The origins of Bingo can be traced back to the year 1530 in which a State run lottery game Lo Giuco de Lotto was originated. The game is still held every Saturday in Italy. "Le Lotto" migrated to France in the late 1700s in a form similar to the Bingo we know today, with a playing card, tokens and numbers read aloud. At first it was played in Italy in the form of lotto. This system which was developed bingo lotto is played today every week.

Bingo was first played in France, the noble class, and then appeared in Germany where it was used in more practical purposes - to teach arithmetic. The online game spread throughout Europe in the 1800s and arrived in the U.S. in 1900. Discover more about the game with our online bingo guide.

When the game reached North America in 1929, it became known as "beano". It was first played at a carnival near Atlanta, Georgia. New York toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe renamed it "bingo" after he overheard someone accidentally yell "bingo" instead of "beano". He hired a Columbia University math professor, Carl Leffler, to help him increase the number of combinations in bingo cards. By 1930, Leffler had invented 6,000 different bingo cards. (It is said that Leffler then went insane.)

From the beginning until today bingo, players have been captivated by the exciting nature of the casino game spread quickly, was played either for fun or for charity fundraising (schools, churches and hospitals). One of the advantages of the game is easy they can play. Bingo game can be learned in minutes, and unlike other casino games is easy to follow. Eventually to play bingo is pretty much just need tickets, pens and of course many of which are extracted numbers stack. If you search internet, you can find out a lot of best free bingo sites with best features.

Each of us knows the traditional bingo card with 24 spaces numbered 1 to 75 to a space but also large number variations of bingo market. And now some bingo cards are used for mathematics or other subjects. Some bingo cards, for small children, are alive and are used for language.

In 1929, a game called "Beano" was played at a carnival near Atlanta, Georgia. The bingo game's tools consisted of dried beans, a rubber number stamp and some cardboard. A New York toy salesman named Edwin Lowe, observed the game where players exclaimed "BEANO!" if they filled a line of numbers on their card. Lowe introduced the game to his friends in New York where one of them mistakenly yelled "BINGO!" in her excitement. "Lowe's Bingo" was soon very popular and Lowe asked competitors to pay him $1 per year to allow them to call their games Bingo as well.

By the 1940's Bingo games had sprung up all over the country with thousands of games being played every week. Today Bingo games can be found just about anywhere.