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.

"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.

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
• Halloween — a kids' party list and a costume party list, 3x3 for little ones up to 5x5 for adults

Your list and settings stay in this browser (localStorage). Nothing is uploaded; the cards are built on your device.