{"id":33990,"date":"2014-12-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=33990"},"modified":"2014-11-26T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:16:06","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-called-bingo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-called-bingo\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why is it called BINGO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/arcade-spinner-lazy-susan?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-33991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_22326-548x548.jpg\" alt=\"Arcade Spinner Lazy Susan | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_22326-548x548.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_22326-125x125.jpg 125w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_22326-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/uk_22326.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The numbered game of chance we know and love has been around in some form since the early 1500s in Italy. It was known as a \u201clotto\u201d game and took on many forms, including educational variations that taught children to recognize numbers. Around the early 1900s, a form of the game called \u201cBeano\u201d became very popular. Players would mark their cards with beans, and once a row was completed, they\u2019d yell \u201cBEANO!\u201d In 1929, toy salesman Edwin Lowe stopped in on a Beano game in Georgia. After seeing people get so competitive over the fate of a few beans, he was eager to play the game back at home with his friends. He made some cards and let the games begin. Needless to say the game got spirited, as anyone who has waited six turns for a darn N22 would understand. When one of Lowe\u2019s friends finally hit Beano, she leapt to her feet, tongue-tied with excitement. She stammered \u201cB-B-B-Biiingo?!\u201d Clearly a more snappy exclamation than \u201cbeano,\u201d BINGO stuck, and Lowe made the first official BINGO game shortly after.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Arcade Spinner Lazy Susan \" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/arcade-spinner-lazy-susan?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Arcade Spinner Lazy Susan, $98<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hint: It&#8217;s pretty cool beans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":33992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}