Bingo Daubers are the plastic squeeze bottles with the sponge tops that bingo players use to mark the numbers on bingo cards for the last game of the evening coverall or for cards that could only be used once for special bingo balls games. They used to come in four colors: green, red, blue and violet that the player used to buy in the church basement. The only choice the player had was in the color. Now they are a novelty item.
The Bingo palace and Shops has a variety of different daubers. You can purchase holiday daubers. There are daubers for Christmas that have bottles in the shape of Santa’s helpers. There are daubers for the Fourth of July, Halloween and New Year’s. For those who like cutesy novelty daubers You can buy Desperate Mousewives or Betty Boop daubers.
There are also character daubers like Elvis, Lucy, the Three Stooges, Popeye, Ziggy, Romeo and Juliet and more. At the King of Bingo players can buy daubers by the dozen or more in up to fourteen different colors, some of them being fluorescent. Allied Bingo has a plastic candy cane full of bingo daubers, not to mention patriotic daubers.
There are even bingo dauber gift packs that follow a theme. Bingo Zone sells Uncle Sam daubers and Romeo daubers and snowmen daubers. Bingo is big business and bingo players are the reason for that big business. The players now have to be chic and have the latest daubers that are in style.