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Around the World Bingo
Around the World is a free bingo game of 48 squares from every continent: famous landmarks, natural wonders, and festivals and traditions that people celebrate today. Every square has a fun fact, so each game is a small trip around the globe.
How to play
With printed cards
- Print as many cards as you need (up to 30) and the caller sheet. Every card is different.
- The caller reads the squares from the caller sheet, one at a time, and ticks each one. Read the fun fact too, if you like.
- Players mark a square when it is called. Coins, cereal, buttons or a crayon all work. The star in the middle is free.
- The first player to fill a whole row, column or diagonal shouts "Bingo!" The caller checks that line against the ticks on the caller sheet.
Ways to win
- Any line: a full row, column or diagonal. Quick games of about ten minutes.
- Four corners: the four corner squares.
- Blackout: every square on the card. Longer games, good for a big group.
With a TV and phones
- Open this set on a TV or laptop and pick how to win and how fast to call.
- Players go to roomfulbingo.com/join on their phones (or scan the QR code) and type the four-letter room code. Each phone gets its own card.
- The TV calls each square with its fun fact (it can read them aloud, too). Players tap a square to mark it.
- When a card has a winning line, its BINGO button lights up. The game checks it against the calls and shows the winner on the TV.
Printed cards and phones can play together: when someone shouts "Bingo!" on paper, the host types the card number and the TV checks it. It works the same way as Roomful Trivia: no app and no accounts.
All 48 squares, with fun facts
- Great Wall of ChinaThe Great Wall was built and rebuilt over about 2,000 years, and its parts stretch more than 12,000 miles (20,000 kilometers).
- Taj MahalThe Taj Mahal's white marble is decorated with flowers made of inlaid precious and semi-precious stones.
- Angkor WatAngkor Wat is one of many temples at Angkor, a site of about 150 square miles (400 square kilometers) with old canals.
- Mount FujiPilgrims who climbed Mount Fuji walked around the crater at the top, a practice called ohachimeguri, or 'going around the bowl'.
- Mount EverestIn Nepal, Mount Everest is called Sagarmatha, and snow leopards and red pandas live in the national park around it.
- PetraPetra's builders made channels, tunnels, dams and cisterns to catch and save the seasonal rains in their dry land.
- DiwaliDiwali lasts five days, and many families decorate their floors with rangoli, designs made of colored rice, sand or flower petals.
- HoliHoli is a spring festival held on the full-moon day of Phalguna, and it ends with visits to friends, teachers and relatives.
- Cherry BlossomsIn 1912, the people of Japan gave 3,020 cherry trees to Washington, D.C., as a gift of friendship.
- SongkranSongkran comes in mid-April after the rice harvest, when families get together and honor older adults and ancestors.
- Mid-Autumn FestivalThe Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, when the moon is at its fullest and people light lanterns.
- Pyramids of GizaThe Great Pyramid was built from about 2.3 million stone blocks and was once covered in smooth white limestone.
- Sahara DesertThe name Sahara comes from an Arabic word meaning desert, and it stretches about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) east to west.
- Victoria FallsVictoria Falls is more than a mile (1,708 meters) wide, and its misty spray keeps a small rainforest growing beside it.
- Nile RiverAncient Egyptians called the Nile Ar or Aur, meaning black, after the dark mud the river carried when it flooded.
- Mount KilimanjaroKilimanjaro has three volcanic peaks, Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira, and five plant zones from its lower slopes to its summit.
- SerengetiEvery year over a million wildebeest, with zebras and gazelles, travel a 600-mile (1,000-kilometer) loop across the Serengeti.
- Kente ClothKente is made by sewing together narrow strips of handwoven cloth, and its patterns often have names based on proverbs.
- Eiffel TowerThe Eiffel Tower gets repainted about every 7 years, with about 66 tons (60 metric tons) of paint each time.
- ColosseumThe Colosseum got its name from a colossal statue that once stood nearby.
- Leaning Tower of PisaTo try to straighten the Leaning Tower, its builders made the upper floors bend slightly the opposite way.
- StonehengeOn Midsummer's Day, from the middle of Stonehenge, you would see the sun rise just to the left of the Heel Stone.
- AcropolisThe Acropolis is a steep, rocky hill with a nearly flat top, and walls have ringed its summit for more than 3,300 years.
- Big BenBig Ben's Great Bell weighs about 15 tons (13.7 metric tons) and rings the note E when its hammer strikes.
- Venice CanalsVenice is spread across 118 small islands, linked by canals that are the busy pathways of a city on water.
- FlamencoFlamenco blends song, dance and guitar, and performers may add castanets, hand-clapping and foot-stamping.
- Highland GamesMore than 60 Highland games take place across Scotland every summer, often with Highland dancing and pipe bands.
- Statue of LibertyThe Statue of Liberty's copper skin is only about as thick as two pennies placed together.
- Grand CanyonThe Grand Canyon averages about 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) deep and is up to 18 miles (29 kilometers) wide from rim to rim.
- Niagara FallsNiagara Falls is really three waterfalls: the American Falls, the Bridal Veil Falls and the Horseshoe Falls.
- Golden Gate BridgeThe Golden Gate Bridge's color is called International Orange, picked to blend with the hills and stand out against sea and sky.
- Chichén ItzáChichén Itzá's round El Caracol was an observatory for the stars, named for its spiral staircase.
- PowwowMost powwows open with the Grand Entry, and singers gather around a drum that sets the beat for each dance.
- HulaHula is built on words, and the dancer's movements help tell the story, traditionally to the beat of a gourd drum called the ipu heke.
- Machu PicchuMachu Picchu has about 200 stone structures set on a steep mountain ridge crisscrossed by stone terraces.
- Christ the RedeemerChrist the Redeemer is covered in a mosaic of thousands of triangular soapstone tiles.
- Amazon RainforestThe Amazon Rainforest holds several million kinds of insects, plants, birds and other life, and many are not yet recorded by science.
- Iguazu FallsThe Iguazu River's name comes from an Indigenous word meaning great water, and it drops about 260 feet (80 meters) in many cascades.
- Galápagos IslandsThe Galápagos Islands lie about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) out in the Pacific, home to giant tortoises, marine iguanas and penguins.
- CarnivalDuring the four days before Lent, the Carnival of Barranquilla in Colombia brings cumbia music, floats and animal masks.
- Inti RaymiInti Raymi, the Sun Festival, is held every June 24, and actors dressed as Inca priests and nobles open the ceremony.
- Sydney Opera HouseMore than 1 million tiles cover the roof of the Sydney Opera House.
- UluruUluru's traditional owners are the Anangu, who say Uluru and nearby Kata Tjuta were formed and shaped by their creation ancestors.
- Great Barrier ReefThe Great Barrier Reef has some 2,500 reefs and over 900 islands, home to about 400 kinds of coral and 1,500 kinds of fish.
- Moai StatuesRapa Nui's moai statues represent ancestors, and most were carved from volcanic rock using picks made of hard basalt.
- HakaHaka is a Māori posture dance with a chant, performed by men and women at welcomes, birthdays, weddings and other big events.
- AntarcticaAntarctica's ice sheets are up to two miles (3 kilometers) thick and hold roughly 70% of the world's fresh water.
- South PoleThe ice at the South Pole slides about 30 feet (9 meters) a year, so a new marker designed by the winter crew goes up each New Year.
Print the cards
Cards print two to a US Letter page, each with its own card number in the corner, plus a one-page caller sheet that lists the squares in a random calling order. Everything is made in your browser: nothing to sign up for, nothing sent anywhere.