Calling online bingo one of the most popular online games of all times is just stating the obvious. It isn’t just one country that is besotted with the game; the whole world seems to have fallen hook, line and sinker for it. From the European nations that go ga-ga over it to far away Australia and the United States, online bingo has managed to make loyal fans of people across continents. Statistics reveal that 8% of the entire’s world’s population loves to play a mean game of bingo. Though it is established that people from all over the world love their bingo, it is the United Kingdom that heaps the game with adoration like no other country does. Though bingo started off as an Italian lottery game way back in the 16th century, it has come a long way and with the turn of the centuries, it has become an indispensable part of the online gaming world.
Though the huge jackpots and the opportunity to socialise with like-minded people is a big pull for players to indulge in online bingo, the game would not have been able to sustain its popularity had it not been as much fun as it is. At heart, online bingo is a simple yet extremely interesting game which is probably why it has been a huge crowd puller for so many years. Some of the facts that make this game exciting are:
- Bingo was named so when a female player accidently yelled 'bingo' instead of 'beano,' its name then.
- Columbia University professor Carl Leffler tried to come up with 6000 cards with non-repeating numbers and went insane in the process.
- In the 1800s, the Germans used a Lotto-like game to teach children multiplication tables.
- One calculation shows 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 possible number arrangements on the standard bingo card.
