Irregular Verbs Bingo Card Generator
Irregular Verbs bingo cards in seconds: 54 ready-made entries (Bring / brought, Drink / drank and Drive / drove among them), 24 on each 5x5 card with a free center, up to 30 unique cards free. With 30 players the first line usually comes after about 15 calls, roughly 3 minutes at 10 seconds a call.
| B | I | N | G | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Fall / fell | Fight / fought | Win / won | Read / read | Hide / hid |
Say / said | Write / wrote | Take / took | Eat / ate | Blow / blew |
Tell / told | Catch / caught | FREE | Cut / cut | Speak / spoke |
Lose / lost | Meet / met | Forget / forgot | Know / knew | Ring / rang |
Leave / left | Swim / swam | Sit / sat | Think / thought | Drive / drove |
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Edit words (54)
Cards update as you type. Long entries shrink to fit their square; a very long single word is split over two lines with a hyphen (up to 40 characters each). The PDF uses a built-in font: emoji and non-Latin scripts print best with Print cards.
Caller sheet
Every call in a shuffled order. Tick each one as you read it out; the same share link always gives the same order.
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About Irregular Verbs bingo
Irregular Verbs Bingo pairs each base form with its simple past, so every square is a mini flashcard: “Bring / brought”, “Teach / taught”, “Swim / swam”, “Freeze / froze” and “Hold / held”. It covers the high-frequency irregular verbs ESL learners and young writers trip over, including sneaky ones like “Cut / cut” and “Read / read”, which keep their spelling but not always their sound.
This Irregular Verbs list is 54 entries long and a 5x5 card with a free center takes 24, which leaves 30 off each card. That is why one entry (See / saw, say) appears on about 13 of 30 cards: card 1, for instance, has no Go / went or See / saw.
The caller reads the 54 entries from a shuffled caller sheet and players mark them; the first complete line (row, column or diagonal) wins.
All 54 Irregular Verbs bingo words
Every entry from Begin / began to Write / wrote, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop Drink / drank if it does not suit your group, or add your own.
- B: Begin / began, Blow / blew, Break / broke, Bring / brought, Buy / bought
- C: Catch / caught, Choose / chose, Come / came, Cut / cut
- D: Draw / drew, Drink / drank, Drive / drove
- E: Eat / ate
- F: Fall / fell, Feel / felt, Fight / fought, Find / found, Fly / flew, Forget / forgot, Freeze / froze
- G: Give / gave, Go / went, Grow / grew
- H: Hide / hid, Hold / held
- K: Keep / kept, Know / knew
- L: Leave / left, Lose / lost
- M: Make / made, Meet / met
- P: Pay / paid
- R: Read / read, Ride / rode, Ring / rang, Run / ran
- S: Say / said, See / saw, Sell / sold, Sing / sang, Sit / sat, Sleep / slept, Speak / spoke, Stand / stood, Steal / stole, Swim / swam
- T: Take / took, Teach / taught, Tell / told, Think / thought, Throw / threw
- W: Wake / woke, Win / won, Write / wrote
Irregular Verbs bingo at a glance
| Entries | 54 words and phrases |
|---|---|
| Card | 5x5 card with a free center: 24 of the 54 |
| How it is played | A caller reads the shuffled caller sheet |
| Different cards possible | about 8.70 × 10³⁸ (order matters) |
| Different selections | about 1.40 × 10¹⁵ sets of 24 entries |
| Shortest entry | Cut / cut (9 characters) |
| Longest entry | Think / thought (15 characters) |
| Multi-word entries | 54 of 54, such as Go / went and Eat / ate |
| Good for | ESL lessons, classrooms, teens and adults |
| Category | Language arts & ESL (61 themes) |
How long Irregular Verbs bingo lasts
Simulated over 150 shuffled games on cards 1-60 of this set: the median first line arrives on call 15 with 30 players and on call 19 with 10, while a blackout takes 48 calls, roughly 8 minutes at 10 seconds a call.
| Players | First line | Line, 80% range | Blackout | Blackout, 80% range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 players | 19 calls | 13-24 | 50 calls | 47-52 |
| 30 players | 15 calls | 11-19 | 48 calls | 46-50 |
| 60 players | 13 calls | 9-17 | 47 calls | 45-49 |
| 1 card (exact average) | - | - | 52.8 calls | of 54 |
How to host Irregular Verbs bingo
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Print the Irregular Verbs cards
Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Fall / fell, Fight / fought, Win / won, Read / read and Hide / hid.
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Print the caller sheet
All 54 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with See / saw, Win / won, Leave / left, Pay / paid and Make / made; tick each one as you read it out.
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Call only the base form, such as bring, and let players find “Bring / brought”; saying the past form aloud before marking turns every call into speaking practice.
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Group the sound patterns on the board as they come up: “Sing / sang” and “Ring / rang” together, “Buy / bought” and “Catch / caught” together.
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Ask the winner to use three verbs from the winning line in one short story about yesterday, which shows whether “Leave / left” and “Fall / fell” really stuck.
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Call until someone shouts bingo
With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 15 (Run / ran in this set's order) and a blackout near call 48; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.
Irregular Verbs bingo variations
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Irregular Verbs variation
Past only bingo: the caller says just the past form, such as stood or kept, and players must work out which base verb it belongs to before marking “Stand / stood” or “Keep / kept”.
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Blackout round
Card 1 needs all 24 squares, Fall / fell to Drive / drove; on average one card fills after 52.8 of the 54 calls (98% of the deck).
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Quick 4x4 round
A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 54 entries and no free space; one card is full after about 51.8 calls instead of 52.8.
First 15 calls of this Irregular Verbs set
Seed "irregular-verbs" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 17 of the first 30 completes the G column (Win / won, Freeze / froze, Leave / left, Fight / fought and Break / broke) on call 16, and card 5 is the first full card on call 48.
| Call | Entry | Cards marked (of 30) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | See / saw | 11 of 30 |
| 2 | Win / won | 12 of 30 |
| 3 | Leave / left | 16 of 30 |
| 4 | Pay / paid | 9 of 30 |
| 5 | Make / made | 16 of 30 |
| 6 | Throw / threw | 10 of 30 |
| 7 | Say / said | 16 of 30 |
| 8 | Catch / caught | 19 of 30 |
| 9 | Sing / sang | 11 of 30 |
| 10 | Go / went | 13 of 30 |
| 11 | Bring / brought | 17 of 30 |
| 12 | Freeze / froze | 12 of 30 |
| 13 | Grow / grew | 10 of 30 |
| 14 | Break / broke | 14 of 30 |
| 15 | Run / ran | 13 of 30 |
Themes like Irregular Verbs bingo
Ranked by category, occasion and audience; none of them repeats an entry from this list, so pasting two into the Edit words box gives a longer game.
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Frequently asked questions
How many words are on the Irregular Verbs bingo list?
54, from Begin / began to Write / wrote. A 5x5 card with a free center uses 24 of them, so each card leaves out 30. The shortest entry is Cut / cut (9 characters) and the longest is Think / thought (15).
Are all Irregular Verbs bingo cards the same?
No. Card 1 and card 2 of this set share 7 of their 24 squares, and every card is checked so none of the 30 in a free set repeats. About 8.70 × 10³⁸ different arrangements are possible from the 54 entries (about 1.40 × 10¹⁵ different selections of 24).
How many Irregular Verbs bingo cards per person?
Usually one. Extra cards speed the game up only a little: on this list a first line took a median 15 calls with 30 cards in play, 13 with 60 (30 players on two cards each) and 19 with just 10. Two cards suit adults who want a faster game; young children do best with one. A free set of 30 covers 15 players on two cards each.
How long does Irregular Verbs bingo take?
An Irregular Verbs game with 30 players usually reaches its first line after 15 calls (11-19 in 80% of simulated games), about 3 minutes at one call every 10 seconds. A blackout takes about 48; with 10 players the first line needs about 19.
Can I print Irregular Verbs bingo cards for free?
Yes. The generator above makes up to 30 cards (5x5 cards with a free center) from the 54 entries; Print cards sends them to your printer and Download PDF saves one card per page, so 30 cards take 30 pages plus the caller sheet. It all runs in your browser with no sign-up.
How do I make my own Irregular Verbs bingo cards?
Open Edit words in the generator above: it already holds the 54 entries, one per line. Replace Drive / drove with something from your own group, add inside jokes or names, and the sample card redraws at once. 5x5 cards need 24 entries or more.
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