Bingo Card Generator

Your list, shuffled into cards that are all different

Paste in words or numbers, one per line or separated by commas, and the generator deals them into grids. Every card in the batch is a different arrangement.

Sight words. Vocabulary. Times-table answers. Key dates. Anything with more entries than there are squares will work, and what comes out is a branded PDF ready to print and cut.

Grid size decides how long the game lasts

A 3×3 needs nine items and finishes fast, which is what you want for the last five minutes of a lesson. A 5×5 needs twenty-five, or twenty-four with the FREE centre switched on, and will fill a proper session.

4×4 sits between them and is the one to pick if you are unsure. Cards per page follows the same logic: four to a sheet saves paper, one to a sheet gives large text, and that matters more than it sounds for a room where somebody is calling items out from the front.

The seed is the feature nobody notices until they need it

Type a word or a number into the seed box and that exact set of cards can be regenerated at any point in the future.

Which means: two children were absent, and next week you print their two cards from the same set rather than reprinting thirty. Or a card gets destroyed at lunchtime and you replace exactly that one. Leave the seed blank and the tool picks a random one from the browser's crypto API, and that set is gone the moment you close the tab.

Seeds are case-sensitive. ClassA and classa produce completely different sets, which is either a nuisance or a convenient way to make two batches from one word.

The call sheet

A master list of every item, for whoever is running the game. Optionally sorted alphabetically, which is what you want when someone shouts bingo and you have to verify five items quickly.

It lists the items and not which cards they landed on, so checking a winner means reading their card against the sheet rather than looking anything up. Print card numbers too and the child can call out a number, which turns verification into a ten-second job instead of a scrum at the front.

Three times table, twenty-five children

Paste 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36 into the items box. Grid 4×4, twenty-five cards, two to a page, card numbers on, call sheet on.

Thirteen sheets of A4. During the game you call three sevens rather than twenty-one, so the child has to do the multiplication before they can mark anything, and the bingo card has quietly become a mental arithmetic drill that thirty children are volunteering for. Note the seed before you close the tab.

Where it will complain

• You need at least as many unique items as there are squares: nine for a 3×3, sixteen for a 4×4, and either twenty-four or twenty-five for a 5×5 depending on whether the FREE centre is on.
• Give it a short list and items will repeat within a card, or it will tell you the list is too short.
• Long words may wrap or clip, and how badly depends on the grid size and how many cards share the page. Test one before printing thirty.
• FREE centre is 5×5 only. An even grid has no middle square to give away.