Bingo History

Bingo originated in Italy around the 16th century. It came from the Italian lottery, 'Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia'. The Italian National Lottery was established in 1530 and still exists to this day. An estimated 75 million euros in the lottery takes a year and is one of the main income of the government. The Bingo game was very popular in French. In 1778 the French set up their own lottery, called Le Lotto which was the main bingo game.

Bingo was also much used as an educational goal late in the 17th century. In 1850, Germany created a bingo game that children learned to multiply. Other games were such animals lotto's, and spelling lotto lotto history.

The bingo name is a corruption of the word Beano. The name Beano comes again from the beans that were previously used to cover the tracks.

The rise of the bingo game was in 1929 in German. At this time I was called Beano game yet. The game was different than we know today. An announcer grabbed a box of wood chips with numbers inscribed therein. If people had the right number, she laid a bean (English bean, hence the name beano) on that spot. If a player has a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row was full, it said, "Beano" and could get his price.

Ed Lowe, a toy salesman from New York discovered the game at a fair in Germany. He bought the game and introduced it in America, but changed the game a bit. He invited some friends in his apartment, playing a game of beano as and when a woman accidentally called Bingo Beano instead of renaming it the game and this led to an immediate success

At one point there was a priest from Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania in financial trouble and decided to play bingo as a fund raising operation. He bought the game from Lowe, but found it very frustrating that there were often multiple winners at once. This problem could only be solved if bingo history and cards would come up with more combinations of numbers. Lowe took his problem to a mathematical scientist named Carl Leffler and asked him if he was more combinations on the bingo cards could make. This was successful because it was 6000 all new bingo cards were different.

The great success of the fund raising of the priest led to a "bingo instruction manual" and later even a monthly magazine about bingo called "blotter". At present bingo more popular than ever and is therefore played worldwide. The latest fad is online bingo games on the Internet. All this thanks Ed Lowe The bingo in America and then introduced to the wider world.