subject: Do you know your facts? [print this page] There are many things that people do not know about bingo. For example, eight percent of the country plays online bingo, and on average a game of bingo takes approximately four and a half minutes. Have a look at the facts below about bingo.
It takes the average bingo called one minute to call out 23 numbers
The average amount of time taken to check a winning call is approximately 30 seconds
Bingo first became popular in the 20th century in Australia and was played in large marquees
It was the French who started to play bingo using tokens and playing cards
In Atlanta in 1929 the game bingo was first known as 'beano' and dried beans were used and a sheet of cardboard
In the 1800's a game that was similar to bingo was played in Germany, but was used as a tool to educate children in mathematics
In the 1800's the game bingo became more popular and spread to Europe and the bingo caller would take wooden chips that had been numbered and pick them out from a bag. The object of the game was exactly the same as it is today
A man from New York, known as Edwin Lowe, introduced the game to some of his friends. The game was known as beano at the time. However, one of the players called out bingo mistakenly
At the end of the 1940's bingo was extremely popular all over the country and hundreds and thousands of bingo games were being played every week
The most common reason for a person playing bingo is because it is fun and it is a great way to meet people and socialise
Bingo has become even more popular now that it available to play online
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