print email comment close Origins of Bingo URL: http://www.strangelife.com/bingodoc/bingohist.html Description: Overview of the history of bingo. Describes how bingo "is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of 'Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia' [from the 1500s]," how toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe discovered the "Beano" game in 1929, and how a woman called out "bingo" instead of "beano" when she won and that the name of the game was then changed. From the website for a 2000 documentary about bingo. Publisher: Jeffcoat Films Extra Keywords Gambling Times Guide to Bingo Roger Snowden LII Database Information: Record 25958 created by Maria Brandt on 04/21/2008 Last modification on 04/24/2008 Published: 05/08/2008   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25958