From Bingo Halls to Apps: How the Ohio Valley Plays Games of Chance Now
Walk into a fire hall in Martins Ferry or a parish basement near Wheeling on a weekday evening, and the scene barely changes from one year to the next. Folding tables fill with paper cards, dabbers come out in every color, and a caller reads numbers into a microphone while neighbors chat between rounds. Bingo, raffle tickets at the county fair, the church festival wheel that spins for a basket of canned goods — games of chance have always been woven into how the Ohio Valley gathers and raises money. What's shifting isn't the love of a lucky draw. It's where some of that gentle ...