About bingo – history and bingo theory

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July 1, 2008

The bingo is a game of chance rather old. It consists of a drum with a certain number of balls numbered on the inside. They may be 75 or 90 balls. The players play with cartons with random numbers written on them, within the appropriate range, 1-75 or 1-90. An announcer or drawing will beads singer of hype, singing numbers aloud. If a player has that number on your checks off the board, and the game continues until someone gets to select the numbers of your ticket.

There are several theories about when they started playing bingo, but most of them dating back to the sixteenth century. This is a very popular game throughout the world from which there are two typical varieties, which are the 90-ball bingo and bingo from 75 balls.
Contents

* 1 History of bingo
* 2 Types of bingo

History of bingo

There are several theories about the origin of the game of bingo, some data even in Roman times. Although there is a prevailing over all others. This theory says that comes from a bingo game that was played by the year 1530 in Italy. That game was called “What’s lotto Giocco d’Italia” (The game of the lottery Italy).

I spend the time and the game was brought to France where he began to play with the rules that endures today. It is played with cards numbered and someone read the numbers that came out loud. This game was very successful among the noble class of that time, and soon spread throughout Europe. In some European countries was used in a didactic, used as a fun way to teach children.

The next stage in the development of the game is that it was carried americas. There used to play the game at fairs and festivals, and was known as the Bean. The numbers drew a box of snuff, and players with Jewish iban marking numbers on their cartons until someone covered all the numbers in their cardboard and shouted loudly Beano!. Se cree que Beano’s name comes from the use of beans (beans in English) to plug the numbers had already left.

It was in 1929 when a toy manufacturer in New York, Edwin S. Lowe, being in a showroom in Atlanta for the first time he saw people playing the bean. The game quite liked it and started playing with his friends in New York upon his return. There, one of them, with nerves from being marked all of your ticket numbers cry Bingo! Instead of Beano! In Edwin liked him more this name and so the old name of Beano changed by that we all know today Bingo. Mr. Lowe was a passionate game of bingo, and both liked, that he asked a professor of mathematics at Columbia University, who created a large number of different bingo cards to play. It is expected that the professor believe more than 6,000 different cards, and became mad after that.

The bingo was spread throughout the world. Although the further development of the game of bingo was when it started playing in solidarity, the churches raise money for various social works. Today, bingo is played almost everywhere in the world, there a couple of different versions.

There are two main types of bingo, bingo from 75 balls and bingo from 90 balls. The way of playing is the same in both types, but the number of balls in the drum and cartons varies from one to another.

As its name suggests, in the bingo balls there are 75 of 75 balls numbered 1 to 75 in the drum. This type of game is more common in North America. The cartons have a total of 25 numbers, divided into 5 columns. The columns are defined by each of the letters of bingo, B, I, N, G, O, and each of them are numbers within a specific range. In Column B are numbers ranging from 1 to 15, R ranging from 16 to 30 in 31 to No. 45 in G from 46 to 60 and finally in the OR ranging from 61 to 75. In this type of bingo can win a prize by completing all the numbers on our board. This is known as bingo or full house. Another way of winning a prize playing bingo from 75 balls, is getting our mark in a given cardboard figure pre before starting the game, as any letter or symbol, without having to dial all numbers of the board.

The 90-ball bingo is the one that is played in most parts of the world. In this release, the hype has 90 balls numbered 1 to 90. The cartons are 15 numbers that you dial. These numbers are distributed in different rows 3, with 9 columns each, having a total of 5 numbers per row. The numbers are mixed with blanks. Here you can win prizes in 3 different ways, the first one is when you get to select the numbers that exist in any of the 3 lines of a carton. This award is called “line”. Some sites are also rewards the player who achieves mark two lines of your ticket, but is not at all locations. Finally the most important prize is when sung bingo, which is to have crossed out all the numbers from a carton.

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