How to say "bingo" in Japanese

• ビンゴCommon
  nounThe common word for the game of bingo, in which players mark off numbers on cards; also what a player calls out on completing a line. Use it whenever 'bingo' means the game.
• 備後びんご
  nounA proper noun for a former province in the east of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture, a historical term. Despite the identical reading, it is not a word for the game at all.

Use 「ビンゴ」 for the game of bingo; 備後 is a proper noun naming a former province in the east of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture, so it belongs to historical discussion of the area, never to the game.

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• ビンゴbingo
• 備後びんごBingo (former province located in the east of present-day Hiroshima Prefecture)