Bingo Quiz — the daily UK Eyes Down puzzle, today's call and 30 bingo quiz questions for a pub quiz round

How to play Eyes Down, the daily bingo quiz puzzle

Eyes Down shows sixteen bingo calls by name only, such as Heinz Varieties, Droopy Drawers or Stairway to Heaven. They make four groups of four. Tap four calls you think belong together and press Check. A right group moves to the top in its colour; a wrong one costs one of your four mistakes. If three of your four are right, the game says so. Find all four groups before the fourth mistake and the day is solved.

The trick is that you have to know, or work out, the number behind each call. Stairway to Heaven is 67, a rhyme on seven; Droopy Drawers is 44, drawn from the shape of the two fours. Once the numbers are in your head, the groups start to appear, and so do the calls that look as if they fit two groups at once. A guess you have already tried is refused, and never costs a mistake.

There is one puzzle a day, the same for everyone, and it changes at midnight UK time. Your result, your streak and your best streak are kept on your device only; nothing is sent to us. Press Share result to copy a grid of coloured squares that shows how you did without giving the answers away.

The group types in the UK puzzle

Every group is a rule a machine can check, so there is never an argument over the answer. Most days mix easy groups with hard ones:

• A range of numbers, the easiest kind: single figures, the teens, or any ten from the twenties to the eighties. The last range, the eighties and 90, has eleven numbers, the same as the last column of a UK ticket.
• Doubles, where both digits are the same, like Dirty Knee for 33 and Sunset Strip for 77.
• Ends in a nought, the round tens, from Theresa's Den for 10 to Gandhi's Breakfast for 80.
• Looks like its number, the hardest: calls where the figures draw the picture, like Two Little Ducks for 22 and Duck and a Crutch for 27.

Calls whose names give the number away, such as Legs Eleven, Two Dozen and Half a Century, are left out, and so are the two cheeky ones, which keeps this a bingo quiz the whole family can play.

One answer, every day: how the daily puzzle is built

A puzzle is only fair if it has one answer. Before a daily puzzle is shown, the page checks every possible way of splitting the sixteen calls into four groups of four using all twelve rules, not only the four in play. If a second answer exists, the calls are dealt again. That lets the puzzle hide a red herring, such as four doubles spread across different groups, without ever marking a right answer wrong.

Each day's calls come from the date alone, so everyone in the UK gets the same puzzle and it can be checked afterwards. We have built every puzzle for the next ten years this way, and every one has exactly one answer.

Today's call: the daily bingo quiz question

The card beside the puzzle asks one question a day: the nickname is shown, and you give the number. It changes at midnight UK time with the puzzle, and each of the 90 calls comes up about four times a year. It is the quickest way to learn them, one a day.

30 bingo quiz questions for a UK pub quiz

These bingo quiz questions are written for a quiz night, a club or a care home activity. There are three rounds: the calls, the rules and the history. Every answer is a number from 1 to 90, and no two answers are the same, so you can use them as a normal quiz round or as trivia bingo, below. Answers are under each round.

Round 1: the calls

Name the number from its call.

1. Two Fat Ladies
2. Dancing Queen
3. Heinz Varieties
4. Top of the Shop
5. Unlucky for Some
6. Between the Sticks
7. Clickety Click
8. Key of the Door
9. Doctor's Orders
10. Buckle My Shoe
11. Staying Alive
12. Torquay in Devon
13. Knock at the Door
14. Retirement Age
15. Life Begins
16. The call that names the Prime Minister's front door

Round 2: the rules

Every answer is a number from the UK game.

1. How many numbers are on one UK 90-ball ticket?
2. How many rows does the ticket have?
3. How many numbers sit in each row?
4. How many tickets make a strip that uses every number from 1 to 90 exactly once?
5. How many lines do you need for the middle prize, before the full house?
6. What is the lowest number that can appear in the last column?
7. How many balls does the American pattern game use?
8. How many squares are on a 75-ball card, counting the free one?
9. What is the minimum age to play in a UK bingo hall?

Round 3: the history

Give the last two digits of the year.

1. The Italian lottery that bingo descends from is usually dated to around 15__.
2. Edwin S. Lowe began selling the game as bingo around 19__.
3. The Betting and Gaming Act that opened commercial halls was passed in 19__.
4. It came into force on 1 January 19__.
5. The ABBA song behind the call for 17 came out in 19__.

The stories behind the calls in round one, from the Heinz slogan of 1896 to the goalkeeper between the sticks, are on our bingo calls page, and the dates in round three come from our history of bingo.

Trivia bingo: running quiz bingo on a quiz night

Trivia bingo, also called quiz bingo, puts the two games together. Deal every player a UK 90-ball ticket; our bingo tickets page prints a strip of six, which covers every number once. Then ask the questions above instead of drawing balls. After each question, give the room ten seconds, read the answer, and anyone with that number marks it.

1. Shuffle the order. Mix the three rounds, so the easy calls are spread through the game.
2. Always read the answer. Players mark the right number, not their guess, so the game stays fair for anyone who does not know.
3. Play the usual prizes. One line, two lines and a full house. Thirty questions rarely reach a full house, so add your own, or finish on the first full house after the thirtieth question with our bingo caller drawing the rest.
4. Check claims against the answers. Read the player's numbers back and tick each one off the answer list.

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For a quiz bingo round of your own, write questions whose answers are whole numbers from 1 to 90, with no two the same. Questions about ages, years, football shirts and famous numbers all work.