There are several theories about the
origin of the game of bingo, some
details says that it were avaliable
even in Roman times. Although there
is a prevailing over all others.
This theory says that from a bingo
game that was played around the year
1530 in Italy. That game was called
"What's lotto Giocco d'Italia" (The
game of the lottery of Italy).
Time passed and the game was brought
to France where he began playing
with the rules that remain today. It
was played with numbered cards and
someone read the numbers that came
out loud. This game was very popular
among the noble class of that time,
and soon spread throughout Europe.
In some European countries was used
in an educational way, using as a
fun way to teach children.
The next stage in the game is that
it was brought to America. There
used to play the game at fairs and
festivals, and was known as Beano.
The numbers are removed from a box
of snuff, and the players were
putting beans in their cartons
numbers until someone covered all
the numbers in its carton and
screamed out loud! Beano!. It is
believed that the name comes from
the use of Beano beans (beans in
English) to cover the numbers that
had already left.
It was in 1929 when a toy
manufacturer in New York, Edwin S.
Lowe, at a trade show in Atlanta,
first saw people playing Beano.
Quite liked the game and started
playing with friends in New York on
his return. There, one of them, with
the nerves from being marked all of
your ticket numbers shout Bingo! in
place of Beano! Edwin A name that
you like most and thus the former
name of the Beano changed all know
today Bingo. Mr. Lowe was a
passionate game of bingo, and loved
him so much that he asked a
professor of mathematics at the
University of Columbia, to create a
large number of different bingo
cards to play.
The bingo was widespread throughout
the world. While the further
development of the game of bingo was
when he started playing in
solidarity in the churches to raise
money for various social works.
Today, bingo is played in most of
the world, there are a couple of
different versions.