“Bingo is a bit like country and western music; you don’t know you like it until you are older”
THE truly international character of bingo was brought home to me forcefully in about 1990 when I went with a Novomatic delegation led by Johann Graf (president of the Austrian company) to visit its casinos in Peru.
The trip - exhausting, because Graf has boundless energy - also took in a few locations in Colombia and edged across the border into coastal Venezuela where he had a bingo hall. It was packed with mainly middle-aged women who (unlike European or North American locations) chatted freely and loudly through games.