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Did You Know...

Bingo is the No.1 game across the globe used for reliable fundraising.

Bing Crosby's nickname as a child was "Bingo".

Screeno, a form of bingo, was played in movie theaters during the
depression.

The casino game, Keno , is based on the game of bingo.

Most bingo players also like to play slot machines.

A majority of bingo players have a pet.

Bingo reached North America in 1929 and became known as "Beano."

Bingo became popular in Australia in the early 20th century. It was known
as Housie.

Bingo's origin can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called "Lo
Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia" It is still played every Saturday in Italy.

In the 1800s a Lotto game similar to Bingo was used as an educational
tool to teach German children mulltiplication tables.

Physical exercise will tone up the body, but the game of bingo enhances
the player's mental speed, obserrvation skills and memory. Research
shows that bingo keeps you in peak mental form. It provides an
enjoyable social experience, too!

The number of possible bingo cards is 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000.
If you could print a million cards per second, it would take
17,505,972,382,599.7 years to print every possible bingo card. Only
4,976,640,000 cards would have the same twenty-four numbers, but in a
different arrangement.
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Most Bingo Players Have...

lucky bingo seats.

lucky bingo numbers.

a fetish about leaving money on the bingo table. It's bad luck!

lucky clothes they wear to bingo, such as shoes, shirts and ties.

lucky days and times that they like to play bingo. Lucky bingo halls, too.

bingo daubers in their lucky color and/or in the shape of their lucky charms.

a bingo ritual where they walk around a chair three times - for luck - before
a game!

photos of loved ones, particularly grandchildren, displayed on the bingo
table.

lucky charms, such as a rabbit's foot, elephant, teddy bear, frog, troll doll,
monkey and gemstone
                     BINGO HISTORY

Bingo's history stems from a French lotto lover who developed an
alternative version of the lotteries that existed at the time.  The initial
alteration had three horizontal rows and nine vertical rows with
numbered and blank squares in random arrangements. The columns
were broken into sets of 10 numbers, 1-10, 11-20, all the way up to 90
in the last column. Bingo balls were really chips, and pulled out of a sac
by the caller. The first player to cover a horizontal row was declared the
winner.
In the 1800's Bingo variations began to be used as teaching devices.
Germany used a version intended to teach its youth multiplication tables.
Beano was the name of a carnival game traveling around New York
state around the same time that Edwin S. Lowe was searching for a
game to rescue his struggling toy company. Lowe told the story of going
back to New York and gathering up beans, rubber stamps and cardboard
cards to hold his own beano get-together with friends. As a sort of test
Lowe acted as the caller, and it wasn't long before he realized the
addictive qualities of the game. In one of these initial games, a friend of
lowe's was fast approaching a winning card as Lowe watched with
facination. As the woman approached the win she became more and
more exciting, more tense, and finally when she won she jumped up and
tried to stammer out 'beano!' but it came out garbled as 'Bingo!'
Lowe described the moment as momentous, and recalls knowing at that
point in time he would be marketing the game as Bingo!