Bingo: The History of Britain’s Favourite Flutter
The roots of Bingo can be traced way back to the year 1530, when an Italian, state run lottery called “Lo Gioco del Lotto d’Italia” first began. Over a century later, the French adopted a similar game, one version of which used a playing-card grid of numbers. A caller would reach into a bag and draw out wooden tokens which were marked 1 – 90, and the first player to cover over all the numbers on their card would be marked the winner. This was the first lottery-style bingo game to be seen, the craze spread and soon was very popular all over Europe.


