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Bingo and Housie
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:21 pm
by jhopgood
Just been in the village square playing Bingo when I was asked about the origin of the name.
Having discovered that someone called out Bingo instead of Beano, the original name of the game, it mentions that the UK version is also known as Housie. However there is no information on where the Bingo version of Housie originated, so I wondered whether it might have been some old game played in CH.
Any thoughts?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:49 pm
by midget
Housie Housie (or possibly Housey) in the navy.
Maggie
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:25 pm
by J.R.
My maternal Grand-Mother also referred to it as Lotto !
Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 8:17 pm
by midget
There was something called Lotto in the "Compendium of Games" I had one Christmas
Maggie
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:09 am
by cj
midget wrote:There was something called Lotto in the "Compendium of Games" I had one Christmas
Maggie
Ditto.
As in, I had one too, not a game called Ditto. That might be a bit like Snap. Isn't 'compendium' a good word? Not used often enough in the course of everyday conversation. Also (ditto) 'comestible'.
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 5:45 pm
by Vonny
We'll be playing Bingo on our trip to Devon
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 9:31 pm
by cj
I've never played Bingo. I wanted to play it at our wedding reception but The Old Bloke Indoors said "No" quite firmly and I capitulated. We had a quiz instead, one question of which was "What is orange and sounds like a parrot?" Answer "A carrot!"
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:59 pm
by Vonny
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:50 am
by cj
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:36 pm
by Eruresto
Mrs. Fleming plays Villa Villa with her GCSE latin sets. Much fun, though I rarely win
I did, however, have exceedingly jammy luck once with custom made cards: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14 and 15!
I always thought she called it Villa Villa because of House(y) House(y)...
