Bingo card generator
Make up to 100 different bingo cards from your own words, pictures, math facts or the numbers 1–75, then call the game on the projector with a tumbling ball cage, spoken calls and a card checker. Free, no sign-in, nothing leaves your computer.
Showing 4 of 31 pages. (Print always prints every page.)
To save a PDF, choose Print, then “Save as PDF” as the printer. Only the sheets print.
Your list has 30 items for 24 squares, so every card holds nearly the same items. Add 2 or more to make the cards differ.
30 different cards. No two are the same. The card number and set number on every card let the caller check a winner (press C while calling).
How to use it
- Type your items, one per line, or pick a ready list: 13 picture sets, Dolch sight words, times tables or number lists. For review bingo type “answer | clue” (“56 | 7 × 8”): the card shows the answer and the caller reads the clue. For classic bingo choose Numbers 1–75.
- Pick 3 × 3, 4 × 4 or 5 × 5, a free space (it can say anything, even an emoji), letters across the top (BINGO, or your own word such as MATH), and how many cards. Every card is a different board, with a card number and a set number printed under it.
- Press Print for the cards and a caller’s list. Then press “Call the game”: the ball cage tumbles, one ball pops out of the chute, and the call fills the screen. Press Space for the next ball.
- When someone shouts bingo, press C and type the number printed on their card: the caller ticks every called square and says “Bingo! Row 3” or what is still missing.
Ideas for class
- Math-fact bingo: choose “Times tables 2–9” from the ready lists. The answers go on the cards, the caller shows “7 × 8”, and Enter reveals 56 for anyone who missed it.
- Pre-K and kindergarten picture bingo: pick Animals or Feelings, choose “Picture only” and a 3 × 3 card. Turn on “Say each call aloud” so the class hears every word.
- Reading game: pick a picture set and choose “Word only”. The caller shows just the picture and the class hunts for its word.
- Sight-word decoding: turn on “Reveal letter by letter” in the caller settings. Letters appear one at a time and the class shouts the word as soon as they can read it.
- Chromebook or tablet day: press “Play on devices” in the caller. Students scan the code, type their card number and tap squares on screen, while the rest of the class plays on paper.
- Vocabulary review: put “word | definition” on each line, play Two lines or Blackout (press P), and check each winner with C so the class hears every word once more.
Related
Questions
Are the cards really different?
Yes. The maker shuffles your list for each card and never repeats a board in a batch. With more items than squares, cards also hold different items. If your list is too short to make that many different cards, it tells you.
How many items do I need?
A 5 × 5 card needs 25 (24 with a free space), a 4 × 4 needs 16 and a 3 × 3 needs 9. Use at least a third more than that so the cards differ from one another. Number bingo always uses 1–75.
How do I make bingo where I call a clue and students find the answer?
Write each line as “answer | clue”, for example “56 | 7 × 8” or “photosynthesis | how plants make food from light”. Two columns pasted from a spreadsheet work too. The cards show the answers; the caller shows the clue large, with the answer behind Enter, and the printed caller’s list reads “clue → answer”.
Can I make picture bingo?
Yes. Choose a picture set from “Fill the list with…” (animals, farm, ocean, food, fruit and vegetables, weather, things that go, school things, shapes and colors, sports, space, feelings, Halloween), or start any line with an emoji yourself. Squares can show the picture and word, the picture only, or the word only.
How do I check a winner?
Every card has a card number and a set number. In the caller press C and type the card number: you see that card with every called square ticked, the verdict for the pattern you are playing, and when each square on the line was called. It works because the cards are rebuilt from your list and the set number, so it is the same card you printed (keep the same set: “Make another” makes a new one).
What win patterns can I play?
One line, two lines, four corners, X, postage stamp (a 2 × 2 corner), picture frame and blackout. Press P in the caller to change it; a small card on the side shows the pattern so everyone knows what wins.
Can students play on their own devices?
Yes, with no accounts and no server. “Play on devices” in the caller shows a QR code and a link that hold your list after the # sign. Each student types a card number (or is dealt one), taps squares as you call them, and the screen says “Bingo!” with its card number for you to check. Their screens do not hear your calls, so students follow the projector just as with paper, and paper and screens can play the same game.
Does the caller talk?
If you turn on “Say each call aloud”, the browser’s own voice reads each call (“B, 7”, the word, or the clue) at the speed you set. The cage’s rattle, pop and ding are made in your browser too; press S to turn sounds off.
Can I save the cards as a PDF?
Choose Print, then “Save as PDF” as the printer. You can also save any page as a PNG image under its preview. Paper is US Letter or A4, one, two or four cards to a page, and the ink saver leaves the header row unfilled.
Is my list sent anywhere?
No. Cards are made in your browser. Your last list is remembered on this computer only. The Share and “Play on devices” links hold the list after the # sign, which browsers never send to our server, so anyone you give a link to can read the list, but we never see it.
What are the caller’s keyboard shortcuts?
Space or → calls the next ball, Enter shows the answer (or the rest of the letters), B or ← goes back one, A turns auto-call on or off (every 3, 5, 8 or 12 seconds), P changes the win pattern, C checks a card, W is “We have a winner!”, D shows the play-on-devices code, V turns the voice on or off, S the sounds, L the letter-by-letter reveal, R starts over, F is full screen and Esc closes. If your computer is set to reduce motion, the cage does not turn and there is no confetti; every call still appears.
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