Bingo

Edwin Lowe is credited with inventing the game of Bingo in 1929 when Roscoe Bartlett was just 3 years old. Lowe's Bingo was a permutation of an earlier game called Beano which traced its history back to the Italian lottery. Just months after Lowe introduced Bingo in New York, a priest in Wilkes-Barre, PA approached Lowe with the idea of using Bingo as a way of saving his church from financial ruin. The church was saved, and the long tie between Bingo and the Catholic church began.