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A new game for Casinos online is the Keno
Keno is a popular
gambling
game in the
United States. Its history can be traced to a Chinese game called
"The Game of the White Dove (白鴿票)" invented during the
Han Dynasty (187 BC). The name "keno" descends from a form of Bingo
or Lotto popular in the USA in the 19th century. There are many
references to "Keno" played in a bingo like format in the eastern states
prior to the influx of Chinese during the gold rush. The name appears to
have been transferred to the similiar format Chinese lottery in the late
1800s.
History
The following account of the history of the game is an excerpt from
Stewart Culin's paper published in 1891.
[1] (http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/Archive/Culin/Gambling1891/index.html)
This game is an old establishment, and was first introduced by Chéung
léung of the great Han Dynasty. When the city was hard pressed, and
provisions were beginning to fail, they (the besieged) were anxious to
increase the contributions, and to exhort the people to subscribe more
for the army, but were unable to do so. Hence they established a game of
chance (to guess characters), by which they hoped to tempt the people to
hazard their property. In order to fix a method of losing or gaining at
hazard, they chose 120 characters for the whole game and eight
characters for one subdivision. If the people lost one (whole)
subdivision they lost three lí of property; if they gained one division
they were rewarded with ten taels. These regulations being once
established, who would not sacrifice a little in order to gain much? The
two games in the morning and evening were attended by men and women who
tried their luck by guessing. They had only opened the game for about
ten days, when they had accumulated more than 1000 pieces of silver; and
after a few more decades their wealth was boundless. The money thus
gained was considered a contribution to the army for the reduction of
the empire
At present the people practice the game as a profession. They borrow
the characters from the Thousand Character Classic, of which eighty are
chosen and arranged after a new plan, ten characters forming one
division, which the people are permitted to purchase for more or less
(for whatever they please.)
Three cash gaining ten taels makes the people covet the game without
loathing. When they guess five characters they gain five lí; when six
characters they gain five candareens; when seven characters they gain
five mace; when eight characters they gain two taels and five mace; when
nine characters they gain five taels; when ten characters they gain ten
taels.
When this game was first established, the houses were often at a
great distance, and communication being difficult and the people anxious
soon to know the result respecting their gaining or losing, they
employed letter doves to carry the news to the parties, whence the
present designation: 'The Game of the White Dove.'
Modern keno
Keno, in its modern form, is like a
lottery
or bingo
in that it is a numbers game. Unlike bingo, the keno player picks the
numbers for his or her ticket(s). Keno cards have 80 numbers; the keno
player can pick as many (or as few) numbers as desired. This is done by
circling or otherwise marking them with a pencil. Once the player has
picked their numbers, they must bring their card back to the clerk at
the keno booth. The clerk will then issue a receipt after recording the
player's numbers.
After picking numbers and recording them at the keno booth, the
player will then watch either a "big board" in which winning keno
numbers will light up or on a video
monitor showing the selected numbers. As the winning numbers light
up, the player usually marks them on his or her card with a
bright-colored marker. The amount of numbers the player originally
picked that match winning numbers of a particular drawing will determine
if any money is won and, if so, how much. The winning ticket needs to be
taken to the keno booth immediately if it is an individual game ticket,
as drawings usually take place every five minutes. If the player tries
to redeem a winning ticket when the next drawing starts, it is void and
no money is paid out.
To avoid having a void ticket, a keno player can purchase a
"multi-race" ticket with the same picked numbers on anywhere from 2 to
20 tickets. When the maximum number of games (matching the number of
tickets) is finished, the player can then redeem any winnings and avoid
the peril of a void ticket. Another option is the "stray and play"
ticket, which is usually a number of games greater than 30. Unlike
standard keno tickets, the "stray and play" doesn't have to be redeemed
immediately and is often good for up to a year after purchase.
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