Keno is a lottery-based games, which
usually consists of a ticket with the numbers 1 to 80.
Keno players should usually choose 20 numbers and mark
them on their keno ticket. Once they have made their bet,
so preferred that 20 random numbers. These 20 numbers are
the winning keno numbers in this particular round of play.
Players win compared to how many numbers of the drawn
numbers, they have bet on. Every casino has its very own
payout schedule that emphasizes the payments offered in
relation to how many tracks players have bet on.
Keno game originates from ancient China. However, there
are no precise details as to when the game was invented.
There are various legends and stories that tell that the
game originated before even the Great Wall of China was
raised, and the game even helped to pay prevention of the
wall. There are others who believe that the game was
invented over 3000 years ago, which actually makes it one
of the oldest games that exist in the modern world.
There are some historians who believe that the game
originated 200 BC, during the fight Han dynasty. The word
"Keno" comes from the Latin or French, and comes from the
word "five" in connection with the five winning numbers.
Today it is still a mystery as to how the game got its
Latin name, as the game came to America in the 19th
century by Chinese immigrants who moved there.
In the United States developed the game into what it is
today. The 120 characters that existed in the original
Chinese version was replaced with the 80 numbers that we
use today. Since gambling was legal in the United States
included the games in the United States is not
lottery-based games so Keno got a new name: the "Race
Horse Keno" (Horse Keno). It was this new name to give the
feeling that the game had nothing to do with horse racing.
When the US government then began to take tax from the
profits from these races, made the game's name to Keno
again and thus people continue to play it.