Blank bingo cards
Empty grids to print and fill in by hand — the version where every player writes their own squares from a list on the board.
The cards
Blank card 1 B I N G O FREE Blank card 2 B I N G O FREE
Six more blank formats
The pair above is the default: 5 × 5 with a free centre, the size everyone recognises. What follows are six more blank grids, and each one is a genuinely different printable rather than the same card relabelled — every table below is the real output of the tool above it, not an illustration of one. Set the matching option and print.
3 × 3, for a card a five-year-old can finish
Nine squares instead of twenty-five. A reception class fills this in well inside the time a 5 × 5 takes, and the game that follows is a handful of calls rather than a slow crawl to a full house. Choose 3 × 3 in "Grid size" above.
Blank card — 3 × 3 B I N FREE
4 × 4, with no free square
An even grid has no true centre — four squares sit equally close to the middle, and picking one of them for a free space would be a guess, not a rule. So a 4 × 4 card drops the free square rather than placing it arbitrarily: all sixteen squares get written in and marked, and nobody starts with a head start.
Blank card — 4 × 4 B I N G
6 × 6, for a longer game
Thirty-six squares suits a group that wants the writing-in stage to take longer, or a spotting card meant to last a whole car journey rather than one sitting. Choose 6 × 6 above — it is the largest grid this page offers, because a card much bigger than that stops being legible on a sheet of paper long before it stops being technically possible to draw.
Blank card — 6 × 6 B I N G O P
5 × 5 with the free centre turned off
Untick "Free centre square" and a 5 × 5 card needs all twenty-five squares written in — the version a scavenger hunt or an all-day spotting card wants, where nothing is pre-filled and nothing is marked before it has actually been found.
Blank card — 5 × 5, no free square B I N G O
Large print
Tick "Large print" above and every card drops to fewer, bigger squares with the header and each cell enlarged on the page as well as on paper — built for a care-home activities table or anyone reading the card from across a room, not for a small hand with a pencil. It works at any grid size; shown here at 4 × 4.
Blank card — 4 × 4, large print B I N G
Four to a sheet
Set "Cards per page" to 4 above and cut lines appear automatically, so one sheet becomes four cards with a dashed line showing exactly where to cut. A shower of twenty guests is five sheets instead of twenty.
Blank card — 1 of 4 B I N G O FREE Blank card — 2 of 4 B I N G O FREE Blank card — 3 of 4 B I N G O FREE Blank card — 4 of 4 B I N G O FREE
When a blank card is the right one
Two situations. In a classroom, writing the words is the exercise: a child who has written "because" into a square has read it, spelled it and looked at it for longer than a pre-printed card would ever have made them. The game afterwards is almost a bonus.
At a party, filling in your own card is the ten minutes at the start where everybody talks. Baby shower gift bingo is nearly always played this way — guests write down what they think will be unwrapped, which is a guessing game before it is a bingo game.
For everything else, pre-printed cards are better: they start immediately and nobody can accidentally write the same square twice.
What prints
A grid with a header row and squares large enough to write in with a normal pen. Nothing else — no header, no navigation, no advertisement, no URL across the top of the page.
The free centre square is marked FREE where the grid has a centre. On an even grid there is no centre square, so the option is dropped rather than the square being put somewhere arbitrary.
Print a few more than you need. A blank card that has been filled in wrongly is a card that has to be thrown away, and that happens more often than you would expect.
Common questions
How do I print blank bingo cards?
Choose a grid size and how many you want, then print. The print stylesheet removes everything except the grids themselves, so nothing is wasted on page furniture.
What size are blank bingo cards?
Five by five is standard. Three by three and four by four are here as well, and both are better for younger children — a smaller grid finishes faster, which matters when the game has to fit a lesson.
Should blank cards have a free space?
Keep it for a called game, where it gives everybody the same start. Drop it for a spotting game played over a whole day or journey, where marks accumulate anyway and a free square makes a line too easy.
Are there other blank card formats?
Six more are shown on this page below the default 5×5 pair: 3×3 and 4×4 for younger children, 6×6 for a longer game, a 5×5 with no free square for a card that has to be filled in completely, a large-print version, and a four-to-a-sheet layout with cut lines. Every one comes from the same options panel above the cards — nothing here is a separate page or a separate tool.