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Bingo
 Websites presented in alphabetical order How to Play Bingo 
 Background about bingo. Covers topics such as history, prizes, equipment, rules, playing tips, strategies, odds, superstitions, how to play online bingo, sampling of places to play bingo, electronic bingo, and bingo websites. From HowStuffWorks. http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/how-to-play-bingo.htm Topics: Games & Puzzles Last updated Apr 22, 2008 Not Just for Silver Foxes
This 2001 article describes bingo players and culture, specifically at "Mashantucket, Connecticut, home of the Foxwoods casino and America's largest bingo hall." Includes discussion by a bingo caller of the many types of bingo games, such as full card, double bingo, hard way, small picture frame, and letter patterns. From Cabinet, a quarterly magazine of art and culture. http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/1/silverfoxes.php Topics: Games & Puzzles Last updated Apr 22, 2008 Origins of Bingo
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. http://www.strangelife.com/bingodoc/bingohist.html Topics: Games & Puzzles Last updated Apr 24, 2008 |
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