How to play Keno
The game of keno has very ancient roots and goes all the way back to ancient China. The game was first introduced to the United States of America by Chinese immigrants during the late eighteen hundreds. The game of keno is originally based on an ancient Chinese poem called a thousand characters but the game itself utilizes eighty characters.
The eighty characters were changed from Chinese to numbers after the game became popular in America. Learning how to play keno is very easy as the game play itself is very basic and is in fact very similar to the game of bingo as well as sharing some similarities to modern day lottery games which are actually inspired by the game of keno.
How Keno Works
The way that keno works is very simple. It does not take long to learn how to play. It is also a game that does not require a great deal of effort and is therefore very popular among casino players especially at the Platinum Play Online Casino who do not like to get too involved in rules and strategies but rather just like to have fun.
Keno consists of a card made up of eighty numbers; the numbers are usually divided into eight rows of ten numbers. The object of the game of keno is to select twenty numbers out of those eighty numbers and then place a bet on those numbers being selected in the next draw.
The live keno game which is the traditional casino keno game is very often played in what is known as a keno lounge, this is very similar to a bingo hall except it is usually a lot plusher and very often adjoins a restaurant.
The actual game consists of a machine which blows air into a clear plastic drum, this drum contains eighty balls and as the air forces the balls to fly around the drum randomly so one ball at a time is forced through a hole. Each ball that is forced through the hole goes towards the twenty needed for a round or race as it is often still called. Payouts are usually multiples of your original bet, in other words if one of your predicted numbers comes in it is say one dollar if that was your bet, two numbers is double and so on.
