Bingo Through the Years

Bingo is not a new game that just sprouted out a couple of years ago. Its rich history can be traced back to the early 16th century, originating from an Italian lottery game ans has spread through continents and exploded to the entire globe. Before bingo was known to be a game played by elderlies in a local bingo hall. Today, bingo is seen in various forms yet preserving the original concept of how the game is being played. Originally, the game played starting from a bingo card with a 5x5 line grid containing numbers from 1 to 75 or 1 to90. A bingo caller is designated to draw out random numbers from a case and calls it out loud. Once you see that the called out number matches one of the numbers on your card you have to mark it out. In playing bingo, you need to follow a certain pattern of which when you complete the pattern, you need to call out "Bingo!" for you to be declared as the winner of the round. Bingo games are famous on charity events and fund raising. In fact, a lot of churches conduct bingo game events in which the proceeds of the bingo cards will be intended for their choses charity. There are also some celebrities that hosts bingo charity events and fund raising events as their act of good deed for the less fortunates.

Today, bingo is played in a lot of forms in variations such as mathematics bingo where in the basic rules of the game has something to do with the subject such as multiplication, addition, subtraction and multiplication. Another variation is Phonics bingo where in the main subject is language and reading comprehension. There is also geography bingo, chemistry bingo, history bingo and among others. These kind of bingo variations are greatly utilized in school activities in which it help students learn more about the subject while having fun at the same time. In fact, a lot of schools in the US recommends these kinds of bingo games as a method of learning.

The latest innovation of bingo is the online bingo where in it utilizes the use of a computer having a high speed Internet connection. Online bingo is just the same as playing the game on land based bingo halls, the only difference is that it has some added features like the auto-pilot, where in the numbers being called out are automatically marked by the computer. The rules and the concept of playing the game online are practically the same with its land based counterpart.