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General Background of USA Bingo

 
Ask this question of a Canadian or USA bingo player and they will be all over you like a black bear on maple syrup. This game has rooted itself just as deeply in US culture as bingo in the UK has, some people actually even believe that the game was introduced to the UK by the Americans. But those of us who know our history well, know that bingo type games were being played underground in the UK, long before Eric Morley suggested it could become a commercial success. But let us leave that particular debate to the historians and look at bingo USA style. 

History of USA Bingo 

The common consensus is that the game of USA bingo has its historical roots in the lottery game designed to raise funds for the re-unification of Italy in the 1500’s. This game traveled across Europe, and into America. Bingo USA was found by Edwin Lowe and made a commercial success by him, but was called “Beano” at the time, he also could not patent the game as it was in the public domain already. Through some mishap, so legend has it, a player called “Bingo” instead of “Beano” upon winning and the rest as they say is history.  

Bingo Cards 

A Columbia University Math Professor, Carl Leffler was commissioned to come up with as many possible number permutations as possible for different bingo cards and as he was not a computer, another legend tells us this (6 000 of them) drove him quite batty. This in essence is a very brief history of the birth off the popularity of USA bingo. Strangely enough, it was not only Edwin Lowe who promoted the popularity of playing USA bingo, the Catholic Church is the chief culprit. My goodness, Catholics gambling; you ask?? Yes, it’s most popular use was for fundraising in church halls, to build more churches, feed widows and orphans and build schools as well as give children in the USA a good catholic education. As an additional note, there is a bingo hall in every town in Canada, and Canadian schoolchildren play it in their schools, still today!! 

Bingo USA Today 

The favorite form of USA bingo games is 75 ball bingo and in the UK this is 90 ball bingo. However we see, many UK online bingo sites offering 75 ball bingo games and in recent times more 90 ball bingo appearing on USA sites as well. Online bingo was first introduced to the USA market in the late 1990’s and quickly became one of the favorite forms of online entertainment among usa players..