Family Reunion Bingo Printable: 96 Squares Your Relatives Sign: how it works
This family reunion bingo printable is a find-a-relative game: 96 squares about names, the family tree, family history and reunion days. Press New set of 4 cards and each card draws 24 around a free center marked FAMILY. Relatives sign the square that fits them.
How the family reunion bingo game works
Leave cards and pens at the welcome table. Players ask the questions and collect a signature in each square from a relative it fits. Each relative signs a card once, and nobody signs their own. First full row, column or diagonal wins, and the free center counts. For a longer game, play on to a full card.
Family reunion bingo cards with your name, year and squares
Type the reunion's name and year into Title on the cards and the surname into Text of the free square. Add one line per square to Word list, one per line: was born in Dayton, has made Grandma's peach cobbler. For the youngest cousins, keep only the first 24 lines, the quick finds, and switch Grid to 4 × 4, which has no free square. Every group is 24 lines, enough to fill a 5 × 5 card alone.
Tips
Printable family reunion bingo runs on pens. Put a cup of them beside the stack, and set How many cards to the head count plus five.
Seat the grandparents near the cards: squares such as keeps the family tree and has a photo from before 1950 send players their way.
Family reunion bingo games work best before the meal, while households still stand in their own clumps: the card sends a teenager to talk to a great-aunt.
Questions and answers
How many squares can one relative sign?
One per card. A line through the free center then takes four different relatives and any other line takes five, so nobody wins without leaving their own table. With fewer than 15 people, allow two signatures each.
What is a second cousin, and what does once removed mean?
First cousins share a grandparent, second cousins a great-grandparent and third cousins a great-great-grandparent. FamilySearch gives the shortcut: count the greats in the shared ancestor's title and add one. Removed counts generations between you: your first cousin's child is your first cousin once removed, and so is your parent's first cousin.
How many cards can I print for a big reunion?
Up to 60 in one set, no two alike, at one, two or four to a page; one to a page leaves the most room to sign. Past 60 players, print the set twice. It is a family reunion bingo game printable at home on plain paper, and Share these cards opens the same set on any phone.
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Is someone you met todayA relative you had never met before this reunion.
Is the oldest sibling
Is the youngest sibling
Is wearing the reunion T-shirtA shirt from an earlier year counts.
Is your cousinFirst, second or removed: any cousin counts.
Knew you when you were a baby
Knows everyone at their tableTest them: point at two people.
Knows your middle nameThey have to say it without a hint.
Lives in a different time zone
Lives in your town
Rode here in a full carEvery seat taken.
Shares a grandparent with youFirst cousins share a grandparent, so they count. So do your brothers and sisters.
Shares your last name
Names and the family tree 24
Can explain how you're relatedIn one breath, without a chart.
Can name a great-grandparentA first name is enough.
Can name all the cousinsTheir own first cousins, out loud, with no help from the crowd.
Goes by their middle name
Has 10 or more first cousins
Has 3 generations here todaySuch as a grandparent, a parent and a child, all at this reunion.
Has a family-only nicknameAsk where it came from.
Has a name twin at the reunionSomeone else here has the same first name.
Has a niece or nephew here
Has a sibling here today
Has all their siblings here
Has met every first cousin
Has two middle names
Is a cousin once removedOnce removed means one generation apart: your first cousin's child, or your parent's first cousin.
Is a great-aunt or great-uncleThe sister or brother of somebody's grandparent. Some families say grandaunt and granduncle.
Is a Junior, a II or a IIIThe suffix counts even if they never use it.
Is a second cousin to youSecond cousins share a great-grandparent. Count the greats in the shared ancestor's title and add one.
Is a third cousin to youThird cousins share a great-great-grandparent: two greats, plus one.
Is one of 4 or more siblings
Is the oldest grandchildOf any set of grandparents in the family.
Knows the story of their name
Shares your middle name
Spells the surname differentlyA dropped letter or a changed ending counts.
Was named after a relativeAsk which one.
Roots and family history 24
Cooks a grandparent's recipe
Does the same work as a parent
Grew up in the family hometown
Has a family heirloom at homeAsk what it is and whose it was.
Has a grandparent storyAsk for the short version.
Has a photo from before 1950A family photo, in a frame or in a box.
Has a quilt a relative madeA blanket or an afghan counts.
Has interviewed a grandparentOn tape, on video or with a notebook.
Has kept a relative's letters
Has old family home movies
Has seen the old family homeThe house, farm or apartment the older relatives grew up in.
Has the family photo albums
Has traced 5+ generations back
Keeps the family treeOn paper, in a binder or on a computer.
Knows a family saying by heartThe one somebody always says. Ask to hear it.
Knows an ancestor's tradeWhat a great-grandparent, or someone further back, did for a living.
Knows what the surname meansMany English surnames began as a job (Baker), a place (Hill), a father's name or a description (Short).
Owns a handwritten recipe cardIn a relative's own handwriting.
Sings a song a relative sang
Still lives in the hometown
Uses a relative's old toolsA cast-iron pan counts.
Was born in another state
Went to a parent's old school
Wrote names on the old photos
Growing up and reunion days 24
Babysat someone who is here
Brought a family-recipe dishAsk whose recipe it is.
Has been on vacation with you
Has been to every reunion
Has planned a reunion
Has won a reunion game before
Hosts a family holiday dinner
Is on the cleanup crew today
Keeps the family address list
Knows the secret ingredientThey do not have to tell you what it is.
Learned to cook from family
Learned to fish from family
Made something for the reunionA banner, a slideshow, name tags, a cake.
Once got lost on a family trip
Played on a team with a cousin
Shared a bedroom growing up
Slept over at a grandparent's
Still sits at the kids' table
Taught a cousin to ride a bike
Tells the best family storiesTwo other relatives have to agree.
Took a long family car trip
Was babysat by someone hereAsk who the sitter was.
Was in the last group photo
Went to school with a cousin
How this list was compiled: Own work by the editors: 96 find-a-relative squares written for a family reunion, 24 in each of four groups, so that any one group alone fills a 5 x 5 card with a free center. Every square is about kinship, names, family history or the reunion day itself, and none repeats a square of the site's human bingo list, which asks strangers about hobbies, travel and jobs. Squares ask for kinship roles (grandparent, great-aunt, oldest sibling) and never for an age, a weight, money, a marriage or a family quarrel; nothing here asks about looks, religion or DNA tests, and nothing asks for the usual answers to account security questions (a mother's maiden name, a first pet, a childhood street). The cousin lines were checked on 2026-09-19 against https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/what-is-a-second-cousin (first cousins share a grandparent, second cousins a great-grandparent, third cousins a great-great-grandparent; once removed means separated by one generation; a first cousin once removed is the child of your first cousin or the parent of your second cousin; your parents' first cousins are your first cousins once removed) and https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/cousin-chart (count the greats in the common ancestor's title and add 1). Great-aunt (the sister of one's grandparent, also grandaunt) was checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt and great-uncle (the brother of one's grandparent, also granduncle) against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle on 2026-09-19. The surname line (occupational names such as Baker, place names such as Hill, patronymics, descriptive names such as Short) was checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname on 2026-09-19. Every other line beside a square is the editors' what-counts rule, not a fact. Win rules on the page were checked against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo_(American_version) on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work