Bingo daubers are a bingo-player’s staple but be warned – in most cases, the ink is permanent so you might be in trouble if you accidentally dab your clothes. Getty When was the bingo dauber invented?Ī major flaw in using beans to mark your numbers was that a little nudge of the table would send them flying and ruin the game.Īnother solution was needed and in the late 19th century, a special pen that would cover the number in one quick dab was invented. In recent years, bingo has grown again in popularity – helped by the creation of online bingo. By 1986, the National Bingo Game was legalised and became hugely popular, until a dip in the early 00s, which coincided with the ban of smoking indoors. The game continued to spread throughout the working men's clubs of the north of England until it was finally formalised in the UK in 1968 through the UK Gaming Act. To cut through the tedium, comical bingo calls were invented. Players would sit with their cards in front of them, but the actual process of drawing numbers was incredibly laborious. Each one would have around 30-60 players but it was far cry from the fast-paced bingo we know today. Hart was known to police for running several illegal Housey Housey games back in 1937.
Peckham, in South-East London, became a hot-bed of Housey Housey action thanks to a man called Louis Hart. Illegal games started to pop up all over the country, over the next 20 years. Bringing it back home, bingo was a hit among both men and women in post-war Britain. Once the war was over, the British troops were reluctant to give up the game that had helped them pass so many bleak days.
Reports from World War I documents troops playing a very similar game called ‘Housey Housey’ in the trenches. The police were keen to shut these down with bingo, in its earliest form, becoming illegal. Their popularity quickly grew, with many illegal lottos popping up alongside the state-approved game. After the creation of a national lottery in Elizabethan times, games of chance were seen as a good route out of poverty. There is some suggestion that while all this was going on across the pond, us Brits were also developing our own form of bingo.
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