What is the home of bingo?

Answer 1

Bingo is played all over the world, but the game's history can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called "Lo Giuoco del Lotto D'Italia," which is still played every Saturday in Italy. From Italy the game was introduced to France in the late 1770s, where it was called "Le Lotto", a game played among wealthy Frenchmen. The Germans also played a version of the game in the 1800s, but they used it as a child's game to help students learn math, spelling and history.

Recently there has been an increase in the popularity of bingo, firstly due to large commercial bingo halls, and then more recently due to online bingo.

Answer 2

Burkina Faso, a landlocked nation in Western Africa, has a small town named Bingo, which is the capital of the Bingo Department with a population of over 15,000. There is another Bingo in Burkina Faso, in the Zoaga Department in the nation's south-west.

Outside of Burkina Faso, Japan was once home to Bingo Province, which is now part of Eastern Hiroshima. Also, Binghampton - the major city of Broome County, New York - is often nicknamed 'Bingo.'