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See also:LOTTO (Ital. for " See also:lot ") , a gambling See also:game usually called Keno in See also:America, played by any number of persons upon large boards or See also:cards, each of which is divided into three See also:horizontal rows of nine spaces, four spaces in each See also:row being See also:left See also:blank and the other five marked with See also:numbers up to 9o . Each card is designated by a See also:general number . The cards usually See also:lie on the gambling-table, and a player may buy from the See also:bank as many as he cares to use, each card being registered or pegged on an exposed table as soon as bought . Ninety small See also:ivory markers, generally balls flattened on one See also:side, numbered from 1 to 90, are placed in a bag and shaken out one by one, or, more usually, in a so-called keno-See also:goose, a See also:kind of See also:urn with a spout through which the balls are allowed to See also:roll by means of a See also:spring . When a number falls out, the banker, or keno-See also:roller, calls it out distinctly, and each player upon whose card that number occurs places a See also:mark over it . This is repeated until one player has all the numbers in one row of his card covered, upon which he calls out " Keno ! " and wins all the See also:money staked excepting a percentage to the bank . |
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