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BINGO  

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3/10/2016 7:14 am
BINGO

In the US, bingo was originally called "beano". It was a country fair game where a dealer would select numbered discs from a cigar box and players would mark their cards with dried beans. They yelled "beano" if they won. The game was popularized by Edwin Lowe, a New York toy salesman who witnessed a game of Beano at a crowded carnival booth and decided to test playing the game at home before making it his own. Lowe renamed it "bingo" after he overheard someone accidentally yell "bingo" instead of "beano". "I cannot describe the strange sense of elation which that girl's cry brought to me," Lowe said. "All I could think of was that I was going to come out with this game, and it was going to be called Bingo!" The game's history can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia."

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