Bingo is one of the oldest and the most commonly known games in the world. The game is also known as 'Housie' in major parts of Australia and New Zealand and dates back to as old as 16th century. However, the game ibs believed to have originated in Italy as a state run lottery game that funded the nation's coffers, thus making Italy the birth place of Bingo.
The popularity of the bingo game spread over to the other parts of Europe where it was known differently. In Germany interestingly was used as an educational tool to teach math and multiplications. This remains an important purpose of the game even today. It was only when the game hit the shores of US that it soared to the popularity that it enjoys today. The game of bingo was used in America to raise funds for charity and it was played using beans. This game was soon christened as 'Beano' which is a version of 'Bean-Go' that the Americans would call out.
The commercial success of the game was detected by a business man from New York, who assigned Carl Leffler, a popular mathematician to design the number combinations for the game. Leffler designed 6000 different cards that rumored to have made him quite insane. After traveling far and wide, it was in the 1960's that it finally arrived to Britain. Here it grew as a popular game to pass time and it was Eric Morley who realized that the game could be used to attract the public back to drama theatres and dance halls that had gone empty with the raise of television.
Morley took advantage of the relaxation of the laws in Britain to further popularize the game of Bingo. However, bingo never suffered the same outlook as the other gambling games; it was always viewed as sociable and enjoyable. The bingo craze was initiated by Marley's company Mecca and it has reached where it is today. The game of bingo was soon being played widely and its growing demands lead to the introduction of the bingo games online. This lead to the revolution of the bingo games as it could reach a vast number of players and was also convenient. Thus, the online bingo has arrived and it gained fame like no other game played today.