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Originally called Beano, Bingo can be traced back to Italy in 1530. Edwin S. Lowe renamed Beano to Bingo after overhearing somebody mispronounce Beano. The first known game of Bingo in the United States was in the early 1900's. A Columbia University math professor, Carl Leffler, had created 6,000 different combinations of bingo cards by 1930. It is said that Professor Leffler later went insane. By 1934 Bingo was being played in several churches to help raise funds. Today over $90 million dollars are spent weekly in Bingo games all over North America.
Bingo is a very simple game. Constisting of cards with 5 collums and 5 rows, making up 25 squares. Each square on the card has a number on it. There are slight variations how the game is played, but the game pretty much stays the same. As the random numbers are picked out of the basket at the front of the room, it is then announced to the players. Players then mark the squares, which when rows, columns, or even diagional lines are filled in a player would yell "BINGO". Usually people can join the game for a few dollars, but some games can get so huge that the winner can end up with hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per game.
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Mainely Bingo Inc
37 Riverside Drive, Auburn, ME 04210 Map
207 782-2929
Elks Lodge Bingo
397 Civic Center Drive, Augusta, ME 04330 Map
207 623-9623
Gardiner Youth Hockey Bingo
Wednesday 6:30 p.m.
101 Spring St, Gardiner, ME 04345 Map
207 557-0399
Cavalier Club Bingo
855 Lisbon St, Lewiston, ME 04240 Map
207 784-0244
Elks Lodge
1675 N Lisbon Road, Lewiston, ME 04240 Map
207 784-4801
Pleasant Street Bingo
475 Pleasant St, Lewiston, ME 04240 Map
207 777-1394
Yankee Bingo
33 Allen Avenue, Portland, ME 04103 Map
207 878-3213
Eagles Bingo
13 Oxford Avenue, Rumford, ME 04276 Map
207 369-0519
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