The debate about which of the two is better – online or offline keno – has been on ever since keno first went online with the rest of the gambling games. However, there is no clear answer to this question, and one can put it down to a matter of personal preference. There could be some people who love playing Keno at a land-based offline casino, simply because they are used to it, or because they love the ambiance that a casino...

Keno is distinguished from other types of gambling games as all of the action takes place in its own lounge, in a “fictional” way. Originally, Keno was based on make-believe horse races that were created by Nevada casino owners in order to get around a law that said that Keno was illegal, as lotteries were illegal in the United States until the 1960s. Like bingo, playing keno required its own room and seating. It also requires...

In North America, you generally mark up the ticket with a black writing instrument called a crayon or an indelible marker. However, there are Las Vegas casino and in Europe that still use the old fashioned brushes and India ink. These have been used to mark Keno tickets since 100 B.C., the century when the game of keno had its start as the Chinese Lottery. Collecting Your Money It is always a good idea to verify the numbers you have chosen...

The heritage produced by this keno history is a Chinese poem of a thousand numbers. The ‘thousand character classic’ as it is known is a set of independent characters placed in a rhymed form. Originally a new way for children to learn, the poem is so well known the characters are often used as a romantic numbering system. So instead of having a board of just numbers on the original keno boards, they used these characters. Play...

The origins of keno are a bit of a mystery, but there are a few stories floating around out there. What’s the truth? Sadly, as with all history, the truth is a matter of opinion. Apparently ancient Chinese scrolls indicate that Cheung Leung of the Han Dynasty introduced a game similar to keno around 200 BC. Cheung’s city was at war for several years and was beginning to run out of supplies. Rumor has it that the citizens of his...

By 1963, the United States government decided to tax the proceeds of horse track racing, including revenue earned from Keno Horse Racing. At this point the casinos in Nevada dropped the Horse Race part of the game’s name and just called it keno. Until 1989, nobody was allowed to win more than $50,000 playing keno in Nevada but since then the amount of the jackpots have zoomed sky high. Since then keno has also become a popular game on the...