Hi All! I just thought it would be fun to share some facts about bingo that you might not know. :)
- 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”.
- Edwin S. Lowe, a toy salesman is credited with inventing the modern day game of bingo, as well as renaming it Bingo
- After this Bingo was introduced again in 1930 and by 1934 there were 10,000 Bingo games being played each week.
- Last year more people played Bingo than attended NFL games. WOW
- There are more than 1,474,200 unique Bingo cards possible.
- 96% of all Bingo players have won a game at least once.
- The largest Bingo game ever played had 60,000 players, an additional 10,000 were turned away at the door.
Do you have any fun facts you’d like to share with us? Link us in the comment box below.
1riley624 on Feb 20, 2009 at 8:29 am:
This is some wonderful information… now..If I can only memorize it so that when one of you try and use it in trivia, I might know the answer…lmao I will just copy and past it somewhere for further reference..hee hee
riley624
2Marilyn on Feb 25, 2009 at 9:11 pm:
I was just curious why bingovega can't just issue checks for U.S. customers when they cash out? Poker sites do this, so not sure why bingovega doesn't or at least offer more than one way to cash out. Ewallet charges a pretty high fee to withdraw money to our bank accounts, or at least what I consider pretty high.
3Vegablogger on Feb 26, 2009 at 3:34 pm:
Hi Marilyn, Joel here. Thanks for your comment. Although this comment is not related to the post, I think it's an important one, so I'll do my best to help.
Issuing checks are very difficult for bingo operators, if you can send me an email to hallmanager@bingovega.com with the sites you've seen that offer checks, we'll look further into this. Regards more options, YES! Our accounting team is working super hard to bring you additional secure cash out options…at this time, I don't have an exact time, but I can assure you we're working on it and as soon we get close, we'll updatet the community.
4VegasHoCat on Mar 3, 2009 at 6:25 am:
Oh very cool! I love trivia and fun facts like this! LOL!
We had a land bingo caller here, that used to say little sayings after each # he called…such as…
N-34, dirty whore (wonder why I remember that one?? ha!)
G-47 , stairway to heaven
it was funny though, lots of the stuff that he said, lol.
5clumzyazz on Mar 9, 2009 at 2:30 pm:
omg lmao cat, now you know everytime shoupe calls out N34, I am gonna be thinking of a dirty whore hahahahaha. ( Nascar29 )
6rubywantawin on Aug 7, 2009 at 7:33 am:
wow good info and thanks always wondered where it originated from now i know..
7rubywantawin on Aug 7, 2009 at 8:33 am:
wow good info and thanks always wondered where it originated from now i know..
8rubywantawin on Aug 7, 2009 at 12:33 pm:
wow good info and thanks always wondered where it originated from now i know..