Bingo (UK)

Lotto is also the name of a previously popular parlor game that has been preserved in the form of images Lotto as breeze, popular in the UK and the USA Bingo is a descendant of this game.

The following description is based on Meyer's encyclopedia of 1908:

Each participant will receive one to three number cards, which usually have three rows in height and nine in breadth. On each width row contains five numbers from the sequence 1-90, four fields remain empty. One ( 1 - 10 ) are in the first ten ( 11 - 20 ) in the second, Twenty ( 21 - 30 ) in the third vertical row, etc.

The number of game players is unlimited, since it is the combinations of five numbers from 1-90 a very large amount and are therefore extraordinary amount of tickets can be issued. Does everyone get his cards and made ​​its use so attracts a crier tablet from a pouch, which is also the numbers from 1 - 90 carry, and says to her. Anyone who has a hip number on his card, covered this number and who first occupied a Quinterne ( width row ) wins.

• Historical game
• Gambling