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A fun, informative article on Bingo
There are 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000,000 different possible bingo cards. Every 4,976,640,000 would have the same 24 numbers in different arrangements. With 6 billion people in the world today, that's 92,074,412,343,521,400 for everyone in the world - plenty for every one.
Bingo can be traced back to the year 1530 in which a State run lottery game Lo Giuco de Lotto was created.
In France, Le Lotto dates back to the late 1700s. This game is more similar to the Bingo we know today, with a playing card, tokens and numbers read aloud. Throughout the 1800's these lottery type of games spread quickly throughout Europe and many offshoots of the game were created.
In 1929, a New York salesman named Edwin Lowe observed the game where players exclaimed "BEANO!" if they filled a line of numbers on their card. Lowe introduced the game to his friends in New York where one of them mistakenly yelled "BINGO!" in her excitement . "Lowe's Bingo" was soon very popular throughout the United States.
Lo Giuco de Lotto is still held every Saturday in Italy. |
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