BINGO TRIVIA

Did you know?

- Bingo is the most popular game of chance in the world.

- Some rural communities in America play Cow Patty Bingo - This started of as a friendly game where farm workers could bet, but spread into a popular fundraiser for small churches and clubs.
A field is divided up into squares, and a raffle is held with the winner buying the square where the cow does it's business first !!
Often a local high school football field is used, as it is already divided into areas.

- In North Carolina, it is illegal for a bingo game to last over 5 hours.

- Bingo the Movie starred a runaway circus dog with amazing abilities.

- The biggest bingo game ever held had over 60,000 players, at New York's Teaneck Armory in 1934.
A further 10000 players were turned away. Traffic jams blocked the roads for miles around.

- Irish bingo is a kids game where players must sit down when there number is called and the winner is the last one standing. There is a drinking game variation, where everyone must take a shot when their number comes up.

- Professor Carl Leffler, one of the early pioneers of US bingo, was reportedly driven insane, after making up 6000 unique number variations for early bingo cards. Nowadays computers do it instantly.

- Many bingo players have some kind of lucky charm, lucky clothing, or lucky numbers.

- Most bingo players say that winning money is not the most important reason why they play. Enjoyment and socialising comes first, and winnings are just a bonus.

- 'Bullsh*t Bingo' is an irrelevant game invented by office workers to spice up boring meetings.
Common management phrases are ticked off a card, each time a speaker says specific words or jargon eg 'thinking outside the box' , 'proactive' ,'team player' , 'synergy' , 'leverage'

- In Australia, bingo is known as 'Housie'

- In German, a version of bingo was once used to teach multiplication tables to kids.