Bingo is a very old game played since long time. In many countries like UK, the game was initially known as housie. Until this date, it is referred to as such in India. Bingo game was usually played in church for fund raising and in private party or some other public hall. Bingo is derived from the Italian Lottery, Lo Giucco del Lotto DItalia. It was the Italian National Lottery begun in year 1530. This very famous casino game spread across the continent and finally reached America.
The casino game developed in different ways in United Kingdom and United States. The bingo game is based on ninety numbers in United Kingdom. It is played on a rectangular matrices made of nine columns and three rows. Each vertical column has a range of ten numbers. The bingo tickets have five numbers on each row. The regular bingo games play for one line, two and three lines. The three lines are played as special bingo game with the three lines Cover All. It is also known as housie.
When the bingo came to America it was restructured by toy salesman Edwin Lowe into a seventy five number game. It is played on a five number by five number square matrices with the letters of the word...