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In the game of bingo how come number 1 is kellys eye?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.'Kelly's eye' first appeared in military slang and then moved into bingo - or, as it then was, 'Housey-Housey' - jargon for 'One' around the time of World War I. Presumably, it referred to some soldier called Kelly who had lost one of his eyes, perhaps during the war, with the result that 'one' was all he could claim in terms of eyes!