Something About The Origin Of Bingo
Bingo was originally called “Beano” and was first played in Italy, mainly at country fairs. A caller was responsible for drawing discs from a cigar box with players using beans to mark their cards as the numbers were called out. If they succeeded in marking all the numbers when they were called out to make the row or column given, they were made to shout out the word “Beano”, and the first person to shout was considered the winner.