Digital Bingo Retires the Bingo Dauber

Whether you are playing in a traditional bingo hall surrounded by your bingo friends or sitting in the comfort of your own home sharing the fun with an online community, a bingo dauber is an essential part of playing the game. This article will chart the ever-evolving world of bingo, and how the trusty dauber has changed over time.

What is a Bingo Dauber?

A bingo dauber (sometimes called a dabber or a dobber) is essentially the ink-based pen used by bingo players to mark down the numbers that have been called during the game. Instead of a felt tip style pen, a dauber most commonly has a round, sponge-like applicator that makes it easy to mark down your winning number. Over time, the daubers changed, and today there are as many different types of daubers out there as there are bingo players.

Daubers can help bingo players reflect their personalities, and can come in many different shapes, styles and colours. It’s a fun way to express yourself as you play and helps to differentiate your card from those around you in the bingo hall.

The Introduction of Technology in Bingo

As the years passed, playing bingo in traditional bingo halls began to change. Digital screens replaced paper cards in bingo halls, and so the dauber had to evolve. Now, players can simply tap the screen and use an automated dauber to mark down their winning numbers, which means the old physical daubers soon became obsolete. Some people still choose to use their trusty dauber and paper cards, the good old-fashioned way, but as time goes on the digital versions of playing bingo have increased in popularity, not just in bingo halls, but in the online world too.

The Rise of Online Bingo

As technology advanced, mobile gaming became increasingly popular as people could now have the freedom to play games such as online bingo whenever and wherever they wanted. Now all across the country, friends can come together as part of an online community and have fun playing bingo from the comfort of their own home.

The traditional daubers and paper cards have become a thing of the past, but online bingo sites do offer players the chance to use different types of online daubers, so they can still express their personalities as they play. You can choose colours, shapes, and sizes of the dauber you use, or you can opt for the online bingo site to automatically stamp your online bingo card for you.

The bingo dauber is now something of a novelty item, but many bingo players will cherish theirs as a token of the fun times they had spent playing bingo in bingo halls from years gone by.