Bald Knob bans cash bingo night

Folks can’t shout “Bingo!” much longer at the senior citizens center in this White County community — not if they’re winning cash prizes, that is.

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Sun, April 8th, 2012

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  • The current wave of legal lotteries started in New Hampshire, spread to other North-Eastern states, and then across the nation.
  • Bingo as we know it today is a form of lottery and is a direct descendant of Lo Giuoco del Lotto d'Italia - the Italian National Lottery organized in 1530.
  • The age of electronic games began in 1964 with the Nevada Electronic's solid state "21" machines. The most successful of these was the Dale Electronics' Poker-Matic, which could be found in most Nevada casinos.
  • Poker is derived from the Persian game of "as nar" and was probably based on the dice game "tali", which was played by the Romans.