Here is the history of bingo in a nutshell:
- 1500s ‘Lo Guioco del Lotto D’Italia’ was invented by the Italians.
- 1600s This lottery type game then evolved in France.
- 1800s Germany adapted the game for educational purposes.
- 1929 ‘Beano’ was discovered at fairs and carnivals in America.
- 1930s Edwin Lowe took ‘Beano’ to New York where a player yelled ‘Bingo’ by mistake, and thus the game we know today was officially born
- 1960s Bingo arrived in the UK and clubs popped up throughout the country.
- 1996 The first ever online Bingo sites were born – ‘Bingo Zone’ and ‘Bingo Blitz’
- 2004 Around 20 online Bingo sites were up and running, Bingo halls slowly began to close
- Present Day There are around 200 online Bingo sites in the UK alone, and the game is now more popular than ever