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Keno
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 It is a lottery like gambling game. This game is very much similar to bingo and often played in casinos. In traditional Keno game, they used a glass enclosure containing 80 ping pong which are like small balls. These balls determines the results of balldraw. A blower pushes the air into glass enclosure and the balls get mixed. After that a caller presses the lever and a ball lifts into a V shaped tube. At a time only one ball is lifted. The numbers ranging from 1 to 80 are imprinted on these balls. In some states this games is used for declaring the results of state lotteries. The roots of the word Keno comes from French but the origin of the game Keno has been dated back in China. Chinese used a printed sheet to play this game. The characters printed on this sheet is Chinese characters which are the first 80 characters of Thousand Character Classic. It is believed that this game saved the city and also raised fund to built the great wall of china. But this is declined as the china government did not accept the idea to raise the fund through lottery system till 19th century. Each casino has their own series of pay scale which is normally called paytables. No two casinos have identical paytables. The range of house edge is also vary from casino to casino. The different ranges of house edge is from less than 4 % to 66%. The payout is based on the number that draws and match with the tickets. In modern Keno there are many different ways to determine balldraw. The different ways available are:
1. “Rabbit Ear” blower.
2. An automated blower AKV in which encoded balls are read by computer and then further send for processing.
3. Random number generator: It is an electronic device approved by authorities to generate number electronically.
4. Hand cage: It is a spinning metal ball cage. |
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