The History of Bingo
Bingo History
Bingo has always been quite a popular past time for many people, dare I say, especially for the … elderly.
Bingo is found to be relaxing but equally entertaining and quite social. To get the whole history of bingo you need to look back more than a century. Actually bingo was played for the first time in the beginning of the eighteen hundreds having its roots in Europe. Bingo is a direct descendent of various forms of lottery games from when the Italians played a game called LoGiuoco del Lotto in 1530, a form of lottery operated by the state.
The game then became divided into different directions, one of the off shoots which became quite popular in Europe was a card game which consisted of three horizontal rows and nine vertical columns which were numbered from one to ninety, unlike today where the numbers range from one to seventy-five.
One of the original ways to play bingo was to number five squares, leaving four blank squares and players needed to mark off vertical columns or horizontal rows. The black squares were referred to as being ‘free’ and the player had to successfully fill in the five numbered squares.
Bingo’s popularity in later years was said to be caused by the depression years. Americans who were hit by those hard economical times used Bingo as a form to distract them from their miserable and poor existence. Soon after the Churches and other groups utilized bingo as a way to raise funds and Bingo developed its renewed popularity spreading all through-out the US.
Back in 1930’s you would have found many thousands of weekly bingo games making it the populations most favoured pastime, at least for those who had known about the game! In the early 50’s New Jersey legalized Bingo after witnessing the games growing popularity and New York followed only a few years after. Once other states saw the enormous popularity of bingo it hit its peak with just about everyone having a go at the little game called ‘Bingo.
Naturally other countries noticed people’s reaction to the game of bingo and they too followed suit legalizing bingo. Countries realized how much revenue bingo could generate and no one was going to miss that opportunity.
To this present date the game of bingo has not lessened in popularity or demand. There are more than one hundred thousand bingo halls all over the world, and there are over two hundred online bingo halls available on the internet who like enjoy bingo in a different environment.
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