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Bingo may refer to: Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Housie. ... Bing Bing! Bingo is a Japanese Bingo game released in 1993 for the Super Famicom. ... The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES (also called SNES and Super Nintendo) was a 16-bit video game console released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia, and Brazil between 1990 and 1993. ... Housie is a gambling game played in New Zealand, Australia and the UK, where it is called Bingo. ... // Online bingo is the game of bingo (US|UK) played on the Internet. ... This article describes the lottery game. ... Bingo is a gambling card game named by analogy to the board game bingo. ... Bingo (備後国 -no kuni) was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of western Honshu, comprising what is today the eastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture. ... Bingo is a department in the province of Boulkiemdé, west of Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. ... Departments of Burkina Faso The provinces of Burkina Faso are divided into at least 100departments. ... Look up Bingo wings in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Bingo is a slang term used in Scrabble when a player uses all seven letters in one play. ...

Acronym

  • Big International Non-Government Organisation

Big International Non-Government Organisation (BINGO) is an often derogatory term applied to larger non-governmental organizations. ...

Arts

  • Bingo (play), a play by Edward Bond about the last days of William Shakespeare
  • "Bingo (song)", a song about a dog
  • "Bingo", a song by British rapper M.I.A
  • Bingo (film), a 1991 film about a dog
  • Bingo, a 1998 CGI short film by Chris Landreth based on a one-act play by Greg Kotis, in which a young man is terrorized into believing that he is a circus clown
  • Bingo!, a 1985 non-fiction book by Roger Caron about the 1971 Kingston Penitentiary riot
  • Bingo, the Cracker Jack dog
  • Bingo, the gorilla character from the Banana Splits T.V. series
  • Bingo Baggins, a member of the Baggins family in the J. R. R. Tolkien books
  • Bingo Beats, a record label
  • Bingoboys, a dance music trio
  • Bingo Brown, the preteen protagonist of four novels by Betsy Byars, known as That Wilkin Boy
  • Bingo Little, a character in a number of books by comic author P. G. Wodehouse
  • Bingo Long, in the movie The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
  • Buck Bingo, the name used for Lucky Luke in the comic book Giggle
  • Bingo (album), a solo album by Bela B., a member of the German band Die Ärzte
  • Bingo (musical), a 2005 Off Broadway musical play with music by Michael Heitzman, David Holcenberg and Ilene Reid

Edward Bond (born July 18, 1934) is an English playwright, theatre director, theorist and screenwriter. ... Bingo is an English language childrens song of obscure origin. ... M.I.A., real name: Mathangi Maya Arulpragasam, (born 1978 in Hounslow, London) is a Sri Lanka-raised singer and artist. ... Bingo is a 1991 American family comedy film. ... Chris Landreth (born 1961) is an American animator working in Canada, best known for his work on the 2004 film, Ryan. ... Greg Kotis wrote the book and co-wrote the lyrics of Urinetown the Musical. ... Roger Mad Dog Caron is a Canadian bank robber and the author of the influential 1978 prison memoir Go-Boy: Memories of a Life Behind Bars. ... For other uses, see Crackerjack (disambiguation). ... For the dessert, see banana split. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens legendarium, Hobbits are a fictional race related to Men. ... Bingoboys are a dance music trio from Vienna Austria who had two chart entries on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart in 1991. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Richard Bingo Little appears in a number of books by the renowned comic author, P. G. Wodehouse. ... (1976) Filmed in Macon, Georgia, The Bingo Long Traveling Allstars & Motor Kings starred actors Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor and James Earl Jones. ... This article is about the comic book and TV series. ... Bingo is the first solo album of the German singer Bela B., released in 2006. ... Off-Broadway plays or musicals are performed in New York City in smaller theatres than Broadway, but larger than Off-Off-Broadway, productions. ...

People

Elwood Bingo DeMoss (1889-1965) was a baseball player and manager in the Negro Leagues from 1905 to 1943. ... Robert Bingo Smith (born February 26, 1946 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a former professional basketball player. ...

Other

This article is about the City of Binghamton, New York. ... This article is about all the media that use the name Battlestar Galactica. ...

See also

Bovine bingo is a traditional rural fundraising game that is often played at country fetes and summer fairs, usually for fundraising purposes. ... Buzzword bingo is a game sometimes played in relaxed team meetings. ...

References

  1. ^ http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Bingo_fuel
  2. ^ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Military_slang

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Bingo is a popular form of gambling that many feel is difficult to cheat at (unlike other gambling games) and is in some areas a high stakes serious game.
If a Bingo club can't afford an air-shuffling machine, then the balls are usually tossed in a wire cage and twirled with a handle (on the outside) by the caller as many revolutions as he chooses until he decides to pull a ball out.
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The bingo name comes from a corruption of the name Beano, the name of a form of bingo played in the United States in the 1920s.
Commercial bingo games in the US are primarily offered by casinos (and then only in the state of Nevada), and by Native American bingo halls.
There is a UK Caller of the Year Competition in which bingo callers compete for a cash prize and the chance to call the numbers in Las Vegas, as well as to become the bingo 'ambassador' for Britain.
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