There have been many varieties of the game Nevada had its own version which saw each number accompanied by a racehorse, which gave it a new name: Racehorse Keno.īut, in the 1950s, the racehorses names were removed due to a telling off by governing (tax) bodies.įrom Atlantic City to Las Vegas, you will find keno lounges available (including live dealers), where numbered balls are produced by a machine – in a style very similar to the original bingo game. Keno would be played with 80 Chinese characters, but as the game became more and more established in the USA, those Chinese characters were replaced by 80 Arabic numerals.
The numbers game was then brought to America by Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s and has grown in popularity over the years. Gambling has been available for centuries - not decades and you may be surprised to learn that keno originated in China way back in the mid-1800s. Simply put, keno is a numbers-based game of luck and patience, which can deliver big winning results, so knowing how the game works, will maximise your chances of being successful.
