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History of The Bingo
Bingo is a game whose origins can
track in the called game the Giuoco of the Lotto of Italy. When
the unification of Italy in 1530 took place, the National
Lottery of Italy organized lotto weekly to be played, and thus
it follows until today. In 1778 lotto captured the attention of
the French, It was denominated Lotto and was played by well-off
people.
In 1800 it is possible to be raked in Germany, being used
educative intentions to teach to the children, applying it to
the mathematics to learn the tables to multiply. In the decade
of 1920 the game arrives at the United States, and it is known
him like Beano. They tell that in 1929 Edwin S. Lowe, a salesman
of toys, when it finished working in the city of Atlanta, and
lead towards Jacksonville for its next day of work, paused to
see a fair, where a great amount of people was reunited.
When one approached to see the reason, it discovered that people
were reunited around a table, playing a game that he did not
know, denominated Beano. There were some men playing it, but the
majority was women. When he asked the announcing one on the
game, it explained to him that there was shortage in Europe
under the name of Lotto.
Excited, he was decided to create his own game and when he
returned to Brooklyn, in New York, he invited to friendly and
neighbors to play it in his house. During a game, a player who
had five numbers and needed one more, when pronouncing Lowe the
number, shouted moved something as BINGO and Lowe decided that
this one was a better name for until the then ones thus call
BEANO. It was a true success for Lowe and its company.
By all sides it began to arise the game from bingo and Lowe
protested like rights that paid only 1 dollar to him per year
like exemptions and that the games were denominated with that
name. As the game produced a great one I number of winners, it
thought that it would have to develop a greater number of
combinations for cardboards. Lowe perfected the system with the
aid of a professor of mathematics of the called University of
Columbia Carl Leffler.
Leffler created 6,000 cardboards of bingo with combinations that
were not repeated. With this new system, the game grew on a
large scale and the value by cardboard reached the $100. Lowe
became famous and solicited by people so that it helped to
create games of bingo, and among others so many things, a
Bulletin of the News was published and until a book on the game.
In 1934, a catholic priest of Pennsylvania, approached Lowe with
the intention to use the game in the churches, as a form to
obtain bottoms for charity.
From then, the game became popular in massive form, gambling in
churches, specialized games of casino, halls bingo and until
through Internet. Bingo is one of the popular casino games at
present and still number of bingo players is increasing at a
rapid pace. |
