Bingo history

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You might be surprised, but bingo has a long history. The game can be traced back to 1530 to an Italian lottery called "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia", which is still played in Italy every Saturday night. Bingo's next stop was France in the late 1770s, where it was called "Le Lotto" and was played mainly by wealthy Frenchmen. The Germans also played bingo in the 1800s, but they used it as a child's game to help students learn math, spelling and history.

Bingo was the only form of gambling permitted in the British armed services, it was called in tombola (1880) in the Royal Navy and house (1900) in the Army, The game had reached America in 1929, the year of the Great Depression. The financial situation increased bingo popularity – more and more people wanted big money in a short amount of time.

When it was first played in a carnival near Atlanta, Georgia it was called "beano", the dealer selected numbered discs from a cigar box and the players marked their card with beans. New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe renamed it "bingo" after he overheard someone accidentally yell "bingo" instead of "beano". He hired a Columbia University math professor, Carl Leffler, to help him increase the number of combinations in bingo cards. By 1930, Leffler had invented 6,000 different bingo cards.

A Catholic priest from Pennsylvania approached Lowe about using bingo as a means of raising church funds; a few months later bingo became a popular game in churches. By 1934, an estimated 10,000 bingo games were played weekly, and today more than $90 million dollars are spent on bingo each week in North America alone.