program, Andrew Glassman, also created the reality television game Average Joe.
The game is an interactive experience for both the studio audience and viewers at home. On NBN, members of the studio audience attempted to win a game of bingo while competing with a solo studio contestant. For Bingo America, it is played as a straight general knowledge quiz format with two players and a home viewer bingo game within.
Home viewers play along with pre-printed game cards that are available from the network website just before each episode airs, and are also eligible to win prizes.
The show was expected to return for a five-episode run during the week of December 17, 2007,[1][2] but on November 13, 2007, ABC decided to replace it instead with its new game show, Duel. In 2008, the show was cancelled and was afterward shopped to other networks. Eventually GSN acquired the rights and the game was repackaged into a five-day-a-week 30-minute version with modifications listed below.
Gameplay[edit]
National Bingo Night[edit]
Each hour-long episode of NBN was divided into three games – Red, White, and Blue. Only cards with the correct designation were eligible to win prizes. Unlike the audience members, studio contestants did not actually have a bingo card. Instead, they participated in stunt games. During these games, they took guesses on what the next ball to be drawn from an oversized bingo drum will be. Generally, this took the form of odd or even, red or black numbers (originally red or black decals on the balls), or whether the next number is higher or lower than the previous one.
On at least two occasions, the stunt was to draw balls that contained a certain number, such as five 5's ('High Five'; drawing G-55 would count for two 5's) or four 9's ('Baseball')
If the contestant successfully completes the stunt before anyone in the studio audience gets a bingo, the contestant wins one of various prizes. If not, then an audience member wins $5,000 (or a prize the studio contestant failed to win on at least one occasion). In the event that the in-studio contestant completes their game and an audience member gets a bingo, only the audience member wins.
All games were winner-take-all. Non-winning contestants received nothing.
Bingo America[edit]
The format was later retooled as Bingo America and aired new episodes on GSN from March 31, 2008 to January 2, 2009. In the new format, two contestants competed on each show for a top prize of $100,000. The new version also included an at-home element in which viewers had the chance to win prizes.
References[edit]
National Bingo Day 2019
- ^Movie & TV News @ IMDb.com - Studio Briefing - 9 July 2007
- ^ABC Clears Card for Bingo Night - 7/9/2007 3:16:00 AM - Broadcasting & Cable
External links[edit]
- National Bingo Night at IMDb
- National Bingo Night at TV.com
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Eyes down, dabbers up – today, 27 June, is National Bingo Day.
Despite its reputation as something of a senior citizen pastime, the game has always had a special place in British culture and it doesn’t look like it’s going anywhere soon, with fans including the likes of Matthew McConaughey.
And when you can become a millionaire from playing the game, who wouldn’t fancy a chance?
Even though technically National Bingo Day is only being marked in the US, today is still a great excuse to learn who came up with bingo and how it became so popular in the UK.
How did bingo start?
It’s difficult to trace a definite origin of bingo, but most stories suggest that the game first began in Italy, originating from their traditional lottery game ‘Il Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia’ in the 1500s.
From there, the game was picked up by wealthy Frenchmen in the 1700s, who played a version known as ‘Le Lotto.’
This version featured 27 squares, laid out in three rows and nine columns. With numbers from 1-90 randomly arranged in the boxes, it’s this iteration that has grown into the game played in bingo halls and online today.
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Like today’s version, ‘Le Lotto’ saw a caller pick a wooden number token and read the number out loud.
If players had this number on their card, they’d cover it and the first to cover an entire horizontal line would be crowned the winner.
The term bingo – and the act of yelling out bingo when you had a full line – was thought to come from North America.
A traveller and toymaker, Edwin Lowe, saw people playing the game as it had grown from Le Lotto, in which they’d try to cover a line horizontally, vertically or diagonally with beans once the number had been called out.
When the lines were full, they shouted ‘beano!’
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He decided to make his own version of the game, introducing it to friends in New York using a rubber numbering stamp, a card board and dried beans.
As the game grew in popularity, it’s said that someone excitedly yelled Bingo instead of beano – and the bingo we know today was born.
Can bingo halls open on 4 July?
For anyone missing the game, Mecca – one of the biggest Bingo companies in the UK – confirmed 36 of their halls will reopen on 4 July.
The rest will have a staggered reopening throughout July and August.
Jonathon Swaine, managing director of retail at Mecca Bingo, said: ‘We want to reassure the Mecca Bingo community that we are working together to take every precaution necessary to create a safe environment in which to play the nation’s favourite game.
‘We’re also investing in new entertainment formats in our clubs, to give everyone even better experiences. We are excited to reopen our doors, welcome back our communities and hear “House” called once again.’
The list of Mecca halls reopening can be found here.
Where did the bingo calls come from and what are some common bingo calls?
As the game was quickly picked up and became a popular pastime in the UK, we put our own spin on it.
The numbers got nicknames, given to them through a combination of rhyming slang, historical references (for example – number 9 is Doctor’s Orders, because that was the slang given to laxatives by the troops) and tongue-in-cheek references.
To this day, bingo callers will call the numbers out in their own way – and it’s become something of a twee tradition.
Common bingo calls
- Kelly’s Eye
- One Little Duck
- Cup of Tea
- Knock at the Door
- Man Alive
- Tom Mix
- Lucky Seven
- Garden Gate
- Doctor’s Orders
- Cameron’s Den
- Legs 11
- One Dozen
- Unlucky for Some
- Valentine’s Day
- Young and Keen
- Sweet 16
- Dancing Queen
- Coming of Age
- Goodbye Teens
- One Score
- Royal Salute
- Two Little Ducks
- Thee and Me
- Two Dozen
- Duck and Dive
- Pick and Mix
- Gateway to Heaven
- Over Weight
- Rise and Shine
- Dirty Gertie
- Get Up and Run
- Buckle My Shoe
- Dirty Knee
- Ask for More
- Jump and Jive
- Three Dozen
- More than 11
- Christmas Cake
- Steps
- Naughty 40
- Time for Fun
- Winnie the Pooh
- Down on Your Knees
- Droopy Drawers
- Halfway There
- Up to Tricks
- Four and Seven
- Four Dozen
- PC
- Half a Century
- Tweak of the Thumb
- Danny La Rue
- Stuck in the Tree
- Clean the Floor
- Snakes Alive
- Was She Worth It?
- Heinz Varieties
- Make Them Wait
- Brighton Line
- Five Dozen
- Bakers Bun
- Turn the Screw
- Tickle Me 63
- Red Raw
- Old Age Pension
- Clickety Click
- Made in Heaven
- Saving Grace
- Either Way Up
- Three Score and 10
- Bang on the Drum
- Six Dozen
- Queen B
- Candy Store
- Strive and Strive
- Trombones
- Sunset Strip
- Heaven’s Gate
- One More Time
- Eight and Blank
- Stop and Run
- Straight On Through
- Time for Tea
- Seven Dozen
- Staying Alive
- Between the Sticks
- Torquay in Devon
- Two Fat Ladies
- Nearly There
- Top of the Shop
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