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Bingo Fast and Fun Facts!

Here are some fast facts about one favorite game, Bingo. Some of these figures and facts are essential while some are trivial. Nevertheless, knowledge of these fun facts may add to the excitement as you may tell them to your friends or neighbors while playing bingo.

Did you know that around the world, there are two and a half million avid female bingo players? Not only that, do you know that according to scientific surveys, women are more satisfied in playing bingo than other games, with 15 percent of them saying that they play bingo to socialize and to find companionship?

Bingo is played around the world by all ages. But do you know that 30 percent of all bingo players are below the age of thirty-five? Not only that - and here's one trivia to entice you more to play bingo - do you know that 96 percent of all players of bingo have won at some point in their bingo-playing "career"?

However, according to research, the top reason for people to play bingo is enjoyment. That is right - enjoyment. Money and the jackpot ranks fifth in the rankings among people's reasons why they play bingo. Looks like bingo players get more intrinsic rewards in playing bingo than the extrinsic benefits of winning.

Wondering how bingo originated? Historians believe that the modern day bingo came from Italy in 1530 in their lottery called, Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia. It was then transported to America, but it was primarily reserved to be played by the elite. This was the case in most card games, too. However Edwin Lowe, a toy salesman, brought the game to the general public as he introduced "Lowe's Bingo" to save his near-bankrupt, newly-created toy company. As such, bingo started to boom in the 1930s and in just five years, there were around 10,000 games played every week across the United States.

According to that toy salesman, the Teaneck Armory of New York hosted the largest and biggest bingo game in the history of the planet. Around 60,000 players came. Organizers had to turn away ten thousand more away from the venue. Also, do you know that a church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania played the first bingo game as a fund raiser?

Do you know that there are 1,474,200 possible bingo cards unique of each other? In the early days, Carl Leffler, a mathematics professor from the University of Columbia, went insane after he personally made 6,000 bingo cards that have no repeating numbers in them.