The Past of Online Keno

Every one of the online casino games has one form of history or the other that surrounds it. The online keno too does have some very important history that every interested player should take some time to look into. It may even be better to have a grasp of the history and origin of keno before you start playing at all; either online or offline.

There are some questions that every player of online keno needs to find answer to before he or she can play the game successfully. Some of these questions are only successfully answered by a good knowledge of the source and origin of the game of keno.

There are so many online casino games around. Many of them are so popular. But online keno is not as popular as other casino games. This does not mean it came far behind many other casino games. The game too had been around for a very long time. Some people are even of the opinion that online keno has a richer history than many of the other online casino games.

China was the main origin of the game of keno. The whole idea of the game started about 2000 years ago. The man behind the origin of the game as a man named Cheung Leung. The game was invented by this man with the hope of using it to save his city. The game was played by the people of the city and much revenue was generated to save the city after the citizens refused to pay tax for the wars being fought.

History has it that the revenues generated form the game was also used in building the Great Wall of China. It was not before long that the game spread through the whole of China. It was later given the name of 'White Pigeon Game'. It got this name considering the fact that the results of games were communicated from cities to villages through pigeons.

The game had gone through lots of modifications since the very first time that it was invented. The form of the game available both online and offline today is not the same that was available in times past.

The rules you will have to obey in today's form of the game and the one that is now available online are however not too different from what they rules had been since its origin.