Bingo is the No.1 game across the globe used for reliable fundraising. Bing Crosbys nickname as a child was Bingo. Screeno, a form of bingo, was played in movie theaters during the depression. The casino game, Keno , is based on the game of bingo. Most bingo players also like to play slot machines. A majority of bingo players have a pet, most notably a cat. In 1929, bingo reached North America, and became known as Beano. Bingo became popular in Australia in the early 20th century. It was known as Housie. Bingos origin can be traced back to 1530, to an Italian lottery called Lo Giuoco del Lotto D Italia. It is still played every Saturday in Italy. In the 1800s a Lotto game similar to Bingo was used as an educational tool to teach German children multiplication tables. Physical exercise will tone up the body, but the game of bingo enhances the players mental speed, observation skills and memory. Research shows that bingo keeps you in peak mental form. It provides an enjoyable social experience, too! The number of possible bingo cards is 552,446,474,061,129,000,000,000. If you could print a million cards per second, it would take 17,505,972,382,599.7 years to print every possible bingo card. And only 4,976,640,000 cards would have the same twenty-four numbers, but in a different arrangement.