Bingo - what is it? This is a popular gambling game in which the result depends solely on probability and luck. To participate in it you need to purchase special cards, and to win you need to have a little luck. This kind of lottery has been enjoyed by millions of lotto fans around the world.
As in any other game, there are different versions and different ways and options for winning. For example, in the UK they play a version called "90-Ball Bingo." This view is slightly different from the American version, which is called "Bingo for 75 balls."
The story of Bingo: how it all began
The question of “Bingo” - what is it and when it appeared, cannot be answered unequivocally. Gambling spans more than one thousand years, over time, many of them mutated, disappeared, new ones appeared. The Bingo game is one of the lottery games that spread throughout Europe in the 16th century. The gain depended on the coincidence of random numbers. The gradual process of transforming the game into its modern form took place over several centuries.
English archaeologist John Stevens traveled to Mexico in 1838, he described in detail the ancient game of "La Lottery". The presenter took the numbered balls from the bag in turn and called the number. The players carried sheets of paper with them, arranged in rows of five digits in each digits from 1 to 90. When naming the numbers, they placed the grain on the corresponding cell. The one who first covered the entire line won.
Why is the game so called?
It is generally accepted that the name of the game was invented by an American toy seller named Edwin Lowe. He used this term during the implementation of mass-produced tickets. But why did he use that particular word? Once an enterprising Low watched the game during a fair in Georgia in 1929. A noteworthy point was that beans were used to close the numbers on paper. Because of the excitement, one playing lady accidentally cried out: "Bingo!" (translation of "bino" - beans). Low liked the word so much that he used it for his product. There are other assumptions regarding the emergence of this concept, but the bean story remains by far the most plausible.
Gambling for everyone
The game "Bingo" is a type of gambling entertainment, the main goals of which are fun pastime, checking intuition, testing luck and, of course, the probability of winning. It is fair to say that this game took the world by storm and is incredibly popular in recent years. Gone are the days when this entertainment was considered the inheritance of grandmothers and housewives. Currently, especially in Western countries, there are a considerable number of special institutions for playing "Bingo", thousands of kinds of various lotteries exist all over the world, including online. Men and women, young and old, all walks of life now know how to play Bingo, and do it regularly.
Electronic version of the game
The electronic version of Bingo is the same traditional, but without the usual paper tickets. Instead of sheets of paper, a special electronic device is used to record numbers by the player, these are the so-called bingo cards for semi-automated games. Fully in automatic mode, you can play on slot machines, where the machine itself selects the numbers and calculates the winnings.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of electronic bingo? Firstly, electronic games provide an opportunity for people who may have previously not been able to do (for example, people with disabilities and various forms of disabilities) to participate. Secondly, this option is intended for the prospective expansion of the audience.
Over the past decade, the number of people with their own electronic gadgets has increased significantly. With the advent of the online version of Bingo, the game has now become socially acceptable for absolutely everyone. As for the shortcomings, there are not so many to talk about them.
Can the human factor be considered a minus? For some, the choice of numbers by a person remains preferable, for others, by a computer, in any case, there is still a choice, but how long it will last, only time will tell.
Bingo Games for Kids
Bingo - what is it? Traditionally, this game is considered gambling entertainment. However, there are many varieties of this fascinating activity for both children and adults. It can be a big board game for the whole family or a card for the game "Bingo", which can also serve as a developmental and educational exercise for kids.
These cards are larger and square. They can be depicted large numbers, colors, geometric shapes, animals and much more. This makes the game interesting and entertaining for children. Both ordinary rules (cover the entire map, one line or a column), and specially invented ones can be used. When playing the game in this form, you can learn to recognize certain objects, learn colors and shapes, and so on.
Bingo for older children can be adapted for learning foreign languages, increasing vocabulary and broadening the general horizons. Modern children cannot live without tablets and phones, so you can combine business with pleasure, as there is the possibility of downloading one of the many applications for free developing mobile games "Bingo".
Why shout "Bingo!"
Bingo - what is it? In the traditional sense, this is a game of chance, which uses pre-printed cards with the numbers 5 to 5 rows. When calling the next number, the number on the card is crossed out, the game is completed by the person who gets the given pattern on the card. The winner in this case pronounces the word “Bingo!”, Thereby notifying all players present in their winnings. After that, all tickets are checked to make sure that the person was not mistaken, then an official confirmation of victory is announced, the prize amount is announced and a new game begins.
Bingo is a game of luck, it lacks the difficulty to qualify as an intellectual event. Most experts in the field of gambling see it as a lottery and believe that there are no secret techniques or strategies that would guarantee victory.