Keno

Probably, most of you have heard about Keno, one of the most popular casino games today. It turned out that Keno as most of the present gambling games date back the ancient times. Keno is similar to Lotto and you already noticed that probably. This amazing game has over three thousand years history and has changed its names a lot of times. It was done mostly because of the taxes and the laws.

The building of the Great Wall was the reason that made the Chinese to invent Keno. They needed money, in order to find their army. A hundred and twenty characters were used in the game, all of them Chinese. After that, their number was reduced to ninety. The Chinese immigrants, who worked on the building of the railroads brought the game to America in 19th century and the symbols were reduced to eighty.

The Keno was played a lot in San Francisco by the Chinese immigrants although it was forbidden. Many Americans were interested of the game, but the Chinese characters turned out to be a problem. These characters were replaced with Arabic numbers and attracted more players. It happened in the beginning of twentieth century.

The lottery was not legalized by Nevada, although most forms of gambling were legalized in 1931 and Keno is a lottery. The numbers were changed with horses and the game was renamed to Horse Race Keno.