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BINGO Instructions

PREDETERMINED PATTERNS

Description Example

BLACKOUT BINGO

All images must be marked to get a BINGO

This is the most common way to play BINGO

This is how we usually play 3x3 grids

LINES BINGO

Must make a horizontal, diagonal OR vertical line to get a BINGO

This is how we usually play 4x4 or 5x5 grids

or

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T's BINGO

Fill the card in the shape of a right-side up, upside down or sideways capital T.  For example... fill the center column plus the top row.

We use this pattern during our daugher Tasha's birthday.  We call it Tasha BINGO.   You could use the same idea at Thanksgiving and call it "Turkey" BINGO...

or 

U's BINGO

Fill the card in the shape of a right-side up, upside down or sideways U.   For example... fill the left and right most columns and the top row.

or

SQUARES BINGO

Fill the card in the shape of a square  (top, left, right and bottom).


When we're playing the game with a number of kids, we play all the variations at once. 

We have a small prize for each 'combination' (a prize for lines, a prize for T's, a prize for U's, a prize for squares and a prize for Blackouts... if we have more than 5 children, we'll do a separate prize for a vertical line, a diagonal line, a horizontal line, a right-side up U, an upside down U, etc, etc). 

We have a rule that a person can only win one prize. The game ends when everyone has won something. If two children win the same prize at the same time, we draw straws or 'guess which number I'm thinking' or play 'rock paper scissors' to see who wins the prize and who keeps playing for the next prize. 

  

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