The birth and evolution of bingo with Slingo

More than twenty years after its launch, Slingo continues to be a hit with its exciting combination of bingo and slot machines.

Today they have their own online casino and millions of players around the world enjoying several successful titles, both the Slingo Originals and the fruits of successful partnerships with other developers.

To understand this success, it's good to understand a little more about the origins of bingo, how it became popular and evolved until it reached the screen of your computer or smartphone.

A game with a lot of history
Everyone already knows the basic rules of bingo: the balls are drawn and the winner is whoever can fill a column, a row or a cross line on cards with random numbers. The first one who gets it yells BINGO!

While still extremely popular these days, bingo has an old history and many historians agree that it originated around 1530 in Italy with a game called "lotto".

Over the centuries the game was adapted and reformulated. The first version more similar to the one we know today appeared in France in the 18th century.

The credit for bringing the game to the United States belongs to Hugh J. Ward who began popularizing the game at carnivals in and around Pittsburgh in the 1920s.

Initially the game also became very popular in churches and congregations, but it was really in casinos that the game found its place and began to shine among players looking for profits.

Another thing that helped make bingo popular was its format and rules that ended up being adapted for various types of lotteries around the world.

The evolution of bingo on the internet
When the first online casinos started to emerge in the late 90's, players were surprised to be able to play their favorite games on their computer screen.

In these early years many games also began to be adapted for the online version, such as poker, blackjack, roulette and our main character, bingo!

Instead of the balls being drawn, the RNG (Random Number Generator) entered the scene with the algorithms randomly dictating the luck of the players.

With the advancement of technology and the internet reaching people's daily lives through the screen of mobile devices such as tablets and cell phones, bingo has become even more popular.

Today it is possible to find several bingo variants in online casinos and it is precisely one of them that we are going to talk about now.

A welcome addition to the passionate bingo community
Taking advantage of the rise of online casinos, Slingo was born in 1994 through the inventiveness of Sal Falciglia, an American from New Jersey.

The main difference of Slingo is the combination of elements of bingo and slot, another extremely popular game.

In most Slingo Original games you find just one reel, a bingo card with random numbers and a pay ladder that you can climb winning combinations to reach the highest payouts.

Curious about this gameplay? Today you can enjoy a wide variety of titles on Slingo's own website and at the world's top online casinos!

Hello Beka Prime Gaming, 

Thanks for this informative read. I surely learned a thing or two reading your piece here about the history and evolution of Bingo. I guess we all gotta hop on the Slingo train now!

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