Tap a square to mark it. Everyone who opens your share link gets this same set of cards.
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118 words in the bag
Every word is called once, in random order.
Playing with 118 words. The game is kept in this browser until you start a new one.
Called so far 0
Nothing called yet. Each call is listed here so a winning card can be checked.
Halloween Bingo Game: Cards to Print, Call and Mark: how it works
This Halloween bingo game opens with four cards already dealt from 118 squares, no two alike: monsters, costumes and candy, haunted-house props, old traditions and the small disasters of every costume party. Print one card per player or send the link to phones, then switch to Call the game and the page draws every square once.
A called game from the 84 Halloween bingo words
The first four groups are words a caller can read out: Cauldron, Werewolf, Candy swap, Guising. To play with those alone, copy the 84 from the list below, press Empty the list, paste them into Word list, one per line and set How many cards. The called list sorts A to Z, which makes checking a winner quick.
Halloween bingo for adults: the party moments card
The fifth group has 34 party moments, and nobody calls them. Paste that group alone into the word list and print a card for each guest. A guest marks a square on seeing it happen: two guests in the same costume, a mask off in the first hour, a fog machine that trips the alarm. House rule: a second guest must have seen it too. Each card holds 24 of the 34, so the first line is a race.
Tips
Mark paper cards with candy corn in place of pens. Squares stay readable for the next round, and the winner eats the markers.
For players under seven, pick the 3 × 3 grid and delete Coffin, Tombstone, Skull, Zombie and Ghoul from the word list.
As a Halloween bingo card generator for your own block, the list takes any line you type: the porch with full-size bars, the neighbor dressed as a scarecrow.
Questions and answers
How long does one game take?
In our simulated games ten players needed about 40 calls for a first line from all 118 squares and about 28 from the 84 words. At four calls a minute that is seven to ten minutes, so a class period fits three rounds: a line, then four corners, then blackout.
Why are there no sugar skulls or marigolds on the list?
They belong to the Day of the Dead, a Mexican holiday kept on November 1 and 2, when families gather to remember relatives who have died. It is a separate tradition, not a second Halloween, so its symbols were left off a spooky word list.
What are the clue lines in the list for?
Many squares carry a checked fact: jack-o'-lanterns were carved from turnips before pumpkins, candy corn was first sold as Chicken Feed, and in the 1818 novel Frankenstein is the scientist, not the creature. Read the fact as the call and let the table guess.