DID YOU KNOW? Fun Bingo Facts  

• The largest Bingo game ever played had 60,000 players. An additional 10,000 players were turned away at the door.
  
• There are 2 ½ million female bingo players who play regularly.
  
• 30% of all Bingo players are under the age of 35.
  
• Online Bingo participants are about 80% female and 20% male
  
• 96% of all Bingo players have won a game at least once.
  
• The average Bingo game lasts 3 to 6 minutes.
  
• Last year more people played Bingo than attended NFL games.
  
• One calculation shows 552,446,474,061,128,648,601,600,000 possible number arrangements on the standard Bingo card.
  
• Columbia University mathematics professor Carl Leffler is rumored to have gone insane while trying to come up with 6,000 Bingo cards with non repeating numbers.
  
• There are 1,474,200 unique Bingo cards.
  
• The first Bingo game to raise money for charity was played at a church in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
  
• According to one survey, the number one reason for playing Bingo is personal enjoyment. Winning money comes in fifth.
  
• Edwin S. Lowe, a toy salesman, is credited with inventing the modern day game of Bingo.
  
• Bingo was introduced in 1930 and by 1934 there were 10,000 Bingo games being played regularly.
  
• The modern day game of Bingo is believed to have originated in 1530 from an Italian lottery called, Lo Giuoco del Lotto d’Italia.