![]() ![]() They then select numbers listed on a card, using various betting formulas. Players first obtain a blank keno ticket, which consists of eight lines, each with ten numbers in consecutive order. This game greatly resembles many of the state lottery drawings that have become popular in recent years. Professional gamblers often refer to it as a “sucker game” as it is based on pure luck and requires no real finesse. Keno was one of the first games to be introduced when Nevada legalized gambling in 1931 and still ranks as one of the state’s most popular games, even though it typically gives the house a 22 percent to 40 percent edge over the player. Since reading the Chinese characters was an obvious problem for non-Chinese, eighty Arabic numerals gradually replaced the original characters. ![]() Later, the number of characters was reduced to ninety, and when Chinese immigrants brought the game with them to America, where it became wildly popular, it was further reduced to eighty. In its earliest version choices consisted of 120 Chinese characters taken from Confucius’ Thousand Character Book. ![]()
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