Talk:bingo

Possible missing noun sense

In child-free communities "bingo" is a derogatory term for people who come up with obvious rebuttals as to why one should have children (i.e. buzzword bingo). You might find it on Usenet. Certainly on Reddit. I don't know if it meets CFI. Equinox ◑ 10:44, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

the dog might be older than the game

Personally i'd always assumed the Bingo game was quite old, but perhaps I'm wrong. What we do know, though, is that the children's song about a dog goes back all the way to 1785, and it's likely that it goes back further than that, as well. If we assume that the game is relatively modern, then the dog was likely named after the wine sense, and not the game. This would make sense given the use of stingo later in the same song. I would like to cite the alcohol sense to 1785, but strictly speaking we can't prove that the dog was named for the alcohol sense. —Soap— 00:00, 28 February 2021 (UTC)

could bingo the game be from a child's mispronunciation of the similar word beano? that's the story i heard once, .... i didnt really think much of it until just now when i realized that beano is attested since 1912 (though in the sense "bean supper", not the game) and bingo only since 1925. A small child familiar with the nursery rhyme surrounded by adults playing the game at a bean supper might have confused the two words, and then watched the new word catch on "because it's cuter that way" especially if, then as now, most bingo players were elderly men and women looking to re-live old times. —Soap— 12:11, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

according to Wikipedia, the person who mispronounced beano as bingo was a woman, probably of similar age to the other players in the room, and to me that makes it harder to believe. Why would they "honor" this woman by changing the name of the game, everywhere and forever, to make fun of her mistake? Not that I'd love it if we were making fun of a kid either, but it's just human nature to find kids' mistakes to be understandable and similar mistakes from people our own age to be shameful. —Soap— 22:36, 28 April 2024 (UTC)

Definition

"A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid." So if I understand it correctly then, if one person calls out "bingo", and then a second person calls out bingo a couple of seconds later, only the first person wins a prize? Is that correct? (It's just that an example for one of the definitions further down mentions the possibility of multiple winners. Is that only when the cries of "bingo" are simultaneous?)

yes, there can only be one winner in traditional games of bingo. there are a lot of informal variations, .... sometimes everyone wins ... especially if youre playing with kids or if the prize is something that people donated and which wasn't expensive anyway. For them the fun is in the play, not the stress of competiiton. But this is all detailed at Wikipedia ... we can't pack an entire Wikipedia article into a definition. —Soap— 12:19, 26 April 2024 (UTC)