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Yahoo Bingo

Don't you feel just like that when you get a Bingo?

Yahoo.com has lots of games, including Bingo. They also have tournament games by WorldWinner where you can win cash.

About Bingo: did you know...

Roger Snowden’s great book “Gambling Times Guide to Bingo” traces Bingo back to the unification of Italy in 1530 and the organization of the Italian National Lottery, Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia, still held weekly today. By the late 1700s the French had caught on and were playing like mad, with some modifications. This classic version of Lotto had three horizontal and nine vertical rows and was played with 90 chips (balls). The 90 ball version is still popular in many parts of the world.


From Beano to Bingo
Edwin Lowe, owner of a struggling toy-company takes us through the next chapter of Bingo. While on the road he stopped one night at a roadside carnival and followed the noise and lights to one crowded tent. Inside, a variation of Lotto called Beano was being played. When players filled a line of numbers on their card they shouted “Beano.” The winner received a small Kewpie doll. (Beanie Babies, anyone?). He couldn’t fail to notice the near addiction to the game. Upon introducing the game at home to friends a stuttering winner called out “Bingo” instead of Beano and the game as we know it was born.
 

A church in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania immediately grasped the fundraising potential of the game. However, they had to get past the problem that in a large scale setting each game was producing a half-dozen or more winners. They needed more unique cards. Carl Leffler, a professor of mathematics at Columbia University eventually generated 6000 non-repeating number groups, legend has it, at the expense of his sanity. Remember, this was before computers and the number generation had to be done with painstaking, manual care. By 1934 there were an estimated 10,000 games a week in the United States alone.

And here we are!
 

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