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History Of Bingo


 Bingo is a timeless game enjoyed throughout the world where players try to match a set of randomly drawn numbers on a set of bingo cards.

Bingo - shouting it out loud and winning a prize. Who thought of that? What does that word even mean? Bingo history must be the craziest we've ever researched.

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 Many years ago when kings still ruled fiercely over the kingdom (Not exactly, it was a government). But it was certainly the olden days. It was (approximately) the year 1530. Lotteries were then used and organized collectively by the Italian government.

 However it was a French lotto lover (we hope he was young, handsome and with a good sense of humor) who developed an alternative version of the game existing at the time. It was a simple looking card (as we know, looks can deceive) with three horizontal rows and nine vertical, with numbered and blank squares in random arrangements. The columns were broken into sets of 10 numbers, 1-10, 11-20, all the way up to 90 in the last column. The numbers were written on chips, which were pulled randomly out of a sack, by the caller! The first player to cover a horizontal row was declared the winner.

 In the 1800'Th century a strange and dark phase came upon the game. Bingo variations began to be used as teaching devices! Germany used a version intended to teach its youth multiplication tables. Other educational lotto games existed for spelling, history, biology, you name it! This trend has never died, a quick walk through your local toy shop will most likely reveal a variation of the game with television characters, intended to teach numbers and counting!

 Up until this point though, bingo was not bingo, it was still known as a lotto game or variation, and was even pushed aside after the deadly take-over of the education system. However, an unexpected twist brought this game back to life (...back to reality) it happened by chance or more correctly by a man lurking for a chance to cross his path...

 While Edwin S. Lowe was searching for a game to rescue his struggling toy company venture, a carnival game called "Beano" was traveling around New York State. Lowe tells the story of going back to New York and gathering up beans, rubber stamps and cardboard cards to hold his own beano get-together with friends. As a sort of test Lowe acted as the caller, and it wasn't long before he realized the amazing thing happening right before his eyes. A friend of Lowe's was fast approaching a winning card as Lowe watched with fascination. As the woman came closer to win she became more and more excited, and finally when she won she jumped up and tried to splutter out 'beano!' but it came out jumbled as 'bingo!'

 Lowe describes the moment as historic, understanding the addictive qualities of the game and recalls knowing at that point in time he would be marketing the game as Bingo!

 Bingo slowly became a game that every one knows. But this is not the end of our tale. A parishioner, who had adopted bingo as a church fundraiser, approached Edwin S. Lowe a couple of years after the release of the game. He had come across the problem of cards with the same number combinations, in which there were multiple winners on the same game. To avoid this Lowe approached a preeminent mathematician of the time, Carl Leffler of Columbia University. Leffler took on the task of creating 6000 unique Bingo cards, slowly working them out one card at a time. Being paid on cards produced basis, Leffler found the more he made the harder his job was, and near the end was charging $100 for each unique card produced! As the story goes, soon after completing the task of creating all 6000 cards, the professor went insane, perhaps by direct result!

The rest, as we say, is bingo history.



 Bingo is one of the most popular forms of low priced gambling in the world. At the height of its popularity during the Great Depression of the 1930s, a bingo variation (often called screeno) was played in motion-picture theatres, with one night in the week chosen bank night, when patrons received free bingo cards with their admission tickets; prizes amounted to hundreds of dollars in cash or merchandise.

 Bingo has been played enthusiastically in Japan and has even been introduced at the casino in Monte-Carlo. In Great Britain the game received its greatest thrust when the Betting and Gaming Act of 1960 permitted the formation of a large number of commercial lotto clubs. Within a few years, the game achieved a popularity equaling or exceeding that which it had formerly enjoyed in the United States.