Lowe began mass-producing bingo cards and selling them to churches and charities, who would use them as fundraisers. Lowe renamed the game “bingo” after hearing someone accidentally shout out the word “bingo” instead of “beano,” which is what the game was called at the time. Lowe was introduced to it at a carnival in Atlanta. The game made its way to the United States in 1929, when a New York man named Edwin S. The first recorded mention of Le Lotto in France comes from a 1778 novel by Voltaire called “Candide.” In the book, one of the characters is described as playing “a very serious game of lotto.” The French version of the game was known as “Le Lotto” and was played by aristocrats who would mark numbers on cards as they were drawn from a barrel.
