The actual phrase Bingo was coined after the game was first introduced in New York and a woman tongue tied with the excitement of winning yelled out B-B-B-Bingo!. Now, when you have all the required numbers, or pattern, to win you are suppose to yell out Bingo! right after your last winning number is called.
Bingo Province (P_V, Bingo no kuni) was a province of Japan on the Inland Sea side of western Honshk, comprising what is today the eastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture. It was sometimes grouped together with Bizen and Bitchu Provinces as Bishk (P]).
