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Bingo, the famous raise-money-for-the-church-social game, began in 1530. A toy salesman from New York called Edwin S. Lowe re-invented the game and was the first person to call it Bingo and he first made it for kids then made it for adults later on. Lowe published the game commercially. Later other people made it so they could get money from people when they buy into a game, which was not nice it was suppose to be fun!
Bingo is a game of chance in which each player has one or more cards printed with differently numbered squares and they have markers and they mark each square when the person that calls the numbers calls the number they have. Once they get 4 in a row they call bingo.
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