Online Keno

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Keno is a game that has become increasingly popular, especially since Norsk Tipping introduced the game to its range of games. Although the game has been available for several years, it is far from new we are actually going back thousands of years in time to find the game's historical beginnings.

Keno is an old game and like many other casino games, have roots that are very old. The word itself has both a French and a Latin origin. Quinemeans 'five winning numbers, while Quini means five each. But even with these definitions, there is little doubt that the game itself originated in China, and is said to have originated during the Han Dynasty 3,000 years ago. The story goes that the dynasty, which was ruled by Cheung Leung, had been in a long, hard, and exhausting war that had consumed all the financial resources.

Leung is said to have been unable to obtain more money from the city's residents, and that he had already taken as much money as he could from them in taxes. However, Leung was not a beaten man and he clearly knew the human tendency to try his luck. He, therefore, ...
... decided to invent a new game, and with that Keno was launched. The game thus had its first role as a tool to raise money so that the war in the Han Dynasty could end! Another legend says that the game was also used to raise funds for the construction of the Great Wall of China, but it should be remembered that this Chinese lottery was not approved by the authorities until the 19th century so whether these myths are true or not is not known a.

From Letters to Numbers

Keno, as we know it today, is far from the same game as when it was invented. When the Chinese started playing it, 120 Chinese characters were used, and it is actually the case that they still use letters rather than numbers but the number has been reduced to 80, which is also the number of numbers we play within the Western world today. It was actually Chinese sailors who brought the game to the United States and specifically to the San Francisco area, and it has been changed from letters to numbers so that Americans could understand it more easily. In the US, however, gambling was legal in some states, including Nevada, while lotteries were not. Online keno was seen by the authorities as a lottery and was therefore banned. The Americans, on the other hand, showed wisdom and elegantly circumvented the ban by renaming it Race Horse Keno to give the impression that it was a game where you bet on horses. Every number a player placed a bet on was presumably on a horse, and in this way, people continued to play. The authorities nevertheless found a way out and made horse racing taxable, and thus also Race Horse Keno. Lotteries eventually became legal and the game regained its original name, continuing its growth in popularity.