Cryptologic Video Keno

Cryptologic Video Keno is a $0.25 Keno game that offers a Progressive Jackpot. Keno is kind of like a lottery, only it has 80 possible numbers and 20 numbers that are chosen with each round. All you have to do is choose how many numbers that you would like to bet on and the pay table will tell you how much you can win based on how many numbers you choose and how many hit. To win the jackpot, you must first be betting the max bet ( $1), you must also mark 10 numbers and finally, you must hit all 10 numbers.

The exact origins of the game of Keno are a little fuzzy, but the most often used theory is that there are some ancient Chinese scrolls that say that Cheung Leung of the Han Dynasty first introduced a Keno-like game sometime around 200 B.C. The reason stated for him doing this is that his city had been at war for a long time and was starting to run dangerously low on supplies and since those who lived in his city would not contribute any more money to the war fund, Cheung created a game of chance to help make money for his army. The game was a number-based game, very similar to today’s Keno, and was instantly a success and greatly helped to save the city.

The popularity of the game spread quickly throughout China and the revenues from the game were even used to help fund the building of the Great Wall of China. Because carrier pigeons were used in sending the winning number information from the bigger cities to the small villages and hamlets, the game was soon known as the White Pigeon Game. In 1931, Nevada changed the name of the game to Keno to get around new legislation that would have placed a tax on the game.