Posted by admin in Bingo has become a fun game today, but it was made famous by a simple toy salesman. His name was Edwin S. Lowe. He was observing a game of dry beans while passing through a country carnival held in Atlanta in 1929. This game was known as Beano. The players were making use of parched beans for marking cards when the numbers popped up. The player could win a prize when he could complete an array of numbers.
Lowe was very smart and he carried this idea with himself to the state of New York. He made all his friends aware of this game who along with him became the earliest players of this game. But the game got its present name when one of his friends yelled Bingo rather than Beano. He was then still making use of the same Beano resources of dried beans, a card board and a rubber made stamp.
By the 1940’s, this game had become popular throughout the country. Lowe started selling the rights to use this game to his competitors in return for 1.00 dollar a year. The game of bingo was also played in Italy as early as the 16th century. It was also popular in France where all the present traditions of game were added to it in the 18th century. These traditions include simple things like playing cards, speaking numbers and using tokens. This game was also played in Germany to teach children spellings, multiplication tables and names of animals.