who reached out to GBH's Curiosity Desk with a question: The game has also been a source of curiosity for Dan McCarthy from Burlington, Mass. “And at the end of the night we cash in our tickets and whatever we make goes towards the bill.” “Just for the fun alone, we do it,” she said. “I love to come in and play my numbers.”Īt the nearby restaurant Shanghai Moon 1987, Marilyn Smith said that she and her two daughters have been meeting every Wednesday for the past seven years for dinner, drinks and Keno. “I’ve been playing since I was 19, and that’s a long, long, long time ago,” said Fran Martins at the Daily Mart in Medford.
At some bars and corner stores around these parts, it's also a way of life. Keno is a lottery game with roots in ancient China, whose name is a nod to Latin.
