Bingo History

When Italy was unified in 1530, a lottery was launched. This weekly lottery has been held virtually every Saturday since its inception. By 1778 word of the game had spread to France and captured the fancy of the intelligentsia. It was during this period that the popular version of the lottery was born. Cards were divided into three horizontal rows and nine vertical columns. In the 1800s the popularity of lottery games spread throughout Europe. Education variations were created to aid children in learning their multiplication tables, spelling and even history.

What started as the Italian lottery made its way to America via a carnival pitchman touring Germany. There he came across the lottery game and recognized its appeal as a carnival tent game. He made a few changes to the game, including allowing players to complete a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally. And he changed the name to Beano. He was working at the carnival one night in 1929 near Atlanta when a traveling toy salesman, Edwin S. Lowe, came by. Early for a sales call, Lowe decided to stop at the carnival. The only tent open was the Beano tent, which was so crowded with people that Lowe wasn’t able to play the game for himself. Lowe watched how excited the crowd was.

Lowe immediately realized the money-making potential for Beano. Upon his return to his home in New York, he created his own Beano game by procuring some beans, cardboard and a rubber number stamp. He invited friends to his apartment to play the game. There he saw the same excitement that he saw at the carnival. During the game, one player had accidently yelled out “Bingo” and the name stuck.

It was a priest from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania who began to promote playing bingo in churches. One the parishiners in his financially ailing church came up with the idea of using Bingo as a way to raise money for the church. But with only 24 unique cards to play with, the priest was finding that there too many winners for each game. The priest contacted Lowe about producing a large number of unique number combinations for the cards. Lowe recognized the fund-raising potential of the game and enlisted the help of a professor of mathematics at Columbia University named Carl Leffler. But the increased number of bingo cards was exactly what was needed to make the game a staple at churches across the country and a sound source of fund-raising

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