African Safari Bingo Card Generator

About African Safari bingo

All 42 African Safari bingo words

Every entry from Aardvark to Wildebeest, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop Dik-dik if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• A: Aardvark, Acacia tree, African elephant 🐘, African wild dog
• B: Banded mongoose, Baobab tree, Binoculars, Black rhino 🦏
• C: Cape buffalo 🐃, Caracal, Cheetah
• D: Dik-dik
• E: Eland
• G: Giraffe 🦒, Great Migration, Greater kudu, Grey crowned crane
• H: Hippopotamus 🦛, Honey badger
• I: Impala
• J: Jackal
• L: Leopard 🐆, Lion 🦁
• M: Marabou stork
• N: Nile crocodile 🐊
• O: Olive baboon, Ostrich
• P: Park ranger, Plains zebra 🦓
• S: Safari vehicle, Savanna, Secretary bird, Serval, Spotted hyena, Sunrise game drive
• T: Termite mound, Thomson's gazelle, Topi
• V: Vervet monkey
• W: Warthog, Watering hole, Wildebeest

African Safari bingo at a glance

How long African Safari bingo lasts

Simulated over 150 shuffled games on cards 1-60 of this set: the median first line arrives on call 12 with 30 players and on call 15 with 10, while a blackout takes 38 calls, roughly 6 minutes at 10 seconds a call.

How to host African Safari bingo

1. 1

   Print the African Safari cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Termite mound, Olive baboon, Vervet monkey, Dik-dik and Black rhino.

2. 2

   Print the caller sheet

   All 42 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with Thomson's gazelle, Sunrise game drive, Serval, Binoculars and African wild dog; tick each one as you read it out.

3. 3

   Explain the 'Big Five' before you start (Lion, Leopard, African elephant, Cape buffalo, Black rhino) and give a small cheer whenever one is called.

4. 4

   Use it on a real safari or a zoo visit: Binoculars, Park ranger and Safari vehicle squares let travelers mark the trip itself, not only the animals.

5. 5

   Ask older players to sort calls into hunters and grazers, so Cheetah and Jackal go one way and Impala, Topi and Wildebeest go the other.

6. 6

   Call until someone shouts bingo

   With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 12 (Grey crowned crane in this set's order) and a blackout near call 38; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.

African Safari bingo variations

• African Safari variation

  Big Five round: a normal line does not win; a player must also mark at least three of Lion, Leopard, African elephant, Cape buffalo and Black rhino somewhere on the card.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 squares, Termite mound to Lion; on average one card fills after 41.3 of the 42 calls (98% of the deck).

• Picture bingo for pre-readers

  Use 3x3 cards with the 9 entries that have a symbol, such as Lion, African elephant and Giraffe.

First 15 calls of this African Safari set

Seed "african-safari" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 19 of the first 30 completes the diagonal from the top left (African wild dog, Ostrich, Serval and Savanna) on call 9, and card 10 is the first full card on call 39.

Themes like African Safari bingo

Zoo Animals bingo is the closest list: it shares 3 entries with this one, such as Lion and Giraffe. For a longer game, paste both lists into the Edit words box; duplicates are removed automatically.