Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1869-11-04
KENO AND IT'S VICTIMS.

man. and now wish Id stayed away and
let him.
KENO AND IT'S VICTIMS.
Hl.tory Of the Game and How It 1.
Played-fA0w 0rooalss arc Rlssoed.
As many OF the young men Of the cities
stalking the chances" at keno, the follow.
Post OF the keno room in operation may
prove interesting to the uninitiated:
Keno. which has in great measure TAX
en- the place of faro, at least in the North
west, is founded on the German game call
ed Lotto, a diversion or sport. It was or
iginally intended for children, or when
carefully played, by older persons, and
made some skillful calculation necessary.
Gradually it was altered, and amended un-
til it has become = means of seemingly
cheap, but IN fact terribly expensive gam
bling. =. = ,
I Five or six long tables in the room are
strewn with thick pasteboard cards, about
7bv 81 inches in size. In tho center Of
each card is number in large figures.
This card is in fact the player, for, as will
be seep,. the rest of the game is merely
mechanical as regards the men playing.
There are 81 spaces or squares marked on
the card-7 horizontal and three perpen-
dicular. In six of these squares on each
of the horizontal row of spaces are small
figures, each space containing number
chosen at random from 1 to 200. This
fills just Is squares out of 81, leaving 6
olank spaces ceo 1ns NUMBER o! me caro-
ssueo- ~ 1oy..A sae losm oesc,'oeo, ana
eaon payer ass sne 4atSeseatF"I NUMBER,
~ menuoAea I, HDoysr teelsteleo on
~: pQaSd WIN n y, - :. .1o!A ,.Pegs,
ana,- nunDa!ea 70 co1teePGla Hln tne
catqe Evefy. payer pay 20 CENT 70 tne
1aakei lof one LINE cssos .deseIl1ed' ana
lEmoIe tnsn one 10 NsGn ;ng Payhk4e same
kpr1ce for eecn adoluenh one ana me game
opens "a man o9 the GAN, u the center
OF me room, w11f!e Dottle snapped wood
en- thing. which Eis hned With. ~ little balls,
numbering'.a = Aes Poard fcom one to
e~o hundred lAt eacn .res9iatlon one OF
these oel9 70 stnSoMn eu1.oI the ootue ana
caught IN me nend OF tne operator, VINO
CRIES opt2 she nQmpeE 4alkeo; 9n A. ana
verypleyer whose card contains tho cor
=. button Of. CHECK. ;, The PLAYER who frst
fills straight row of five numbers called
,"Keno. {" Isl entitled to the stnkessin the
Bankers. hands cminus Is per cent.
e.; Plac,nn the number of. players at twentv.
what-are tho chances of winnino? Thev
have deposited IS. a. onartef each that
is. If each onbe plays but one card: SDf this
the banker takes 81 %. leaving SAWS to the
winner. Here nre twenty players. each
holcl;na a card with a liHer1nt cdnnh ination
of numbers. 10 be covered a. ,oalled. Two.
fkrea fite. III. 81 more r]aVala NAV cover
ashnmbar at the same timc. 'nnlsss III it,
tia halis indicate fonr other numbers on the
sauna line h;s ohances nf winnin0t "A come
ESQ 'tha Greater the number IF nIoVars Tho
Hasa chenca for w;nninr tha nonI Tfwantv
NAV the odds are: nineteen ID oaaa This
would seem .enormons. odds. hut ri ia not
aii. . Ont of 900 Won .have INT " fionres
that can possible win: that q. xod have
three rows Of figures each, and. one Of these
rows must be covered; l3a chances ioainst
one / Nov the odds in favor of the iplaver
are erv small: if he wins he gets fiftsen
times as much as he invested. The bal
once. then can be fairly cast al follows:
Odds against players. ........g: ;, 80 Is
Odds in favor Of players. .......:.,,.15
- ,,, ...! -
Total agalnst clqnces OF winning III IL
fes young laen ana old men lake this
venture n,ghtly' when IN the ordinary
course Of business they would hesitate to
risk anything at a tlthe OF snch odds. 1t
must be clear that they afeonly' deposlting
IN the cOners OF an unscrupul0ns gambler