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Originally called Beano, Bingo can be traced back to Italy in 1530. Edwin S. Lowe renamed Beano to Bingo after overhearing somebody mispronounce Beano. The first known game of Bingo in the United States was in the early 1900's. A Columbia University math professor, Carl Leffler, had created 6,000 different combinations of bingo cards by 1930. It is said that Professor Leffler later went insane. By 1934 Bingo was being played in several churches to help raise funds. Today over $90 million dollars are spent weekly in Bingo games all over North America.
Bingo is a very simple game. Constisting of cards with 5 collums and 5 rows, making up 25 squares. Each square on the card has a number on it. There are slight variations how the game is played, but the game pretty much stays the same. As the random numbers are picked out of the basket at the front of the room, it is then announced to the players. Players then mark the squares, which when rows, columns, or even diagional lines are filled in a player would yell "BINGO". Usually people can join the game for a few dollars, but some games can get so huge that the winner can end up with hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per game.
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Church of Incarnation
Thursday 8:00p.m.
880 Eastern Ave NE, Washington, DC 20019 Map
202 396-0942
Holy Comforter Bingo
Tuesday 7:00p.m.
1503 E Capitol St SE, Washington, DC 20003 Map
202 546-1885
Nativity Church
Tuesday 8:00p.m.
6008 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20011 Map
202 726-6262
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Monday 8:00p.m.
1600 Morris Rd SE, Washington, DC 20020 Map
202 678-4999
St Gabriel's Holy Name
Thursday 7:30p.m.
510 Webster St NW, Washington, DC 20011 Map
202 726-9092
St Luke's Church
Saturday 8:00p.m.
4925 E Capitol St SE, Washington, DC 20019 Map
202 584-8322
St Martin's Church Bingo
Friday & Saturday 8:00p.m.
1908 N Capitol St NW, Washington, DC 20002 Map
202 232-1144
Ukranian Church
Wednesday 6:45p.m.
4250 Harewood Rd NE, Washington, DC 20017 Map
202 526-3737
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