Lottoland Advert
New Lottoland Advert It's just after 11 am and I'm at the Apple Store in Newcastle on a School trip with my son's class. I step out to take a call... "Do you have lottery balls?" "Yes, we have several professional sets. We can ship them to you, too. When and where do you need them?" "We need them today, in London. We fly off to Kosovo for filming early tomorrow morning. Can you deliver them today?" "Yes!" And two hours later, I was driving to London with one of our new sets of Lottery Balls. Imagine This Creative Studio needed the balls for a Lottoland advert. Our new sets are verified balls and come with a [...]
WWI Bingo Game
https://youtu.be/a3zygaNgOfU?si=McO6p0CEozrRVahZ A very old bingo game from sometime around the First World War, made by East Hull Press. If you know anything about East Hull Press let me know in the comments
Bingo is the Perfect Tool for Training
Compass Group, One Retail, annual managers’ conference use The Monet Bingo Machine to break up their day and raise much-needed cash for the Alzheimer's Society. According to research, playing bingo requires concentration and listening skills, and by exercising these, you sharpen your cognitive abilities. The game can help you improve your business events and training. Bingo is a brilliant educational tool. In fact, for over 150 years, we have used it as a teaching tool. If you have kids, I bet you have a bug, animal, or picture-based bingo game amongst their toys. There is a very good reason for that: it is a fun way to learn and reinforce knowledge. But on a deeper [...]
90 Number Bingo Tickets Explained
Each ticket or House has three rows and nine columns with 15 numbers and 12 spaces. Five numbers per row. Tickets are usually printed six-up on a sheet, sometimes 12. A strip of six has all numbers 1 to 90 (15 numbers per house x 6 = 90). So a strip of 12 tickets has all the numbers twice. The first column has the numbers 1 to 9, The second column 10 to 19, The third 20 to 29, The fourth 30 to 39, The fifth 40 to 49, The sixth 50 to 59, The seventh 60 to 69, The eighth 70 to 79 And the final ninth column has the numbers 80 to 90. Once you understand [...]
Scotland’s Last Fairground Bingo
Scotland's Last Fairground Bingo Hancock's Bingo are also the Last to Play 100-Number Bingo
Bingo in the First World War
Bingo Heroes: Arthur Charles Bannington One of the earliest and best descriptions of Bingo was written by Arthur Charles Bannington. In the First World War, he joined the Motorised Machine Gun Corps (later the Tank Corps) and was at Ypres and Cambrai. His description of Bingo, or House as it was called then, was published in a Coventry newspaper in 1917 while he was still serving on the front line. First to State Zero Numbers are Blind Arthur Charles Bannington, from his 1918 Election Leaflet He is the first to state that numbers ending in zero are called 'blind' and to explain why nicknames are used: "To prevent eleven being confused with seven he [...]