Pilgrims and the Mayflower Bingo Card Generator

About Pilgrims and the Mayflower bingo

All 44 Pilgrims and the Mayflower bingo words

Every entry from 102 passengers to William Bradford, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop Mayflower if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• 0-9 and symbols: 102 passengers, 1620 voyage, 41 signers
• A: Alliance of 1621, Atlantic Ocean
• C: Cape Cod, Christopher Jones, Coif, Common house, Corn planting, Cracked main beam
• D: Doublet and breeches
• E: Edward Winslow
• F: First winter, Five deer
• G: Governor
• H: Harvest of 1621
• J: John Carver
• L: Leiden
• M: Massasoit, Mayflower, Mayflower Compact, Myles Standish
• O: Oceanus Hopkins, Of Plymouth Plantation
• P: Patuxet, Peregrine White, Plymouth England, Plymouth Rock, Provincetown Harbor
• R: Religious freedom
• S: Samoset, Separatists, Speedwell, Storm at sea, Strangers
• T: Thatched roof, Three days of feasting, Tisquantum, Two months at sea
• W: Wampanoag, Wattle and daub, Wild fowl, William Bradford

Pilgrims and the Mayflower bingo at a glance

When to play Pilgrims and the Mayflower bingo

How long Pilgrims and the Mayflower bingo lasts

150 shuffled call orders, played on the first 60 cards of this set. With 30 players the first line comes after a median 13 calls (about 2 minutes at one call every 10 seconds); the first blackout needs 40 calls (about 7 minutes).

How to host Pilgrims and the Mayflower bingo

1. 1

   Print the Pilgrims and the Mayflower cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Myles Standish, Mayflower Compact, Harvest of 1621, Atlantic Ocean and First winter.

2. 2

   Print the caller sheet

   All 44 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with Coif, Atlantic Ocean, Thatched roof, Mayflower Compact and Strangers; tick each one as you read it out.

3. 3

   Ask a quick question with each person square: who was Tisquantum, who was Samoset, who was Christopher Jones? Players mark only after someone answers correctly.

4. 4

   Before the game, place 102 passengers, 41 signers and Harvest of 1621 on a class timeline so students can find each number in context when it is called.

5. 5

   Correct common myths as you go: Plymouth Rock became famous long after 1620, and the Three days of feasting in 1621 were a harvest celebration shared with Wampanoag men.

6. 6

   Call until someone shouts bingo

   With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 13 (Plymouth Rock in this set's order) and a blackout near call 40; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.

Pilgrims and the Mayflower bingo variations

• Pilgrims and the Mayflower variation

  Timeline bingo: the caller reads squares in random order, but a winning line counts only if the player can put its squares in the right historical order, from Leiden to the Alliance of 1621.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 squares, Myles Standish to Strangers; on average one card fills after 43.2 of the 44 calls (98% of the deck).

• Quick 4x4 round

  A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 44 entries and no free space; one card is full after about 42.4 calls instead of 43.2.

First 15 calls of this Pilgrims and the Mayflower set

Seed "pilgrims-and-mayflower" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 17 of the first 30 completes the N column (John Carver, Alliance of 1621, Samoset and Atlantic Ocean) on call 12, and card 7 is the first full card on call 41.

Themes like Pilgrims and the Mayflower 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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