Press "Call" or the space bar to draw the first ball.
Check a claim
Someone shouts "house"? Type the numbers on their line or card and see if they have all been called.
A bingo caller has one job: say “legs eleven” and “two fat ladies” with a straight face so everybody else can play. At a home game that’s usually the person who’d rather be playing, so let this one do it instead. It draws each ball at random, shows it big enough to read across a room, and reads it out loud, nickname and all.
It’s free and it runs in your browser, on a laptop plugged into the telly or a phone propped against the fruit bowl.
Running a game with the bingo caller
Choose 90-ball or 75-ball, then press “Call” (or the space bar) for each ball. Prefer to sit back? Hit “Auto” and pick how long it waits between calls. Five seconds is brisk. Twelve suits a table of grandparents, and twenty is for a room full of kids who keep losing their pens.
The board underneath lights up every number that’s out, and the last few calls sit next to the ball so nobody has to ask “what was that?”. Called something by mistake? “Undo” puts the last ball back. The game is saved in your browser too, so a refreshed page doesn’t wipe the whole round.
Checking a claim
When someone shouts, type the numbers from their line or card into “Check a claim”. It tells you straight away whether every number has been called, and which ones haven’t if it’s a false alarm. No more reading the board back while everyone waits.
For 90-ball, the usual order is one line, two lines, then a full house. For 75-ball agree a pattern before you start: a line, four corners, an X, or the whole card.
Voice and the traditional calls
The voice uses whatever speech your device has built in, so it’ll sound a bit different on an iPhone, an Android or a Windows laptop. If you can’t hear anything, check the volume and, on an iPhone, the silent switch. Untick “Voice” to run it silently.
For 90-ball you can turn the old calls on or off. A few favourites:
- 1 Kelly’s eye, 7 Lucky seven, 11 Legs eleven
- 22 Two little ducks, 45 Halfway there, 57 Heinz varieties
- 66 Clickety click, 88 Two fat ladies, 90 Top of the shop
Some calls vary from hall to hall (10 used to be named after whoever was Prime Minister). The 75-ball game just calls the letter and number, like “B 6” or “N 42”, which is how it’s done.
Need cards? The bingo card generator prints random 75-ball cards and proper 90-ball strips.