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Bingo has an Italian origin. Or rather, in Italian politics. At the end of the Middle Ages, in the city of Genoa, in northwest Italy, there was the custom of periodically replacing members of local political councils through drawing lots. “The names were placed in balls, which were removed from an urn”, says business administrator Olavo Sales da Silveira, president of the Associação Brasileira dos Bingos (Abrabin). Inspired by this tradition, around 1530, a kind of lottery was born, held on Saturdays, called Lo Gioco Del Lotto. The bingo we know today is an evolution of this game that, over the centuries, spread to other countries in Europe and, later, to America. The professionalization of bingo as a lucrative business, however, is a thing of the 20th century. And the push for the thing to catch on came from the United States, where the craze of using bingo to raise funds, mainly for religious works, began.
This lucrative game was made in an amateur way until the mid-1960s. The first world legislation to regulate bingos appeared only in 1966, in England. The initiative aroused the interest of many European businessmen, who, looking for profits, began to set up sophisticated salons to attract fans of the game. One of the countries where bingo became a great success was Spain, which ended up creating a new numbering system, from 1 to 90, replacing the old one, with 75 numbers. The Spanish system ended up taking root and is now adopted in most countries, including Brazil.