Category: Bingo

In the United States, bingo originated as a simple game of luck where each participant would hand-select numbers on a card, mark them on the card with coins, and then call the number chosen by the player who had called. The concept was borrowed from the game of “Hangman”, which involved the same basic principles. […]

The first recorded game of bingo was in India, where it was called Charaka Samantra and it was a variation of a game called Vastu Vati, the oldest known game of magic in the world. The Vastu Vati involved a round robin of people who sat around a table and a cloth covered board. In […]