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KENO HISTORY
Ancient Chinese scrolls show that Cheung
Leung introduced the game we now call keno around 200 BC.
Cheung’s city was at war for several years and was beginning
to run out of provisions. The people of his city refused
to give any more to his war fund, so the ingenious Cheung
created a game of chance to produce income for his army.
This game, keno, was an instant success and the city was
saved. Spreading throughout China, keno was used to help
finance the building of the Great Wall. The game also became
known as the White Pigeon Game because carrier pigeons were
used to send the results from the keno games in the larger
cities to small villages.
In the earliest versions of keno, characters were used
in the body of the ticket rather than numbers 1 through 80. These characters
are the first eighty of an ancient poem known as "The Thousand Character
Classic". This poem was used in China as the second primer for teaching
reading and writing to children. By putting one thousand characters into
a more or less logical rhymed form, learning was most probably made easier
and more interesting . It is something of a very great achievement in
that no character is repeated. This poem was so well known in China that
its one thousand characters, arranged in order, were often used as a fanciful
way of notation or counting from one to a thousand. Well that's
all you really need to know about Keno History.
