Hi All!   I just thought it would be fun to share some facts about bingo that you might not know.   :)

1. Bingo was originally called Beano and was played at fairs in the country.  A dealer would have numbered discs in a cigar box, and when he pulled the disc out he called the number on it.  The person who won would yell “beano”, instead of “Bingo”.
2. Edwin S. Lowe, a toy salesman is credited with inventing the modern day game of bingo, as well as renaming it Bingo
3. After this Bingo was introduced again in 1930 and by 1934 there were 10,000 Bingo games being played each week.
4. Last year more people played Bingo than attended NFL games. WOW
5. There are more than 1,474,200 unique Bingo cards possible.
6. 96% of all Bingo players have won a game at least once.
7. The largest Bingo game ever played had 60,000 players, an additional 10,000 were turned away at the door.

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