A brief history of Bingo.
Bingo the game as we know it today has its origins around the early 18th Century and is the evolution of the Italian national lottery. As the various lotteries around the world evolved an off-shoot game was developed and called bingo which we all know so well today. In the early 20th Century it was a much loved pass time of the masses when they flocked to the seaside for their once a year summer holiday. It used to be called Bingo Housey Housey then.
It was developed as Beano, like the much loved named comic in the Stated around the end of the depression. It created a craze in the USA when it first came out and thousands of people would show up for each sitting. While we were getting Tupperware they Americans were winning cars. The modern game of Bingo has seen a revival in recent years with the introduction of the internet as literally millions of people monthly play online bingo at home on their computers as a pass time and consider this good fun.