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One of the simplest of all card games, Bingo has evolved into a game with many different types of play. Bingo is played all over the world now in regions far and wide but Bingo history first originated in 16th century Italy as a form of a Lotto game. America got its first taste on Bingo in the early twentieth century.

• The first recorded game of Bingo history was in the year 1530 when the Azzuri made a nationwide lottery and this game is still played in Italy every Saturday. In the year 1778, the first Bingo history game in France was recorded; however with small changes to the game such as the division of the cards in 9 vertical rows and 3 horizontal rows. Each vertical row contained 10 numbers in the order in increasing order, from 1 to 90.
• Germans played Bingo history in the early 1800’s but was not used as a form of entertainment, but as a learning tool for children to learn math, history and spelling.
• The game became popular in the USA from the year 1929 onwards. Here a different version of bingo was played using a table shaped like a horseshoe using dried beans and numbered cards. The dried beans were used as type of marker. After a line was completed, a person had to call out Beano and this is the way the name Bingo history came about.
• Beano soon became Bingo after one very excited person called out Bingo instead of Beano. This name soon caught and is known as Bingo ever since.
• The early versions of Bingo history made 5 to 6 winners which turned out to be quite a problem especially while dividing the jackpot. This was rectified by using cards with non repeating groups of numbers.
• It took quite some time for the game to become popular in the United Kingdom and it became famous only in the 1960’s when the Parliament passed the Gaming Act.
• The next year a man famous for making the Miss World competition famous brought Bingo history to the UK. He converted all the large and rundown buildings into sprawling Bingo halls and most of them had cinema halls attached to them.
• These halls soon started filling up by the dozens thanks to the excitement of the game and the added benefits such as the cinema halls. There was more style attached to the British form of Bingo history.
• Unlike in America, where the Bingo clubs had to draw numbers from a bag, the numbers from British bingo history clubs were drawn from glass cabinets that had fans attached to them and where the numbers were written on ping pong balls.
• In 1968, the parliament passed another gaming act which gave Bingo history clubs authority to play prize and catch Bingo. It also established a separate Gaming Board to regulate and look after the various Bingo clubs in the UK.
• Nowadays, majority of the people are turning to online bingo websites that allow people to play for free with different people from different parts of the world.