Bingo Terms to Live By

Are you familiar with Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia? Have you heard about the Italian State Lottery? How about the spelling lotto, animal lotto, multiplication lotto and history lotto? Do you know beano?

You may have heard some of these terms or not at all. But, as a Bingo player, you should somehow be familiar with such terms as these terms had been part of your favorite game.

The following are some of the Bingo terms and names that have played a role in the evolution and development of the game.

Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - This game is known to be the descendant of Bingo. Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia was very popular in Italy in the 16th century.

Spelling, animal, multiplication and history lotto - These games were devised by the Germans after the popularity of the Italian Lotto game. The German versions of Lotto were used to help German kids become more skilled in the fields of spelling, multiplication, animals and history.

Le Lotto - Le Lotto was the French's version of the original lotto game in Italy. In the late 1700s, the popularity of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia reached France and the game captured the interest of noble French men.

Beano - Beano was the name of the Lotto game in the United States when it was still being introduced in the early 1900s. The Beano caller in Atlanta Georgia was the one who transported the game during from overseas to the US. The caller was traveling in Germany when he encountered a lotto game in a carnival. He, then, changed some mechanics of the game and introduced to the people in Georgia.

Edwin S. Lowe - Lowe was a New York salesman, who just had established a toy company, traveling to Georgia. Lowe noticed that there was a huge crowd at the carnival where he was passing by. So, he decided to drop by and he learned that it was because of the new game called Beano. So, Lowe played Beano along with the seemingly addicted players who were willing to stay up to 3 am just to play the game. Lowe's fascination with the newly-discovered game made him decide to sell it to the American crowd.

Bingo - You maybe wondering how the game was known now as Bingo when in fact it was named by the caller as Beano. It was all because of Edwin Lowe's failure to hear the correct term. When Lowe was playing the game, a woman won the prize and she cried out, "Beano!" Lowe thought that the woman shouted "Bingo!" He liked the term so he used it as the official name of the game that he introduced to American consumers.