When you’re thinking of Keno, you should think of a lottery game going at a faster rate and with a different diffusion media and with more winning opportunities.

The word “Keno” has French and Latin roots, meaning Quine = “five winning numbers” on the first case and Quini = “five each” on the latter case.

The game is said to have originated by the time of the Han Dynasty in china as a lottery game. When thinking of Keno and the Chinese culture and how it’s used to explore the history throughout the traditional Chinese legends, we found that legends say that the start of Keno dates might go back to the Great Wall where it was used as a meaning of providing funds for the construction project of the Great Wall, which is impossible because the conception of lottery as means of state funding on the east doesn’t start until 1847 when the Portuguese Government of Macau decided to grant licenses to lottery operators which latter expanded to the nearby towns using carrier pigeons.

The lottery game was known as “white pigeon” because it used carrier pigeons to move the numbers across neighboring towns. The game was first based on 180 Chinese alphabet characters

The Chinese workers brought to the states to help build the American Transcontinental Railroad, in the 19^th century brought the Keno fever to the states. On the west coast the game started to take popularity among the Chinese workers in the construction site, and soon it started appealing to the American and British around, so lottery operators change the characters to Arabic number, and the game spread through all 1800.

When the prohibition started it went underground until Nevada opened the gates to gambling again, but then a loophole on the regulation didn’t allowed lotteries to operate, the game was deemed illegal, so the lottery operators change the name to Race Horse Keno, and the numbers were assigned to a horse. Latter when the anti-gambling laws where completely withdraw the game was back with its Keno name.

On the Casino implementation of the game not only a cashier operator was needed but also a game operator to verify the balls and publish them to the keno players on the saloon, with the intervention of electronics the latter was replaced with a ball reader device and an electronic board. From there Casinos started to let players place multi race tickers for various consecutive races, instead of just one. Today Casino players could place multi race bets and go to their rooms where thought a channel or specific diffusion system they could watch the outcome of the games.

Later it evolved to some Casinos allowing players to take their tickets back home and check the outcome of the games throughout the internet in place like www.kenousa.com.

Players normally have like a year to redeem their winnings. Also with the evolution of the slots machines the Casinos introduced video keno, and with that the RNG became part of the game. The evolution of the internet brought the game generator and keno to the player immersed on the online experience.