Bingo maker
Card 1
Every card is different and carries its number, so the caller can check a win without seeing the card.
Themes — one tap swaps the words and colours
One link, a different card on every phone
Send this link to the group chat or paste it into the meeting. Each phone that opens it deals its own card and shows its card number. Nobody signs in, and no names are collected.
Share this word list in the template gallery
- 1Send the link. Everyone opens it on their phone.
- 2Open here, and share this screen or put it on the TV.
- 3Players tap squares as they are called. A winner reads out their card number; you check it.
Press Next to make the first call
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Last calls
Called so far
No ads on the caller. Space bar makes the next call. The screen stays awake while a round is running.
Virtual bingo for Zoom and Teams: one link, a card on every phone
Share one link in the chat. Every player gets a different card on their own phone, taps to mark it, and you run the calls from your screen share.
Video Call Bingo pack
The tool above is free and always will be. If you would rather not set a game up yourself, this pack is already done: print it, cut it, play.
- 40 different 5×5 cards, each with its own number
- 38 calling cards to cut out and draw from a bowl
- A caller's checklist to tick as you go
- How to play, with five winning patterns
- Two blank cards and six winner slips
- A QR code that turns any phone or TV into the caller
$3.99
One payment · instant download · US Letter and A4 PDFs
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The short answer
To play bingo on Zoom or Teams, make the game here, send players the Play on phones link, and share your screen with the caller open. Each player's phone deals its own card and shows its card number. When someone calls bingo, type their number into Check a card and the win is confirmed on screen for everyone.
From list to a game in four steps
Step 1: Make the game
Pick a theme — the video call pack is a good icebreaker — or use numbers for a classic game.
Step 2: Send the player link
Copy it into the meeting chat. Each person who opens it gets their own card on their phone, with a card number.
Step 3: Share the caller
Open Call the game and share that tab. It calls at random and reads each call aloud, so everyone hears it.
Step 4: Check wins by number
When someone claims bingo, type their card number. The caller rebuilds their card and shows what they matched.
Winning patterns, from quickest to longest
Standard US bingo uses 75 balls on a 5×5 card with a free centre; UK bingo and Tambola use 90. Pick the pattern before the first call.
| Pattern | What completes it | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Line | Five in a row across, down or corner to corner. The free square counts. | The standard first prize, and the fastest game |
| Four corners | The four corner squares, nothing else. | A quick extra round, or a small prize |
| Two lines | Any two complete lines on the same card. | A second prize after the first line is won |
| X | Both diagonals, which cross at the free square. | A mid-length game |
| Blackout | Every square on the card. Also called a coverall or full card. | The last and biggest prize of the night |
Calls until the first winner
Measured, not guessed: these are the median results of 200 games per row, dealt by the same engine that makes your cards, with every card checked after each call.
| Words in the list | First line | Blackout |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | 8 calls | 24 calls |
| 30 | 10 calls | 29 calls |
| 40 | 13 calls | 37 calls |
| 60 | 18 calls | 54 calls |
| Players | First line | Blackout |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 24 calls | 69 calls |
| 20 | 22 calls | 68 calls |
| 30 | 20 calls | 67 calls |
| 50 | 18 calls | 66 calls |
A longer word list makes a longer game: with only 24 words every card holds the same words, and the first line falls after about 8 calls. At one call every ten seconds, a 75-ball blackout takes around 11 minutes.
38 video call bingo words
The list the cards above are drawn from, to copy or print. Edit it in the maker and your cards change with it.
- 1You're on mute
- 2Can you hear me?
- 3Frozen screen
- 4Dog barking
- 5Child appears
- 6Cat on keyboard
- 7Wrong screen shared
- 8Echo
- 9Someone's eating
- 10Late joiner
- 11Can you see my screen?
- 12Blurred background
- 13Doorbell
- 14Just a sec
- 15Hello? Hello?
- 16Talking over each other
- 17Camera off
- 18Awkward silence
- 19Bad lighting
- 20Sorry, go ahead
- 21Leaves by accident
- 22I have a hard stop
- 23Next slide please
- 24Background noise
- 25Lagging
- 26Drops off the call
- 27Chat message ignored
- 28Pyjama bottoms
- 29Coffee mug
- 30Headphones
- 31Tab switching
- 32Reaction emoji
- 33Can we record this?
- 34Wave goodbye
- 35Runs over time
- 36Wi-Fi trouble
- 37Virtual background glitch
- 38Phone rings
Four things worth knowing
Share the tab, not the whole screen
Sharing just the caller tab keeps notifications and other windows off everyone's screen, and in most video apps it also shares the tab's audio so the voice calls come through.
Players use a second device
The card is easiest on a phone held beside the laptop, so the video call stays full-size. It also works in a second browser tab.
Slow the auto-caller down
Video adds a second or two of delay. Eight to twelve seconds a call gives everyone time to hear, find and tap.
Ask winners to hold up their phone too
The number check is the proof, but seeing the card on camera makes the moment for everyone else on the call.
No accounts, no player data
Cards and the PDF are made by your own browser. Phone play works without a server at all: the game travels in the link after the # mark, which browsers never send anywhere, and each phone deals its own card from the game number. The caller checks a win by dealing the same card again from its number. There is no list of players, because there is nowhere for one to be kept.
- No sign-up for the host or the players
- No names collected, ever
- Your word list never leaves the device
- No ads on the caller or on players' cards
- No ads printed on the PDF
Questions people ask
Anything we've missed?
How do I host bingo on Zoom?
Make a game here, paste the Play on phones link into the Zoom chat, and share your screen with the caller open. Players mark their cards on their phones, and you confirm wins by typing their card number.
Do players need an account or an app?
No. The link opens in any phone browser. There is nothing to install and no one enters a name or email.
Can two players get the same card?
Each phone picks a card number between 1000 and 9999, so two players landing on the same card is unlikely but possible in a large game. If a number appears twice, the second player can tap New card.
Is it really free?
Yes. Every theme, any number of cards up to 500 at a time, the caller screen and phone play are free, with no account. The pages carry ads; the printed cards, the caller screen and the players' phone cards never do.
Are the cards actually different from each other?
Yes. Each card in a game is checked against every card before it, and a repeat is thrown away and redrawn, so no two card numbers in one game carry the same squares in the same places. With a small word list the cards will still share many words — they simply sit in different places.
How do I check a winner?
Every card is printed with a card number and a game number. On the caller screen, type the card number into Check a card: it rebuilds that card from the game number, marks what has been called, and names any line, corners or blackout it has completed. You never need to collect the card.
Does anything get uploaded?
No. The cards and the PDF are made in your browser. Phone play works by putting the game in the link itself, after the # mark, which browsers do not send to any server. There are no accounts and no player names.
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