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Food Bingo

Foods We Love is a free bingo game of 48 foods, from breakfast and lunchbox favorites to fruits, vegetables and dishes from around the world. Every square has a picture and a fun fact about where the food comes from or how it is made.

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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

PancakesIn Olney, England, women run a race while tossing pancakes in frying pans, and Liberal, Kansas, runs the same race at the same time.
WafflesNational Waffle Day, August 24, marks the day in 1869 when a New York man got a US patent for a waffle iron.
Scrambled EggsShell color doesn't change an egg's quality, but brown eggs are often bigger because of the breed of hen that lays them.
BaconBacon is made in many countries, and in Germany it's called speck, while in Spain it's called tocino.
CerealOne of the first breakfast cereals, made in 1863, was so hard that people had to soak it in milk overnight.
BagelOne historian traces bagels back to Jewish bakers in the 1200s, in a part of Eastern Europe that is now Poland.
CroissantBakers fold croissant dough with butter to make dozens of layers, and steam from the butter lifts them up while baking.
PizzaIn 2017, astronauts on the International Space Station made their own pizzas and called them flying saucers you can eat.
HamburgerNo one knows for sure where the hamburger began, but German immigrants who came to America in the 1800s probably brought it along.
Hot DogIn 1939, the King and Queen of Britain were served hot dogs at a picnic with President Franklin Roosevelt in New York.
French FriesThe city of Bruges, Belgium, has a whole museum about fries that traces them back to potatoes from the Andes.
SandwichSandwiches are named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich in England, but people made them long before he was born.
Grilled CheeseBack in the 1940s, grilled cheese was a popular meal that people ate when meat was not available.
Mac and CheeseBaked pasta with cheese was already a popular dish in France when Thomas Jefferson traveled there in 1784.
SpaghettiThe word spaghetti comes from Italian and means little strings, which matches its long, thin shape.
SoupSome of the first restaurants in Paris served soothing soups, and those soups were also called restaurants.
PopcornSome movie theaters once banned popcorn, but it became a favorite theater snack during the Great Depression.
PretzelAmerica's first commercial pretzel bakery opened in 1861 in Lititz, Pennsylvania, and visitors can still tour it.
Ice CreamGeorge Washington bought a 'cream machine for ice' in 1784, the first record of ice cream at his home, Mount Vernon.
CupcakePhiladelphia writer Eliza Leslie was the first to call a small cake a 'cup cake,' in her baking book from 1828.
DoughnutNational Doughnut Day began in Chicago in 1938 to honor the helpers called Lassies who served doughnuts to soldiers in World War I.
HoneyHoneybees visit about 2 million flowers to make just one pound (450 grams) of honey.
Peanut ButterPeanuts grow underground, because after a peanut flower is pollinated, a stalk called a peg pushes down into the soil.
ChocolateChocolate is made from cacao seeds, and each football-shaped cacao pod holds 30 to 50 of them.
BananaA banana plant is not really a tree but a giant herb, and its trunk can bend without breaking.
StrawberryStrawberries belong to the rose family, and they grow in every state in the US.
WatermelonScientists found that the watermelon's closest wild relative is the Kordofan melon from Sudan, which has white, sweet flesh.
GrapesGrapes grow on woody vines in bunches that can hold anywhere from a couple dozen to hundreds of grapes.
PineapplePineapples are cousins of Spanish moss, and you can plant a pineapple's leafy top to grow a whole new plant.
MangoMangoes belong to the cashew family, and in India their history goes back more than 6,000 years.
BlueberriesBig farm blueberries were first bred from wild bushes in New Jersey, and their first harvest was sold in 1916.
LemonLemons came from a cross between two other citrus fruits, the sour orange and the citron.
AvocadoAvocados don't ripen on the tree, so they only start to soften after they are picked.
CarrotThe part of a carrot we eat is a big root called a taproot, and the leafy green tops can be eaten too.
BroccoliA head of broccoli is made of tiny flower buds, and if it isn't picked in time, it turns into yellow flowers.
TomatoThe word tomato comes from tomatl, a word in the Aztec language Nahuatl that means something round and plump.
SushiBefore refrigerators, the oldest kind of sushi was a clever way to keep fish good to eat all year long.
TacosOne historian's theory is that tacos began in the 1700s in the silver mines of Mexico.
DumplingsIn northern China, families make dumplings together at New Year, shaped like gold or silver ingots that stand for wealth.
RamenIn chilly Hokkaido, Japan, people added rich miso to their ramen to warm up, and many regions have their own style.
Curry and RiceThe word curry comes from kari, a Tamil word for a sauce or soup eaten with rice.
FalafelIn Egypt, falafel is usually made from fava beans and called taameya, while many other places use chickpeas.
PaellaThe word paella means pan, and it comes from patella, a Latin word for a small pan.
TamalesMaking Christmas Eve tamales became a get-together called a tamalada, as women across Mexico and the Southwest gathered to cook.
FondueA favorite Swiss fondue is called moitié-moitié, which means half-half, because it mixes two cheeses equally.
Jollof RiceJollof rice is a celebration dish across West Africa, and countries share a friendly rivalry over whose is best.
Pita BreadWhen pita bakes in a very hot oven, steam gets trapped inside and pushes the two layers apart to make a pocket.
InjeraInjera is a spongy flatbread made from teff, the smallest known grain in the world, first grown in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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.