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SNIPPETZ YELLS BINGO! by Deborah Stumpf
ISSUE 424 • DECEMBER 14, 2009
How do you get three little old ladies to say “damn?”
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AN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
The game of Bingo goes back to 1530 to an Italian lottery called “Lo Giuoco del Lotto D’Italia.” Italians still play the game every Sunday. France took up the game in the late 1770s. Called “Le Lotto,” it was a game for wealthy Frenchmen. In the 1800s, Germany caught on to bingo and used urprisingly, thirty percent of bingo it to teach children how to spell and learn math players are under age 35; and, with and history. the onset of online bingo, the game In 1929, bingo was introduced in North America is no longer associated with little old la- – only it was originally called “beano.” The origdies. The average age of online players is inal version had a dealer who would select num41. However, more than 1 billion people bered discs from a cigar box; players would then still play bingo in bingo halls across the mark their cards with beans and yell “beano” if nation. It’s been a favorite pastime world- they won. The first game was played at a traveling carnival near Atlanta, Ga. wide for centuries. Get a fourth one to say “Bingo.”
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