From then on, the name Bingo got stuck, so that is how the game is called until today. Lowe was inspired to create his own version, and it is in one of the games he hosted that a man screamed “Bingo!” when he completed a winning pattern. It was during this period that a man named Edwin S.
The game methodology adopted the French style, and they had to mark their cards with beans. By the 1900s, the game beano was already brought to America and became one of the favorite games in local carnivals.
In this version, the winner is the first person who crosses out the numbers in one horizontal row. These arrangements were random, but the way the numbers were drawn remain the same. In this new version, the cards had three rows and nine columns. The game eventually made its way to France, and it was in France that a new version was created. The winning numbers were drawn out of a sack.
The players printed cards with numbers inside squares. The version that was played back then was very similar to what we are playing now. We can trace its history to the mid-1500s, and it was called Lo Giuoco del Lotto D’Italia or the Italian Lottery. The bingo game we play today originally started as “beano”.
