Human Bingo

Draw up grids of an appropriate size, this depends on your class size and the time you have available, but as a guide line no bigger than 5x3 or it takes too long. A quick rule of thumb is about 3 mins per box. You then generate a series of different cards with boxes appropriate to the group of people. People have to fill their cards with a different name in each box. You can add things to this - like find out something else linked to the question. Always try to have a few easy ones like eye colour and brown shoes.

You can have prizes for lines and full houses.

Ideal game for getting people to move around, meet and chat.

Below is an example set of cards for a group of adults at a session on using games in teaching. Please use and adapt if you like but be careful as some questions wouldn't apply to younger people (such as has children).

Answers to some of the questions

Capital Lithuania / Vilnius
Capital Portugal / Lisbon
Mice and Men / John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens
Haywain / John Constable
Lobster telephone / Salvidor Dali
Cf / Californium (no I'm not making this up - it a was discovered there)
Eu / Europium

Best of luck

Margaret

Has blue eyes / Has read ten books in the last 6 months / Plays the piano
Has played bridge / Reads more than 2 sets of minutes most weeks / Can tell you which element Eu is
Has brown eyes / Has worked in Careers for more than 10 years / Plays/ed the flute
Has played bridge / Has a daughter / Can tell you who painted Lobster telephone
Has a red car / Has read a non-fiction book this month / Plays squash
Supports Manchester United / Has a son / Can tell you who wrote of Mice and Men
Has brown eyes / Has never read a Harry Potter book / Reads science fiction
Has never played Monopoly / Has teenage children / Can tell you how to cook a soufflé
Has green eyes / Has learnt a new language since they were 18 / Can play a brass instrument
Used to have long hair / Owns a brown suit / Can tell you how to look after roses
Has a green car / Has written a book / Plays tennis
Has done a crossword puzzle this week / Has never been to America / Can tell you who what the capital of Portugal is
Has grey eyes / Has used Mind Mapping / Reads science fiction
Has never played Rugby / Has a cat / Can tell you how to change a tyre
Has glasses / Has read a newspaper this
week / Has read a biography in the last year
Has never been to an ice rink / Has a dog / Can tell you how to sail a boat
Doesn’t have a car / Reads books in the bath / Plays the trumpet
Has played canasta / Has read a novel in less than 3 hours / Can tell you which element Cf is
Has brown hair / Has read a comic in the last year / Can tell you how to make beer
Has played snap in the last year / Has a fish / Can tell you who painted the Haywain
Has a bicycle / Is a member of a book club / Plays football
Can play the violin / Has had a reptile as a pet / Can tell you who wrote Oliver Twist
Has brown eyes / Has not read a book in the last two months / Reads detective novels
Has never played Snake and Ladders / Has a cat / Can tell you how to cook a Yorkshire Pudding
Has blond hair / Has written a poem in the last two years / Can play a guitar
Can do the Rubik’s cube / Owns a green suit / Can tell you who how to look after potatoes
Has a red car / Has written music / Plays badminton
Has brown hair / Has never been to France / Can tell you who what the capital of Lithuania is
Has grey eyes / Has read the latest Harry Potter book / Reads detective books
Has never played Netball / Has a cat / Can tell you how to animate a PowerPoint presentation
Has glasses / Has given a lecture to more than 50 people at once / Can play a recorder
Can ride a horse / Has a dog / Can tell you how to do a mail merge in word
Has blue eyes / Has read a magazine this month / Plays the piano
Has played bridge / Wrote more than 10 sets of minutes in the last year / Can tell you which element Eu is
Has brown eyes / Has more than 200 books at home / Plays the flute
Has played bridge / Has a daughter / Can tell you who painted Lobster telephone
Has a red car / Has read the full set of Lord of the Rings / Plays squash
SupportsManchesterCity / Has a son / Can tell you who wrote of Mice and Men
Has brown eyes / Has worked here for less than 2 years / Reads science fiction
Has never played Monopoly / Has teenage children / Can tell you how to cook a soufflé
Has green eyes / Has worked here for more than 10 years / Can play a brass instrument
Used to have long hair / Owns a brown suit / Can tell you how to look after roses
Has a green car / Has written a book / Plays tennis
Supports Bradford Bulls / Has never been to America / Can tell you who what the capital of Portugal is
Has grey eyes / Reads detective novels / Reads science fiction
Has been on a cruise ship / Had/has fish / Has a pair of red shoes
Has grey hair / Has been at the University for more than 7 years / Has read a biography in the last year
Has run a marathon / Has a dog / Can tell you how to make a paper mache model