Sentence examples for keno from inspiring English sources
The word 'keno' is correct and usable in written English
It refers to a game of chance similar to bingo where players choose numbers and wait for them to be randomly drawn. Example: "I couldn't decide between playing keno or blackjack at the casino, but in the end, I chose to try my luck with keno and ended up winning a small jackpot."
noun
A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
Video poker and keno have earned a reputation as the "crack cocaine of gambling" because they are faster and more addictive than traditional table games such as blackjack.Experts haggle over the numbers, but up to 3% of the population may be compulsive gamblers as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.
Baige piao (or pak-a-pu, as it became known in the West) is the ancestor not only of keno but also of lotto and bingo.
At that time it also acquired the name keno, a corruption of the French word quine ("group of five").
Today keno is played (with many daily drawings) in nearly all American casinos as well as in many casinos in Australia, South Africa, South America, and East Asia.
Those Nevada laws were changed in 1951, after which keno became a game with numbers.
Organized gambling on a larger scale and sanctioned by governments and other authorities in order to raise money began in the 15th century with lotteries and centuries earlier in China with keno.
In 1933 keno was introduced in gambling houses in Reno, Nevada, under the name Race-Horse Keno, with names of horses instead of numbers on the tickets so as not to conflict with state laws concerning lotteries.
The house advantage in casino keno is considerable about 25 percent.
The restaurant had no terminals for Quick Draw, the fast-paced, mesmerizing, keno-style game that critics have labeled "video crack".
An ethics committee subsequently ruled that he had plagiarised his doctoral thesis, but he did not resign.Cotidianul also accused Keno Verseck, a freelance who reports for Der Spiegel, a German weekly, and Deutsche Welle, the German public-funded external broadcasting service, of lying and misinforming his audience about Romania's political crisis.
In one chapter of Dr. Simeone's book, Leigh and Leslie Keno of PBS's "Antiques Roadshow" emphasize that a passion for collecting antique furniture and fine art is centuries old, and that careful preservation is nearly absolute for such objects.
