Bingo Statistics

Statistics of bingo
Here are some interesting facts about the most popular game in the world, BINGO.

A form of bingo game Screano was played in movie theatres during the Great Depression of America. The casino game Keno is based on bingo. Most of the online bingo players have a pet, the majority have a cat. Bingo reached North America in 1929 and was known as Beano. Bingo became very popular in Australia during the early 1900's and was known as Housie.
Bingo's origins can be traced back to 1530, it started out as a Italian lottery game named Lo Giuco del Lotto D'Italia, and is still being played every Saturday in Italy.

In the 1800s a type of bingo game was used as an educational tool to teach German kids multiplication tables. It is said that bingo enhances a players mental speed, observation skills and even memory. Research shows that bingo keeps a player in peak mental form, and provides a fun and enjoyable experience.

Research shows that no person could live long enough to print all possible bingo cards, the reasons are:

There are 552 million-billion-billion possible bingo cards available. There would be about 111,007,923,832,371,00 sets of game cars and about 55 billion bingo cards in each set. If we say there is 6 billion people in the world today there would be 92,072,412,343,521,400 game cards for each person. If one can print one million bingo game cards per second, it would take about 17, 000.000.000.000.0 years to print every game card. If one places all the possible bingo cards all over the surface of the world it would cover the world to a depth of 800 miles. Lets say there are one million game cards per inch of height, and all possible cards are stacked on each other it would extend for 8910 trillion miles. Alpha Centuri is our closest star after the sum and its 14 trillion miles away.

The majority of bingo players are female, 70 percent of bingo players are women. 80 percent of bingo players are between 25 and 54 years old. 46 percent of them has an average income of $40,000 and more and 51 percent are college educated.

84 percent play at lotteries, 50 percent play at online casinos and 10 percent play at sports books.

57 percent of these woman only play bingo online and 65 percent spend 4 hours or more online every day. 80 percent have new computers.

66 percent of them use 56k modems and 28 percent use high speed modems. 82 percent avoid downloading the games.

More Bingo Statistics.
- Surveys showed most people play bingo because they enjoy it and not for the money.
- Bingo started in the 1930's and by 1934 there was about 10000 bingo games played a week
- 30 percent of bingo players are under the age of 35.
- Research shows there is 2.5 million female players around the world.
- The largest game ever played was 60000 players in New York.
- 96 percent of players have won at least once while playing