Some historians mentioned that the old Romans used to play their own version that now we call Bingo; nevertheless, there isn’t alot information about it .This game began in Italy, 1530. It was a game that was accustomed in the fairs of the towns. It consist a group of cards with numbers. One person remove numbered discs from a box and aloud to say the digits that appears in his. The participants, dialed with kidney beans the numbers in their cards and that one filled that it shouted “ Beano! ”.

In Italy, the custom of “Beano" started to happen in France and those who played no longer were people of the town, but the powerful ones, the money people. Soon it arrived at Germany, where its sense of chance game changed to an educative sense, through the game, the children learned to spell, learned mathematics and the history of its country. Later it arrived to other countries like Spain and Mexico.

In North America 1929 It was played for the first time in a carnival near Atlanta Georgia, and began to have great popularity. Soon after it arrived to New York, where Edwin S. Lowe, a salesman of toys perfected it red-baptize and it with the name of “Bingo”.

Generally, the main assistant to the Bingo were men and women who arrived at “third age”. But this does not mean that they are the unique participants, since in all the tables we found adolescents accompanying to its parents or grandparents who learned and apprehend this tradition that is a part of the culture of the American generally.

In the traditional Bingos it is common to see that the ladies go in friendly groups not only to accompany themselves, but to meet new people, play with their family. The gentlemen's are more independent and many go single, but some take advantage of the interval between series and series to make friendly and why not, to find the woman of his life, as it happened in Border Bingo when a gentleman, somewhat playfully and the same in serious, proposed to one of the players who won, to have dinner, after which they established a loving relation and to the first bingo game they played together became a great marriage.

This article was written by YOUNG.
February 8, 2009