Who doesn’t love playing Bingo Games? It can be a 75-ball or a 90-ball Bingo game but the fun stays the same, the excitement, the thrill and the shivers you get when you read 1-to-go and you are about to call Full House, is priceless!
1. Bingo is Italian!
Bingo actually comes from Italy, going back to the 16th century, it’s still played each Saturday, and it’s the National Lottery. It was called “Lo Giuoco del Lotto”, it’s like the 90-ball Bingo Game where five numbers were drawn from a box of 90 numbers (1-90) and allocated to each of the ten draw "wheels", plus the “Ruota Nazionale”, the National "Wheel". Each draw corresponded and still corresponds to ten Italian cities. Italian online gambling operators offer the Lotteria Italiana, as well as Tombola, which is similar to the 90-ball Bingo Game but instead of having One-Line, Two-Lines and Bingo - that cover respectively all the numbers on any single row on any ticket, all the numbers on two of the three rows on any ticket and all the numbers on all three rows on any ticket – they have: “Ambo”, a set of two numbers in the same row, “Terno”, set of three numbers in the same row, “Quaterna”, a set of four numbers in the same row and “Cinquina”, One-Line and Lotto, all numbers from a same ticket.
2. Don't Call Bingo if you are not 100% Sure!
It won’t happen with online Bingo providers and completely automated, but this is more common with Bingo Halls, Bingo players tend to go nuts if someone calls a full house but it turns out they were wrong!
3. Beano? Really?
In North America, a Bingo game was historically called ‘Beano’, as players used beans to mark the number called. The name Bingo was a mere coincidence or accident, a bit like what happened with Coca-Cola, Guinness and the “famous” Blue Pill, during one Bingo Game, one winner shouted out Bingo instead of Beano when he was close to a winning.
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