Bingo Calls

One of the cool traditions in bingo that has been carried over to online bingo has to do with the calling of the numbers themselves. If bingo numbers were just called out on their own with no emphasis and no nickname, they wouldn’t be very intriguing at all. This is why the people who made online bingo popular developed some cool nicknames for various numbers. If you happen to play online bingo with some older individuals, you’ll likely hear them recall the older times when the numbers were called out in this way.

One of the coolest nicknames for numbers in online bingo is for the number 30. Standing all alone, 30 is a pretty mundane number. It has no earthy tones that would make an online bingo player excited. This is prime evidence as to why the people who made the game popular took so much time to try to change the numbers into interesting names. The online bingo nickname for 30 is “speed limit”. In this online bingo nickname, we can see some of the old traditions shining through. If you were to ask someone what the most common speed limit were today, they almost certainly would give you a different answer. In the old times, this was commonplace, though.

Online bingo players of today cannot identify with this type of thinking because, simply put, it comes from an older time. Because of this, we see an online bingo trend where there is more than one name for each of the numbers. If an online bingo player can’t associate the phrase “speed limit” with the number 30, then why would that be an effective naming tool? With that in mind, there are nicknames like blind thirty and flirty thirty to go along with the aforementioned speed limit.

These nicknames are really quite self-explanatory when it comes to their meaning. Flirty thirty is aptly named because of the rhyme that makes it such a catchy phrase. Still, there are probably some cultural references there as well that online bingo players can pick up on. This number, in my mind, refers to the nature of people when they get into their thirties. If a person is not married by age 30, they might have a tendency to try to attract a person and in doing this, they might be labeled as a little bit more flirty than the average person.