Keno Lotto

Keno’s History

Keno is a lotto game and its name has been change quite a few times during the game’s 3k+ year history, and this has occurred to be able to thwart the law and taxes. It is a Chinese invented game and was used to have funds for their army and The Great Wall. Keno was using 120 Chinese characters when the game first started, but before the game was to abandon China, the numbers were reduced to just 90, and then the game was introduced in America around the 19th century because of the wave of Chinese immigrants. And then by that time, the game numbers were reduced to 80.

Even though Keno was illegal, the Chinese immigrants prospered the game, most especially those around the big cities like San Francisco. The American was suddenly interested with the game, but they had a hard time upon differentiating the Chinese characters that is being used to in the game. And then, in the 20th century, the keno operators decided to use Arabic numbers instead of the Chinese characters to inveigle more players.

In 1931, Nevada legalized almost all forms of gambling, but did not include lottery. So the operators plainly changed the name into Race Horse Keno to get around the nuisance. And even up to today, most Keno operators still address the games as “races”. And when the U.S. Government passed the law taxing off track betting, the operators once more changed it to merely Keno.

Rules :

To be able to play Keno, you have to select a bare minimum of 4, but it should not be more than 10 numbers that is in between 1 and 80. “Spot” is addressed to each selection, so, if you have selected 10 numbers, then you are playing a 10 Spot game.

You simply have to make a mark at a blank Keno ticket with those numbers that you have in your selection. After that, you can present the ticket to the Keno desk along with your wager, and then the clerk will provide you will the duplicate ticket. In a few minutes, the 20 numbered Keno balls will be pulled out randomly from a barrel that contains the 80 numbered balls. And if most of your selected numbers were pulled out, you are a winner. Throughout the Casino, there will be Keno boards and the results will be displayed there.

Strategies :

You can try and play those numbers that you have not seen being pulled out in the recent games. Or you can pick out those successive or you can choose the same set of numbers one after the other. You see, this game does not really need strategy because this game is based on luck. But there is no harm trying and having some fun at the same time. There are only split chances of winning those big prizes with this game, but then again, luck may fall on you and you will be without a doubt the lucky winner.