Is it possible he was just happy her Beano kicked in? Legend tells of a woman in New York who was so excited to achieve a win in Beano, that she accidentally exclaimed 'Bingo' upon telling of her victory. While that is a great way to slow down the gas in your body, it hardly sounds fun right? The game would find it's way across the Atlantic Ocean with the help of an enterprising man named Hugh J Ward who immediately decided to copyright the game rather than just letting the people play and enjoy it and even published a rulebook, because what is more fun than rules?Ī man named Edward Lowe would further popularize the game when he happened upon people in Atlanta playing a game by the same rules that monopolizer Ward had laid out. This version added some of the things we know today like tokens, cards and someone annoyingly yelling a letter and numbers at the players. I made that last sentence up, but I figure it had to be similar to getting the home version of Jeopardy for kids of a certain age. The people loved finally being able to play the game they had watched for so long on Tv in their homes with their families. Italians would gather and and gamble on this game of chance.Ī home version would become popular in Naples in the 18th Century.
The origins are not so shockingly rooted in a game called Lotto. The origins of the game we call Bingo go back to the Sixteenth Century.
