Biography of the game lotto

Set three? Eighty one! The heroes of Chekhov’s stories “Fraudsters involuntarily” and “kids” also play a seagull in Loto. In the master's sleeping noise. There, young ladies and gentlemen play Loto. The bet is a penny. Near the table is a first -class gymnasium student and cries. He wants to play in the lotto, but he is not allowed to go to the table. Fraudsters are involuntarily in the story of the writer “The kids” in the lotto are played by children who were left alone in the evening.

They play with money - and with a big excitement. But each of them has its own reason and its own attitude to the game: dad, mom and aunt Nadi is not at home. They left for christening to the old officer who travels on a small gray horse. In anticipation of their return, Grisha, Anya, Alyosha, Sonya and Kuharkin son Andrei sit in the dining room at the dining table and play in the lotto.

All shout out the numbers in turn, except Sonya and Alyosha.

In view of the monotony of numbers, practice has developed many terms and ridiculous nicknames. So, seven players are called a poker, eleven - sticks, seventy -seven - Semen Semenych, ninety - grandfather, etc. The game is Boyko. Twenty -eight - hay is kosim! The children are the story and the rules of the game in Loto Loto are a gambling game on special maps with rows of numbers printed on them.

On each map there are three rows, in each of which are nine speakers. They have 15 random numbers from 1 to 90 five in a row; The discharge of dozens of digits corresponds to the number of the column on the left, counting from scratch; The number 90 is placed in the last column. The game is that the players are closed on the maps of numbers indicated on special features most often wooden barrels.

One of the participants in the game calls the numbers that he reads on the “fluent” chips taken from the bag. The player wins who will previously close all the numbers or one or more horizontal rows on his card. In the latter case, the winnings, depending on the closed row, can be only half a horseman or not at all, only completing the current circle and starting the following: with the transition of the right to “crumble” the next player and the need to make new bets on con.

Bets are usually made “from each card” with the player’s ability to play on several cards. Many numbers on barrels have folk names, both traditional for this number, for example 12 - a dozen, 13 - damn dozen, and specific for the lotto. For the first time, the lotto is mentioned in Italy in the 16th century. The name "Lotto" translated from Italian means a lottery. Soon the game was banned as gambling, but this did not prevent the Italians from continuing to play it.

Soon the game was legalized, and the income from it went to the treasury. Then it began to acquire the features familiar to us, but at first only the nobles played in the lotto. Along with card games in Loto, it was customary to play after dinner. In the XIX century, the game became more common, representatives of the middle class played in it. Lotto gained particular popularity in the Soviet Union, which became Russian lotto from the Italian lottery.

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