Several months after Bingo hit the market, Lowe was approached by a priest from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Father had a problem in his parish. A fast thinking parishoner had come up with the idea of using Bingo as a way to get the church out of its financial troubles. The priest had put the scheme into operation after having bought several sets of Lowes $2.00 Bingo game. However, problems developed immediately when it was found that each game pr s request was the the professor devise 6,000 new Bingo cards with non repeating number groups. The professor agreed to a fee that remunerated him on a per card basis. As the professor worked on, each card became increasingly difficult. Lowe was impatient, and toward the end the price per card had risen to $100. Eventually, the task was completed. The E.S. Lowe Company had its 6,000 cards - at the expense of the professors sanity!

The church of Wilkes-Barre was saved and after it, a Knights of Columbus Hall in Utica, New York. Word spread fast - I used to get thousands of letters asking for help on setting up Bingo games, said Lowe - so many that he published Bingos first Instructional Manual. This effort was followed by a monthly news letter called The Blo s firm had a thousand employees frantically trying to keep up with demand - nune entire floors of the New York office spacargest Bingo game in history was played in New Yorks Teaneck Armory - 60,000 players, with another 10,000 being turned away at the door. Ten autom s sanity.