The body is thicker than a regular pen so it can hold plenty of ink, but the middle is also pinched so it is easy to hold and manoeuvre during games. It’s just like a felt tip but it has a slightly rounded end the same shape as a jelly tot, so it makes a circle shape when you touch it to paper. Since some readers might not even know what a dauber is, we had better quickly explain.Ī dauber is just a special sort of pen that was invented to mark numbers on paper bingo tickets. So this page is dedicated to the dauber the colourful keeper of numbers and the weapon of choice for many a bingo player past and present. They are very much still around though, as most clubs offer players the option of a device or old-fashioned paper tickets, and some clubs even give you a free dauber when you first become a member. Since technology took bingo from one era to another, there has been less and less need for daubers as paper tickets began to fade into oblivion and the electronic bingo devices (or bingo bees as they are also known) took their place.

How crazy is that – and how old does it make you feel? A lot of you more battle hardened bingo players out there might be surprised to know this, but there are a newer breed of bingo player – and when we say ‘new’ we actually mean people who have been playing for around a decade – who have never used a bingo dauber!

Person with a bingo dabber