THE GAME OF KENO

A Brief History - What is Keno ? Keno, is one of the most popular number games which is very similiar to LOTTO and BINGO, traces back to Chinese immigrants who helped build America's historically treasured Old West railroad. This ancient Chinese game was apparently invented by Cheung Leung around 200 B.C. as a way to raise money for a war fund. The game was so successful that it apparently was also used to fund the building of the Great Wall.

The early versions of Keno used characters on the body of the ticket, rather than numbers 1 through 80. Those characters were the first eighty of a well-known poem called "The Thousand Character Classic", which was used to teach reading and writing to children.

The Goal of the Game

This is much like playing the lottery. The goal is to choose the winning number or numbers!

The typical version of Keno is similar to the lotto, except that numbered balls come out of the Keno goose. The most typical version of keno is race-horse keno. In this game, the player has a numbered card and numbered ping-pong balls are drawn from a draw device to declare the winning nos. Hifunda Keno is computer driven and generates automatically randomly the numbers.