Keno Online and Off

If you like bingo or lottery games Keno is the game for you! Starting way back in the ancient Chinese Han Dynasty, today it is a popular casino game with several interesting variations and simple rules. Basically, Keno is a game where twenty balls out of eighty are chosen arbitrarily from inside a plastic bubble. Played online, the numbers are randomly picked by computer software.

It is as easy as filling out a card, similar to a lottery card but with much better odds. You simply write down up to twenty numbers from a selection of eighty and hope with all your heart that the numbers you chose match the numbers that are randomly hit.

How much money can you win? Well that depending on how many of them match. Of course, there are still strategies to playing keno even though it is basically a luck-based game; mainly how many and which numbers to choose:

• How many numbers — well the more numbers you write down the more money you can win, but the more numbers you play the more matches you need to get in order to win any money. To play it safe choose fewer places so your chances of money are higher, but if you want to live dangerously, pick more numbers and keep your fingers crossed — who knows, you may hit the jackpot!

• Choosing numbers — it’s all random! So go wild and choose any number, if you have a lucky number maybe go with that… though many keno player swear by the ‘hot number’ system, where they keep track of repeating hits, and bet on them.

If you want to become a Keno player, there are some words and phrases that could help you along the way:

Spots — the numbers you choose on your card

Hits — your winning numbers!

The Keno ticket — that card you write your umbers on

Well just to make it more interesting there are different types of Keno tickets which have different ways to bet:

Straight Ticket — the most basic ticket, which refers to the one bet

Way Ticket — apart from choosing numbers, you can also choose number combinations, by dividing the numbers into groups.

Combination Ticket — again there are number groups, but with this ticket you can play them with any bet

King Ticket — a circled number becomes the ‘king’ and you can use it in any combination!

Like any other popular casino game, Keno has many variations, with house rules changing in every casino — so you can never get bored. One of the most common variations is Power Keno which was first begun in Australia. The basic rules are the same, except that this time it is based on the twentieth number chosen. If this number matches any of the numbers on your card then you can win four times the usual amount of money! Not a joke, you win quadruple!!

With such a combination of large winnings, simple rules and relaxing game, no wonder keno has become such a popular game, particularly among bingo and slot players.