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BINGO FACTS
HOW BINGO WAS BORN
Most Bingo players don't realize that the first bingo games can be traced back to 1530 in Italy. It originated as a "lottery" game called, "Lo Giuco de Lotto". Interesting, huh? A couple of hundred years later, this type of lottery migrated over to France in the 1700s, it took the form of the Bingo we all know and love today.
THE FRENCH LOVE BINGO Actually, the French were the first to play with Bingo playing cards, tokens … and what we all love most -- reading those numbers out loud! Throughout the 1800s Bingo spread quickly in Europe. Typically, the "Caller" would draw from a bag full of wooden chips numbered from 1-90. Like today, the object of the game was to be the first to cover a vertical, horizontal or vertical row.
BINGO COMES TO AMERICA In 1929, a game called "Beano" was played in a carnival near Atlanta, Georgia. Dried beans, a rubber stamp and a cardboard sheet were all that these Americans need to get their minds off the sting of the Depression. It wasn't until a New York toy salesman named Edwin Lowe, observed how players shouted the word, "BEANO!!" after winner was the modern game of Bingo born.
LET'S SHOUT "BINGO!" OUT LOUD Mr. Lowe introduced the game to his friends in New York where one of them mistakenly yelled "BINGO!!" for the first time in her excitement, and "Lowe's Bingo" was soon the talk of NYC. Lowe asked players to pay him $1 per year to allow them to call their games Bingo as well … By the late 1940s, Bingo games sprung up all over the country with thousands of games being play every week. Today, Bingo games are found everywhere … even on the Net ;-) I hope you liked this tidbit of trivia. So what are you waiting for? You are just one click away from meeting me in the FunTimeBingo Halls.
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