Bingo History - The Origins Of Bingo Games :
Mark Falco, Sat Dec 10th
The origins of bingo, as with most games, is shrouded in themists of history. However, we can trace the idea back to the1500's where the Italians invented a lottery game to be played'en masse' rather like Bingo is today. "Lo Giuoco del Lottod'Italia" was the very first state run lottery which proved tobe so popular it is still played today.
Perhaps closer to the game we know today however is the Frenchgame of "Le Lotto" which was derived from the Italiancounterpart. This game was very popular with French noblemenduring the 18th century. This game involved a caller drawing outwooden discs number from one to ninety from a bag and callingthem out the the players. Each player had a game board dividedinto nine rows and three columns of numbers and the winner wouldbe the person to mark off all the numbers in one row.
Later cersions of the Le Lotto appeared in Germany but thistime, it was used not for gambling purposes but rather to teachchildren their times tables. Today, more of the same can befound on the children's games market including such things asspelling bingo with, of course, all of the gambling elementsremoved.
However, the first example of bingo in its modern form appearedduring the late 1920's when a New York toy salesman stumbledupon an addictive fairground game and had a brainwave. Edwin S.Lowe came across the game of "Beano" at a carnival in Georgia.The players at this game had wooden cards full of numbers and aset of dried beans. Every time the caller drew out a number theywould cover it up with a bean, the winner being the one to markoff all the numbers in a straight line either diagonally,horizontally or vertically. So popular was this game than Lowenever actually got a chance to play but the idea of marketingthis to the mass market was formed right there and then.
Hurrying back to New York he quickly made his own replica of thecarnival game and invited friends over to play at a speciallyorganised party. It was just a popular there in his appartmentto the point where one member got so excited that she stumbledover the call of "Beano!" to signify she had won and shouted out"BINGO!" instead. The name stuck and when Lowe produced thefirst commercial version of the game retailing for just $1that's the name it was marketed with.
Bingo of course never stayed as a parlour game but soon madeit's way into being a large multiplayer social gambling event wesee today. How it got that way is, unlikely as it sounds, due inlarge part to the efforts of a Pensylvanian priest! The priestneeded to find a fundraising event for his church and saw thegame of bingo as being the ideal way to do it. He set uplarge-scale bingo game events with hundreds of players insteadof the handful the original game had been designed for and theidea really took off.
Unfortunately, each game now had tens of winners instead of afew so he commissioned a mathematician to create cards with 6000unique number combinations, a task which took several months byhand as there were no computers to help back then. Once finishedhowever the game of bingo really took off in it's modern form tothe point where in 1934, just a few years after bingo first hitthe mass market, there was over 10,000 games being played perweek across America. Now of course, bingo is a multi-milliondollar industry across the world and can be played online 24hours a day if it takes your fancy.
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