One of the stories comes from China. This story sounds like a fairytale, but it is possible that lotteries are invented in China. A lot of inventions come from China and all the Chinese love all sorts of games.
The main character in this story is General Leung, who had to prepare the plan to fund the construction of The Great Wall in China. It was impossible to launch new taxes, so the General started to think about how to encourage people to spend their money.
General Leung invented the game for everyone, who had money to play. The first game board consisted of 120 pools with Chinese signs. The player had to throw the pawn to the lottery board. The pools with the pawn were winning pools. What is important – the player had to choose 10 of signs before the game.
Some of today's experts think that the game invented by General Leung is a prototype of Keno.
A lot of sources tells that the Chinese people talked about their lottery game during the journeys around the world. That is why lottery games became popular on each of continents.