Printable Bingo Cards
How do I get bingo cards where every card is different?
Pick the grid, pick what goes in the cells, and download. Each card on each page is a separate draw: on a 5×5 card the B column holds five numbers from 1 to 15, the I column five from 16 to 30, and so on to O at 61–75, with a free space in the middle. Ten pages at four cards per page is forty cards — a whole class or a church hall — and the last page is the call sheet, a 1–75 board to tick off as the numbers come out.
The same settings always give the same cards, so a link can be printed again next week. Change the set number and the whole run is re-drawn. Printable bingo cards, 1–75.
Can I make bingo cards with my own words?
Yes. Switch the fill to words and type the list, one per line or separated by commas: spelling words, French vocabulary, the parts of a cell, the names of the people at a baby shower. A 5×5 card uses 24 words, a 4×4 card 16 and a 3×3 card 8, so give at least that many — with fewer, a word can appear twice on a card. The call sheet then lists every word with a tick box, so the caller reads from it instead of a bag of numbers.
For a younger class the 3×3 card is the one: nine big cells, a free space in the middle, and a line in three. 3×3 bingo cards.
Which card do I want?
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Classic 5×5, numbers 1–75
the standard American card with B-I-N-G-O over the columns and a free space in the centre. One card per Letter page, call sheet on page 2
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4 cards per page
four 5×5 number cards on one page with cut marks in the margins. Ten pages is forty cards
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Blank bingo cards
an empty 5×5 grid with the BINGO header, for writing the words in by hand or photocopying as a template
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3×3 for kids
nine cells, a free centre and numbers 1–45, for a first game of bingo
Do the cards repeat?
Not within one download: every card is drawn separately, and with numbers the chance of two identical 5×5 cards in a run of forty is effectively nil. Between downloads, the same settings and the same set number give exactly the same cards — that is deliberate, so a card someone lost can be printed again. If you want a fresh run, pick another set number; there are twenty.
Need a score pad for the evening's other games? The dice game score sheet.
