Getting To Know More BINGO
During childhood, one could feel the excitement to be the one to shout "Bingo!" It is an old and still favorite game. Yes, it is old--- much older than your great grandfather. Its name rules and prices change overtime but it will never change the fact that Bingo is catered for everyone.
It was during 20th century when the game Bingo became very famous in the United States. Tracing its origin to year 1530 in Italy, a state-owned lottery known as "Lo Gioco del Lotto d'Italia" was a favorite pastime.
In the 1700's, French people adopted lotto. There was a playing card used with three rows and nine columns and, in four rows, there is a free space each. There are wooden chips indicating numbers 1 up to 90 where for the first column are numbers 1-10 , the second column are numbers 11-20 and so on. These kinds of lottery-type Bingo pastimes became a fad all over European countries.
Edwin Lowe popularized the Bingo we know at present. He was a struggling salesman of toys from the city of New York. Lowe watched and observed the game "Beano" at a carnival in Georgia. In Beano, players made use of dried beans in marking their cards as the numbers were called. Once a player completed a row or column of numbers, "Beano" would be shouted and the game would stop. The winner would get a small prize.
The players' fascination with the game was visible to the entrepreneurial brain of Lowe. He too was enthralled by Beano that, when he returned home, brought it with him and presented it to his colleagues.
So when did it became Bingo? A lady was so excited that she was winning so, when she shouted, she said "Bingo!" instead of the accepted term "Beano."
Since then the game was known as Bingo. "Lowe's Bingo" became a craze and, by 1930's, Bingo games were rapidly spreading all over United States. It was also used then in fund-raising events by social clubs and churches.
At present in United States, legal Bingo exists in 48 states. Sometimes, games are held in a church's basement or in a 2,000-seat hall for charity events or community fund-raising activity.
To be a Bingo player does not have any requirements. There is no stereotype for a Bingo player. Most of the time, people play bingo to socialize and not to win the prize. Young ones discover that the game is a new method in socializing. Both men and women can play and enjoys the game.