When Italy was unified in 1530, appeared an Italian lottery game known as the Lotto game. It was a weekly lottery which is played every Saturday without fail. Around 1778 the bingo game reached France and is rapidly adopted, taking great popularity. The cards are divided into three horizontal rows and nine vertical columns. Each horizontal row of a free bingo card contained a total of nine squares, five squares with numbers and four blank-randomly arranged in line. The vertical columns contained ten numbers each: column one contained the numbers 1 to 10, column two contained the 11 to 20, column three contained the numbers from 21 to 30 and so on until the ninth column, which contained numbers 81 to 90.

Were placed in a bag a small wooden tiles with numbers 1 to 90 and at a time were taken from the bag. Each player had a unique lotto card and if the number called was on the card, then that number is dialed. The first person to completely cover a horizontal row was the winner. In the 1800s the popularity of lottery games spread throughout Europe. Acquired educational changes, created to help children learn multiplication tables, spelling and history.

What began as the Italian lottery took shape in America with a tourist who arrived in Germany. There he met the lottery game in a carnival and fair after making some revisions to the game, including the option of allowing players to complete a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally to win, changed its name to Beano. He handled their business one afternoon in December 1929 at a fair near Atlanta, Georgia, when a toy salesman, Edwin S. Lowe appeared. As it was early to begin sales, Lowe decided to go through the fair. The only store open was the Beano tent, which was so full of customers that Lowe could not get to play.

Lowe watched as the players listened intently the called numbers and if there were numbers on their cards, were covered with a seed. The growing excitement and tension were palpable. When a player finally had its cover line, shouted "Beano!". Astonished, he saw the trader tried several times to close the shop, but insisted the players keep playing. It was already 3 am and only then could not finish the game, although he did throwing out the gamblers.
Lowe quickly realized the potential market for Beano. Upon his return to New York, he created his own Beano game by procuring seeds, cardboard and rubber stamps for numbers. He invited his friends to his apartment to play and found the same attention and excitement he had seen at the fair. One player in particular was increasingly excited about the scoring numbers on the ticket and when he finally completed the row became so nervous that instead of Beano cried Bb-bingo! And this mistake forever changed the phonetic name of the game, transforming the current bingo beano.