Green’s Dictionary of Slang

chopsticks n.

also chopping sticks
[rhy. sl.]

(bingo) the number six or 26.

[UK]M. Harrison Reported Safe Arrival 85: ‘Twenty-six’ is more often ‘Chopping Sticks’.
[UK]J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl. 50/2: Chop sticksSix.
[UK]‘Jack Jones’ Rhyming Cockney Sl.
[UK]P. Wright Cockney Dialect and Sl. 109: 6 = Tom Mix, (more modern) choppin’ sticks or chopstiks.
[UK]R. Puxley Cockney Rabbit.
[UK]B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. 20: chopping sticks six.