Keno was first played in two hundred BC by the Chinese military commander, Cheung Leung who utilized this game as a finance resource for his declining army. The city of Cheung was at war, and after awhile of war time appeared to be facing country wide shortage of food with the drastic drop in supplies. Cheung Leung had to develop a quick response for the financial disaster and to produce revenue for his military. He therefore invented the game we now know as keno and it was a great success.

Keno used to be known as the White Pigeon Game, due to the fact that the winning numbers were broadcast by pigeons from larger municipalities to the tinier villages. The lotto ‘Keno’ was imported to the USA in the 1800s by Chinese migrants who came to the US for jobs. In those times, Keno used 120 numbers.

Today, Keno is normally enjoyed with just 80 numbers in almost all of American brick and mortar casinos as well as net casinos. Keno is largely liked today as a consequence of the relaxed nature of playing the game and the simple reality that there are no skills needed to play Keno. Regardless of the reality that the odds of coming away with a win are horrible, there is always the hope that you could win quite large with very little gambling investment.

Keno is enjoyed with eighty numbers with twenty numbers drawn each round. Players of Keno can choose from 2 to 10 numbers and wager on them, as much or as little as they want to. The pay out of Keno is according to the wagers made and the matching of numbers.

Keno grew in universal appeal in the United States near the close of the 1800’s when the Chinese characters were changed with , American numbers. Lotteries weren’t covered under the legalization of gaming in the state of Nevada in Nineteen Thirty One. The casinos renamed the ‘Chinese lottery’ to ‘horse race keno’ utilizing the concept that the numbers are horses and you are wanting your horses to place. When the Nevada government passed a law that taxed off track gambling, Nevada casinos swiftly altered the name to ‘Keno’.