Free printable bingo card generator

How to play, and how to print

Making the cards

Put one word or short phrase on each line (commas work too). Duplicates are removed, ignoring capitals, so "Cake" and "cake" count once. A 5x5 card with a free space needs at least 24 different words, 5x5 without one needs 25, 4x4 needs 16 and 3x3 needs 8 or 9. The minimum fills only one card, because a second card would hold the same set. With 25 words there are 25 possible 5x5 cards, but any two share 23 of their 24 words, so players finish almost together. Aim for about 1.5 times the minimum — 36 to 40 words for 5x5 — so cards really differ.

With Free space on, Free space text puts your own words in the centre square of every card instead of FREE: a baby's name, "Happy 40th", a team name. It takes up to 24 characters, long text wraps and shrinks to fit (one short word reads best on a 5x5 card printed 4 per page), an empty box prints FREE, and changing it redraws the same cards rather than reshuffling them.

"Unique" here means no two cards carry the same set of words, not merely a reshuffle. If your list is too short for the number of cards you ask for, the page says how many it can make instead of quietly printing repeats.

To give each child in a class their own card, paste the class list into Names on cards, one name per line: 28 names make 28 cards, card 1 prints "Ana · Card 1 of 28 · set 482913" under the grid, and the cards are exactly the ones the same set number and card count make without names, so a lost card can be reprinted. Names stay in the box on this device; they are never saved or sent, so paste them again after a reload.

Your own pictures

Add pictures puts your own photos or drawings on the cards: family faces for a reunion, the class's own artwork, photos of the objects on a nature walk. Each picture is one entry, exactly like a word, so it counts toward the minimum (a 3x3 card with a free space needs 8 entries: 5 words and 3 pictures will do) and toward how many unique cards the list can make. Its caption starts as the file name without the extension (IMG_2034.jpg becomes "IMG_2034"); change it to what the caller will read out, or clear it to print the picture alone. Two pictures with the same caption are still two different squares.

Your browser shrinks each picture to at most 400 pixels on its long side and keeps it as a JPEG in this tab's memory. On a 5x5 card printed 2 per page that is well over 300 dpi, sharp enough for paper, and it keeps a 100-picture PDF to a few megabytes. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing about the pictures is saved: close or reload the tab and they are gone (your words stay). Pictures print in colour on the cards and in the PDF. The Caller sheet button prints each picture beside its caption; the PDF caller sheet lists captions only. iPhone HEIC photos open in Safari; other browsers cannot read them, so share them as JPEG first. The on-screen caller cannot see your pictures, so call a picture game from the printed caller sheet.

Printing

Choose 1, 2 or 4 cards per page and Letter or A4, then press Print cards. Download PDF builds one file in your browser with the cards first and the caller sheet on the last page or pages, which is easier to send to a print shop or print from a phone. The PDF uses the plain Helvetica font every PDF reader has, so it can only show Western European letters (accents like é and ñ, curly quotes, €); emoji and other scripts print as "?" and the page names the words affected. Print cards uses your browser's fonts and shows them correctly. Two per page suits most games; four per page is fine for 3x3 and 4x4 but makes 5x5 squares small (about 16 mm), so long phrases shrink. In the print dialog, set margins to Default and scale to 100%. On a phone, use Share → Print, or Print → Save as PDF.

Calling the game

Caller sheet prints every word in a shuffled order with a tick box. Read them top to bottom and tick as you go; when someone shouts bingo, check their card against the ticks. Usual win: a full row, column or diagonal. For a longer game, play four corners, then blackout (every square). How long a game runs depends on the list and the room: in 2,000 simulated games with this page's 36 sample words on 5x5 cards with a free space, the first line came after a median of 14 calls with 8 players and 11 calls with 30 players. A longer list makes every game longer.

Themed bingo cards

• Christmas — a kids list and a family list, 60 words each
• Thanksgiving — a dinner-table list and a kids list, 4x4 by default for mixed ages
• Baby shower — word cards from two lists, or blank gift-bingo cards with a gift tally sheet
• Bridal shower — shower-moment and wedding-word cards, or blank gift-bingo cards with a gift tally sheet
• Valentine's — a class-party list of kind words and card-making, 36 pictures for pre-readers, and a grown-ups' party list; 25 cards, 4 per page
• Easter — an egg hunt list for kids with 36 pictures for pre-readers, a spring family list, and calling cards to fold into plastic eggs; 25 cards, 4 per page
• St Patrick's Day — a classroom list of shamrocks, rainbows, green snacks and leprechaun-trap mischief, and a grown-up party list; 25 cards of 5x5, 2 per page
• Birthday party — a kids' party list with 37 pictures for pre-readers, and a grown-up list for a 30th or 40th with the birthday name in the free space
• New Year's Eve — a grown-up party list and an alcohol-free family night-in list, with a blackout game timed for midnight
• Hanukkah — a 56-word family list that lasts all eight nights at seven words a night, and short words on 3x3 cards for little ones
• Diwali — a 52-word classroom list of diyas, rangoli and sweets and a 52-word family party list, set up for a class of 25
• Kwanzaa — the seven principles in Swahili and English with the candles and symbols for class, and a 52-word family evening list, with the principles quoted from the official site
• Fall (autumn) — an outdoors list for orchards, leaf piles and hay rides and an autumn science list for class, with no Halloween or Thanksgiving words
• Winter — a non-holiday classroom list of snow, frost and winter animals and a cosy at-home list, for December to February
• Find someone who — human bingo for the first day of class or a team meeting: a line in each square for a classmate's or colleague's name, no caller
• Reading challenge — a month of reading tasks for a class or library, young readers or grown-ups, with a line in each square for the book's title, no caller
• Kindness — a week of kind acts to tick off, a school list and a work-or-home list, for World Kindness Day on 13 November or any week; 30 cards of 5x5, no caller
• Retirement party — send-off moments from the speech to the leaving card, and a next-chapter list the retiree calls, 5x5 with their name in the free space
• Graduation party — a high school or college grad-party list, and a preschool or kindergarten list with 36 pictures for little graduates; 5x5, 30 cards, 2 per page
• Football party — for the big game: plays to watch for on the field and a snacks, ads and halftime list, no team names, players mark what happens with no caller
• Office — a work holiday party list with a caller sheet, and a meeting and video-call list for marking quietly
• Road trip — a car-window spotting list and a little-kids list, one card per passenger, blackout for long drives
• Day of the Dead — an English list for a family evening and a 57-word Spanish list with el and la for a language class, 35 pictures for pre-readers; 30 cards of 5x5, 2 per page
• Veterans Day and Remembrance Day — a US class list and a Remembrance Day list (poppy, two minutes' silence), 37 pictures for pre-readers; 25 cards of 4x4, 4 per page
• Halloween — a kids' party list and a costume party list, 3x3 for little ones up to 5x5 for adults
• Sight words — four classroom lists from Pre-K and K to Grade 3, big-print 3x3 cards for new readers
• Picture bingo — a drawing in every square for children who cannot read yet: 34 animals and 72 things from around the house and kitchen, with or without the word underneath
• ESL vocabulary — four beginner English topic lists (colours and shapes, food and drink, animals, classroom words) to call by word, picture or clue
• 1-75 numbers — classic 75-ball cards with B-I-N-G-O columns and a printable caller board
• Large print — 1-75 number cards with numbers 1.65 times bigger, bold, thick grid lines, 1 or 2 per page, for seniors and low vision
• Any number range — 1-20, 1-100 or counting by 2, 5 or 10, on 3x3, 4x4 or 5x5 cards for counting and number recognition in class
• 1-90 numbers (UK) — 90-ball tickets in strips of six that use every number once, with a 1-90 caller board
• Blank cards — empty 3x3 to 5x5 grids with or without a free space, for players who write in their own words
• Vocabulary review — word cards for any subject, with a caller sheet of definitions that you type as word = clue, each answer in small print; starts with 32 science words
• Spanish vocabulary — Spanish words with el or la on the cards and the English on the caller sheet: animals, colours and numbers, food and the classroom, or pictures for pre-readers
• Phone bingo — no paper: the host sends one link from the caller and every player gets a numbered card to tap on their phone
• Addition — cards that show answers to sums, from number bonds to 10 up to adding three numbers, with a caller sheet of sums and each answer in small print
• Multiplication — times-table or addition cards that show answers, with a caller sheet of problems and each answer in small print
• Fractions — cards that show simple fractions; the caller reads an equal fraction (6/8 for 3/4) or shows a shaded bar

Your word list and settings stay in this browser (localStorage). Pictures and names on cards are held in memory only while this tab is open and are never stored. Nothing is uploaded, pictures too; the cards are built on your device.