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Bingo Culture : The History of the Entertainment

By: Milly Ovenheinz
Date Added : August 24, 2011 Views : 12
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The culture of bingo has been going on for a long time now, and this has led to real many changes of the game as it is evolving through the years. Nowadays, a single bingo game contains multiple bingo games. For example, in a casino, the players initially play for a single number line, and this goes on until calling of a full card. After the calling of the full card, the play then continues.

The contestants playing the game play multiple cards for a single game. Thirty is not an unusual number in this case. Because of the involvement of many cards played by each player, most of the casino\'s halls ensure players sit on tables fastening their cards with adhesive tapes and daubers to specific mark their cards. In the big casinos after the calling of the number, the caller has to display the next number on the provided monitor.

Bingo is an interesting game. It is surprising that the game is an instructional tool in some American schools. In addition, the game application is in the teaching of English in countries, where English is not the first language. For the game usage of the game in teaching, the teachers replace the numbers typically with beginning reader pictures, words and unsolved math problems. In America, the primary bingo players are the women.

The history of bingo is wide if traced back. Initially, if the history traces back, one will realize a connection of bingo to the Il Giuoco Del Lotto d’Italia, played in Italy sometime in the 1530’s. With time the game matured and by the 18th century, bingo playing started in France using cards, tokens, reading of numbers and other additions to the game. During the 19th century, bingo had widely developed in Germany and even used by teachers for educational purposes including teaching pupils animal names, spellings and multiplication tables.

A person by the name Hugh J. ward is a person who is common in the bingo industry. He was able to standardize the modern bingo in and around the states of Western Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh sometime in the early 1920’s. The man went ahead and copyrighted Bingo and authored the bingo rule book in 1933.

Bingo further gained popularity when in a traveling carnival in Atlanta in 1929. A toy merchandiser by the name Edwin Lowe noted the engagement of players to the beano game, which used ward’s rules and dried beans, cardboard sheets and a rubber band. Lowe took this idea to New York, showed it to his friends conducting bingo games similar to the one he witnessed.

One theory for the origin of the term bingo is that, one day a beano player won the game, was so excited and instead of shouting beano, the player ended up shouting bingo. However, the name bingo usage started back in 1770’s in Great Britain, and migrated to Pittsburgh region a generation before Lowe introduced the game.

Lowe introduced two versions of the bingo games that are up to this day played in entertainment joints and casinos. The first version had 12 cards while the other version had 24 cards.


Milly Ovenheinz is a big fan of online bingo and casino games.

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