History of Bingo
The oldest forms of drawings that have been reported are lotteries and bingo. Already in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries Italy was shaken with games and lotteries. At this time, the replacement of members of the House and Senate in Genoa, raises the appearance of a new game, the Bingo, that truth is the son of the lottery.
In Genoa, there was the habit of periodically replaced members of the House and Senate through the draw. The names of the members were placed in balloons, which were removed from a box.
It suddenly after a game led to France by the armies of Charles VIII (1495). The transition game with prizes to be given from 1539, with Francis I.
The income of the games was reverted to the Treasury. The example was followed by the German principalities, the Netherlands, Austria and even by the Popes states, while Clement XII.
Bingo, word, originated from the Italian Lotto or Lotto (lottery one that emerged in 1530 and known as the Lotto Gioco of Italy) as a joke as a child, in 1778 in England.
After this date, received many names such as Tombola (Tombola) name information for the sailors of the British Royal Navy at the end of the last century or House (House) English Army soldiers called him, in the beginning of the twentieth century.
Throughout 1800 this type of lottery is rapidly spreading throughout Europe and split many of the game were created.
There are several stories as the name would have emerged Bingo.
One realizes that the name bingo emerged in the late 19th century in Wales, where miners, who had practically no money and no food to eat, Rustic betting on cards, dialing the numbers drawn with beans (bean, in English, which gave is bin).
Who won, bore all the Jews from the cards of many miners. That is, the winner could carry a sack full of beans for home. Hence the expression bean go, to suggest that Jews were to the winner.
Another version for the emergence of the name is that when the game reached North America in 1929, became known as beano. Entry was played at a carnival near Atlanta, Georgia.
The tools of the game consisted of dried beans, a rubber ring tone with numbers and cards. A toy salesman named Edwin Lowe New York, I see the game where players exclaimed, beano if they complete a line of cards.
Lowe introduced the game to their friends in New York where one of them spontaneously cry deception bingo! In his exaltation. The bingo Lowes immediately became very popular. Edwin Lowe starter of the game Bingo Lowes seek the services of a professor of mathematics at Columbia University, Carl Leffler, to expand the number of combinations.
In 1930, Professor Leffler I 6.000 bingo cards with sets of numbers not repeated. It was said that complete the task successfully, and then became mad.
Whatever the true origin of the name, Bingo, since its appearance, has led to entire families throughout the halls of the world, including luxury casinos like Monte Carlos, and turned into a promising industry of entertainment and recreation for people in the whole world.
In 1966, created the first legislation relating to Bingo, in England. The initiative caught the attention of many employers across Europe, making it in the next decade, the70s, it was marked by fever Bingo Modern precursor of what we know, with high-tech machines and sophisticated lounges.
In Spain, in 1975, the game was so well received that the success was immediate and almost a new system emerged, the Spanish system. In the beginning, the equipment was handcrafted and nothing seemed to be modern and sophisticated equipment of today.
At present, they could very well be part of the museums collection of Bingo. With the introduction of specific legislation in 1978 the Spanish Bingo, the game industry began to change and entrepreneurs began to envision a promising future. At that time, as the regulations were stringent, the equipment had to be perfected.
The paths traced out by the entrepreneurs of Bingo were not easy. Many years of battles were for expenses that arise specific laws and to guarantee security, the legitimacy of the sector and good fun for its customers.
Perhaps there are those who have yearnings of the time in which to take a living room, needed only a carpenter, an electrician and some money.
But these people, when they come in a beautiful house, with modern machines, air conditioning, sellers and waiters ask, forget those romantic era which is now part of the history of bingo.