Computers take on bingo

Great-grandpa would be amazed. One of his favorite games has moved into the 21st century. Earlier this year, The Oasis senior center embraced a computerized game system that allows players to track as many as 30 bingo cards, in addition to whatever number they can handle on paper with an ink dauber.

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Tue, June 12th, 2007

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Interesting gambling information:

  • Gambling became legalized in Vegas in 1931 by Mayme V. Stocker and J.H. Morgan who was issued Clark County Gaming License No. 1.
  • In 1978, New Jersey became the second state to legalize casino gambling in an attempt to revitalize the rundown resort area of Atlantic City. The legalization was restricted only to Atlantic City.
  • In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.