{"id":154867,"date":"2022-09-01T15:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/?p=154867"},"modified":"2022-09-01T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T21:23:39","slug":"was-the-farmer-or-dog-named-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/was-the-farmer-or-dog-named-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the Farmer or Dog Named Bingo?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Farmer or Dog Named Bingo?<\/p>\n

Is it the farmer or the dog who gets the credit for first naming bingo? The answer may surprise you.<\/p>\n

According to some sources, bingo was originally called \u201cbingo-bam\u201d by the British military in World War I. Soldiers would mark off numbers on their arms with a pencil to keep track of their losses.<\/p>\n

When they played bingo, they called out the numbers as they marked them off. The game got its current name from British soldiers who called it \u201cbingo-bam\u201d and the French soldiers who called it \u201cbongo-bongo.\u201d.<\/p>\n

Others say that the game of bingo was actually invented by an Irish monk named Charles Dolan in 1826. Dolan played the game with friends and decided to call it \u201cbingo\u201d because he liked the sound of it.<\/p>\n

Bingo became popular in Ireland and England and eventually spread to other parts of the world.
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The farmer\u2019s name was Bingo, but the dog\u2019s name was Rover. Bingo was very surprised when Rover came home from the vet with a brand new name \u2013 Lucky. Bingo and Lucky quickly became best friends and spent every day playing together.<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Farmer or Dog Named Bingo? Is it the farmer or the dog who gets the credit for…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154867"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163197,"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154867\/revisions\/163197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bingocardtemplate.org\/in-depth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}