Blast from Bingo’s Past
Posted on January 15, 2008
Filed Under Internet Bingo
Bingo is one of the most popular games ever existed. Did you ever imagined where Bingo originated from?
The history of Bingo in the United States can be summarized into three words: Lottery, Lowe and Beano. In 1530, an Italian Lottery called “Lo Giuoco del Lotto D’Italia” or the Italian National Lottery which brought about Bingo later on.
Then in 1920, Edwin Lowe came into the picture when he discovered a group of men playing a variation of a lotto game that involved cards placed on a horseshoe table with beans used to mark the drawn numbers. When all the numbers on the card were covered, the man who owns the card shouted Beano! The pitchman of the game explained to him how he encountered a German Lotto version of the game. That man brought the game to the United States and called it Beano.
After understanding the game, he went back to New York and tried the game to his friends using cardboards and used rubber stamps to mark the numbers on the board. On one of their games, one of his friends shouted “Bingo” rather than Beano upon her excitement. Lowe then decided to rename the game to Bingo. He asked for the help of Carl Leffler to formulate and create 6,000 Bingo cards with no two cards having the same set of numbers.
The market accepted the game in its new name care of Lowe and now has gained its popularity all over the world.
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