Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese army leader, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a monetary resource for his declining army. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the drastic decrease in supplies. Cheung Leung needed to come up with a rapid fix for the economic calamity and to create revenue for his forces. He therefore invented the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.

Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from bigger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was brought to America in the 1800s by Chinese immigrants who came to the US to work. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is most often enjoyed with eighty numbers in most of the US based casinos as well as online casinos. Keno is commonly loved today as a result of the relaxed nature of gambling the game and the simple fact that there are little skills required to enjoy Keno. Despite the fact that the odds of succeeding are horrible, there is constantly the hope that you might win quite large with a tiny gambling investment.

Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers drawn each game. Players of Keno can pick from 2 to ten numbers and bet on them, whatever amount they are able to. The pay out of Keno is dependent on the wagers made and the roll out of matching numbers.

Keno grew in universal appeal in the United States near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese letters were replaced with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gaming in the state of Nevada in 1931. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the idea that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track wagering, the casinos swiftly changed the name to ‘Keno’.