Roman Bingo

If the Romans played bingo, do you think the callers would have used ‘bingo lingo’?

  • Legs two
  • Growing up the wall, four
  • Seagull in flight, five
  • Long-nosed dead man, nineteen
  • Pornography, thirty
  • Use your tongue, fifty-nine
  • Smiling in a blindfold, a hundred and one

An American-style bingo card with Roman numerals in place of the numbers and 'quadrum gratuitum' in place of the free space. Based on an original photo by Oeil De Vautour / Edwin Torres, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

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