Bingo (United Kingdom) but 'red seventeen'. This means that the numbers can be called a lot faster by the caller (usually around 1.5 seconds a number). In most UK bingo clubs, including most Gala Bingo clubs, mechanised cash bingo is played on a plastic board which has small windows which are used to cover up the numbers when they are called. In all Mecca Bingo clubs, bingo cards are built into the table tops and the numbers are covered up using small plastic chips. The company involved will then use a computer (called a stage rig controller) to automatically take a "participation fee"
Bingo Bans the Bomb Bingo Bans the Bomb "Bingo Bans the Bomb" is a short story by British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse and part of the Drones Club canon. It was published in "Playboy" magazine in the US in January 1965, and in "Argosy" magazine in the UK in August 1965. The story was also included in the 1966 collection "Plum Pie". In the story, the Drones Club member Bingo Little is pulled into a protest by an impulsive girl named Mabel, and they get arrested for obstructing traffic. Bingo has to find a way out of trouble after his wife Rosie sees