Keno was introduced in two hundred before Christ by the Chinese army commander, Cheung Leung who utilized keno as a financial resource for his failing forces. The city of Cheung was waging a war, and after some time seemed to be facing national shortage of food with the dramatic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to create a quick response for the economic calamity and to produce income for his army. He therefore invented the game we know today as keno and it was a great success.

Keno was known as the White Pigeon Game, seeing as the winning numbers were sent out by pigeons from larger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lottery ‘Keno’ was imported to America in the 19th century by Chinese expatriates who headed to the States to jobs. In those times, Keno used one hundred and twenty numbers.

Today, Keno is regularly gambled on with 80 numbers in just about all of the US land based casinos along with web casinos. Keno is largely enjoyed today as a result of the relaxed nature of betting the game and the simple reality that there are no skills required to play Keno. Regardless of the fact that the chances of coming away with a win are horrible, there is always the hope that you could hit quite large with very little gaming investment.

Keno is played with 80 numbers with twenty numbers picked each round. Players of Keno can select from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, whatever amount they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.

Keno has grown in universal appeal in the US since the close of the 19th century when the Chinese letters were replaced with , US numbers. Lottos weren’t covered under the laws of gambling in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos altered the name of the ‘Chinese lotto’ to ‘horse race keno’ employing the notion that the numbers are horses and you want your horses to place. When a law passed that levied a tax on off track gambling, Nevada casinos quickly changed the name to ‘Keno’.