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Bingo facts for fanatics

Are you a Bingo fanatic? Do you feel like you know much about your favorite Bingo game? Are you ready to even test your knowledge of Bingo facts and history? If yes, then it wouldn't take much of your time to have a warm-up exercise and maybe you can learn new information as well from reading this list of Bingo facts. These are the Bingo facts that you should know as a Bingo fanatic.

1. Do you know that millions of Bingo players have been addicted to the game? Although Bingo experts have not yet came up with a specific number of Bingo players in the world, they estimate that in the United Kingdom, eight percent of UK's population is addicted to the game. Ten percent of this figure is women while five percent consist of men.

2. An average Bingo game in UK usually lasts four or four and a half minutes. The British Bingo caller, meanwhile, can announce a total of 23 winning numbers on average. In turn, a Bingo player can easily check out a winning number in just 30 seconds on their game card!

3. Bingo associations acknowledge the most outstanding of all Bingo callers. They annually hold a "Bingo caller of the year" competition where Bingo callers compete against one another in two weeks.

4. The first people who used playing cards in their Bingo game were the French. They were also the first ones to use Bingo tokens and announced the winning numbers out loud.

5. Bingo knows no social status. Even, celebrities adore this game. Among them are Catherine Zeta Jones, Robbie Williams and Denise Van Outen.

6. Australians caught up with the ever-growing Bingo craze in the early 20th century. They even called Bingo as "Housie."

7. Germans had a lotto game which was similar to a Bingo game in the 18th century. The game was designed to educate young kids.

8. The Bingo game became popular in Europe during the 18th century.

9. In 1929, the first Bingo game was played in Atlanta, Georgia. It was known before as "Beano."

10. A New York salesman named Edwin Lowe became interested in Beano game when he it had caught his attention while the game was being played in a festival. He happened to hear the winning player shout "Bingo" when in fact the player shouted "Beano!". That was how the name "Bingo" came about as Lowe introduced the game as "Bingo" in the market.