The Full List of Rude Bingo Calls 1-90
Here’s the thing nobody admits about rude bingo calls. The traditional board was never clean to begin with. Legs Eleven comes with a wolf whistle attached, the official calls for 69 are “either way up” and “any way round”, and Dirty Gertie has been sitting at number 30 since the war. Hardly PG friendly.
What follows is the full ninety for callers who’d rather stop pretending, plus the history the polite lists skip. If you’re reading over someone’s shoulder, that’s on you.
Call the middle column and let the third one brief you. Where the traditional call was already doing the job, we’ve left it alone and said so, because you can’t improve on sixty years of front. Everything else is ours. The room’s response is your problem.
| Number | Call | Caller’s notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | First Base | Further than most get at a bingo night |
| 2 | Me and You, Number Two | The caller’s proposition. Politely decline |
| 3 | Knee Trembler | Ask your nan what it means. Actually don’t |
| 4 | On All Fours | Rhymes with door. Stops rhyming after that |
| 5 | Skinny Dive | Trunks optional |
| 6 | Six on the Pull | The table’s singles, identified |
| 7 | Seventh Heaven, Her Place | Heaven has relocated |
| 8 | Stopped Out All Night | The walk-of-shame ball |
| 9 | One Glass of Wine | Famous last words |
| 10 | Hen Night Ten | The loudest table in the room |
| 11 | Legs Eleven | Untouched. The original wolf whistle |
| 12 | One Dirty Dozen | Dirtier than the film |
| 13 | Unlucky in Lust | Someone at the table just nodded |
| 14 | Valentine’s Regret | February’s mistake, still texting |
| 15 | Fifteen Pints In | Nobody’s counting |
| 16 | Sixteen, Says the Scales | The polite fiction |
| 17 | Drag Queen Seventeen | Drag bingo’s house number |
| 18 | First Legal Hangover | A rite of passage |
| 19 | Goodbye Teens, Hello Tinder | Swipe carefully |
| 20 | Getting Plenty | The canon was at it first |
| 21 | Standing to Attention | The 21-gun salute, reimagined |
| 22 | Two Ducks Getting Lucky | Quack quack indeed |
| 23 | Thee, Me and a Bottle of Wine | Psalm not included |
| 24 | Twenty-Four-Hour Party | Pace yourself |
| 25 | Duck Out Early Together | Nobody noticed |
| 26 | Bed and Breakfast | The real call. What happens between the two courses is your business |
| 27 | Gateway to Heaven | Also the real call |
| 28 | In a Right State | Taxi for twenty-eight |
| 29 | Rise and Shine, Whoever You Are | Introductions can wait |
| 30 | Dirty Gertie | Unimproved since the war, and she earned the name |
| 31 | Get Up and Run | He’s married |
| 32 | Unbuckle My Shoe | Start at the shoe |
| 33 | Weak at the Knees | All the threes will do that |
| 34 | Gagging for More | Oliver grew up |
| 35 | Jump and Misbehave | The jive got frisky |
| 36 | Three Dozen Excuses | She’s heard every one |
| 37 | More Than a Handful | So they say |
| 38 | Stayed for Breakfast | The good sign |
| 39 | The Steps to Her Place | All thirty-nine of them |
| 40 | Naughty Forty | The canon admitted it at forty |
| 41 | Time for Fun | Read it how you like |
| 42 | One Nightcap Too Many | It’s never just a nightcap |
| 43 | Down on Your Knees | The army swore it meant praying |
| 44 | Droopy Drawers | Always was about the underwear |
| 45 | Halfway Out of the Dress | Zips stick at forty-five |
| 46 | Up to Dirty Tricks | What were they? |
| 47 | As Heaven Made You | Rhymes with seven, dresses with nothing |
| 48 | Four Dozen Roses | He’s very, very sorry |
| 49 | Copping Off | PC 49 pulls at last |
| 50 | Fifty and Frisky | Halfway to a century and still trying |
| 51 | Tweak of Anything | The thumb was a starting point |
| 52 | Danny La Rue | Left exactly as we found it. Drag before drag bingo existed |
| 53 | Three’s Not a Crowd | So we’re told |
| 54 | Knickers on the Floor | Rhymes with fifty-four. Beautiful poetry |
| 55 | Trouser Snakes Alive | You heard |
| 56 | Missed the Last Bus Home | Accidentally on purpose |
| 57 | Fifty-Seven Varieties | Of what, madam? |
| 58 | Make Him Wait | Solid advice |
| 59 | Dirty Weekend in Brighton | What the Brighton Line was always for |
| 60 | Sixty and Still At It | Good for them |
| 61 | Baker’s Buns | His, hers, the baker’s |
| 62 | Turn Down the Bed | The canon said screw first, we just tidied up |
| 63 | Tickle Me Anywhere | Bold of you, sixty-three |
| 64 | Red Raw | We didn’t ask |
| 65 | Still Got It at Sixty-Five | And using it |
| 66 | Click and Swipe Right | Clickety Click found the apps |
| 67 | Stairway to Heaven, Second Date | Depends on the stairs |
| 68 | No Saving Grace | Shame retired at sixty-eight |
| 69 | The One We Needn’t Explain | The real calls are “either way up” and “any way round”. That was already the joke |
| 70 | Three Score and Still Game | Game for what? Exactly |
| 71 | Bang On All Night | The drum, allegedly |
| 72 | Love Bites at Seventy-Two | Scarves in summer |
| 73 | Up for Coffee | Nobody is making coffee |
| 74 | Lock the Door | You know why |
| 75 | Five Times a Night | He claims |
| 76 | Blow Your Own Trumpet | All seventy-six of them |
| 77 | Strip at Seventy-Seven | The canon named it Sunset Strip. It was asking for this |
| 78 | Round Two Upstairs | Number 39’s sequel, same staircase |
| 79 | One More Time | Go on then |
| 80 | Gone Streaking | It was a dare |
| 81 | Caught in the Act | Hence the standard call, Stop and Run |
| 82 | Straight Through Till Morning | No sleep at eighty-two |
| 83 | Netflix and Chill | Rhymes with eighty-three, near enough |
| 84 | Seven Dozen Ways to Misbehave | Pick one |
| 85 | Hair of the Dog | Big night, bigger morning |
| 86 | Between the Sheets | The goalkeeper’s night off |
| 87 | Dirty Stop-Out in Devon | Torquay’s finest |
| 88 | Two Fat Ladies | The call they keep failing to ban. More on that below |
| 89 | Nearly There | He said |
| 90 | The Full Monty | A full house and the full reveal |
Like the list? You can print it here with our PDF version.
The Innuendo That Was Always There
Every polite bingo site publishes the traditional list as though it were a hymn sheet, then writes a separate “rude” page as though smut arrived with the internet. Read the old board properly, and the case falls apart. Getting Plenty sat at 20 for decades without anyone asking plenty of what. Was She Worth It, the old call for 76, is a joke about paying for a marriage licence that gets bluer the longer you think about it. Droopy Drawers never had an innocent reading, and 69’s official calls were a nudge and a wink dressed as arithmetic.
So the list above is just the tradition with the volume turned up. The callers of the sixties worked blue for the same reason party hosts do now, because a room that’s laughing keeps buying tickets, and the only real difference is how much they could get away with saying out loud.
Our main bingo calls list tells the full story, rude corners included.
The Calls They Keep Failing to Ban
Every couple of years a story does the rounds that Two Fat Ladies has been banned as offensive. Chase the coverage, and it always thins out. A radio phone-in debates it, a poll finds most players want it kept, one venue somewhere swaps its calls for topical gags, and the newspapers write it up as the death of tradition. Meanwhile the clubs carry on, and the room still shouts back.
The pattern repeats with every modernising push. Brands roll out refreshed calls about dating apps and celebrities, the novelty lasts a season, and the board quietly reverts, because Two Little Ducks has outlived every replacement written for it. The blue calls survive for the same reason. You can retire a call from the official sheet, but you can’t retire it from a room that’s been answering it for forty years.
Where Rude Bingo Actually Gets Called
Not at the main session, for a start. The big chains run their headline games on plain numbers at speed, and the regulars prefer it that way. The rude calls live where bingo is a party. The rave-style bingo nights run whole sets on it, drag bingo has made an art form of it, and it’s the default at hen dos, holiday parks after the kids’ slot, and any works Christmas do where someone’s found a bingo machine. Our Christmas calls page covers the festive end of the same tradition, including the grown-up round.
And a note for anyone who landed here looking for Innuendo Bingo. The old Radio 1 game, where guests held mouthfuls of water through suggestive audio clips, is a different game entirely and needs no caller’s sheet. Just a towel, and a straight face.
The habit barely exports, either. What American and Australian callers actually say is a much shorter story, and our international bingo calls page tells it.
Run a Rude Round at Your Own Night
The trick with a blue round is placement. Open with a clean game while people settle, run the rude set once the drinks are moving, and read the room before number three comes out of the bag. A hen do wants the full list. A family party wants about a third of it, and our Christmas page has the gentler grown-up set for exactly that crowd. This one’s never for when the kids are around!
Deliver every call deadpan and repeat the plain number after it. Most of the room hears the punchline, not the number, and the rest will pretend they didn’t.
Tickets come free from our bingo card generator if you want to play along. There are proper strips of six, so print a stack for the whole hen do, and prizes should embarrass the winner just enough. Nobody forgets winning a bottle of baby oil at their auntie’s sixtieth, lovely jubbly!
Print the Rude Caller’s Sheet
Ninety rude calls is a lot to hold in your head after a few proseccos. The printable version puts the lot on two sides of A4 with tick-boxes, so you can mark off what’s been drawn and prove what was actually said. Side two comes blank, ready for the calls your own crowd invents, which will be worse than ours. Print it on card and keep it off the fridge door.