Reading Challenge Bingo Card Generator

About Reading Challenge bingo

All 44 Reading Challenge bingo tasks

Every entry from A friend's pick to Unread book you own, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop “Number in the title” if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• A: A friend's pick, Animal on the cover, Audiobook 🎧, Award-winning book
• B: Biography, Book club pick, Book made into a film, Book of essays, Book set at sea, Book with a blue cover, Book with a map
• C: Classic novel, Color in the title, Cookbook
• D: Debut novel
• F: Fantasy novel, First in a series, From your birth year
• G: Graphic novel
• H: Historical fiction
• L: Library book
• M: Memoir, Mystery novel
• N: Number in the title
• O: One-word title, Over 400 pages
• P: Picture book, Play script, Poetry collection, Popular science book
• R: Read aloud to someone, Read before breakfast, Read in one day, Read outdoors, Reread a favorite
• S: Science fiction, Set in another country, Set in winter, Short story collection
• T: Translated book, Travel memoir, Twist ending
• U: Under 150 pages, Unread book you own

Reading Challenge bingo at a glance

Reading Challenge bingo as a called game

For a one-session version, draw the 44 tasks at random like a classic game. 150 shuffled orders on this set's first 60 cards: with 30 players the first line comes after a median 12 calls (about 2 minutes at 10 seconds a call); a blackout needs 40.

How to play Reading Challenge bingo

1. 1

   Print the Reading Challenge cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with “Color in the title”, “Read aloud to someone”, “Read in one day”, “Book of essays” and “Science fiction”.

2. 2

   Agree on the time frame

   Each player marks a square once it is done, such as “Play script” or “Book made into a film”. Set the period first (a week, a month, a season); a line needs 5 squares (4 on a line through the free center) and a full card all 24.

3. 3

   Allow one book per square so the card lasts; a single novel should not count for “Mystery novel”, “Over 400 pages” and “Library book” at once.

4. 4

   For classrooms, swap “Over 400 pages” for a shorter target and add a “Picture book” to read aloud to a younger buddy.

5. 5

   Keep a list on the back of the card with the title you used for each square; book clubs can compare lists at the end of the season.

6. 6

   Check the card

   Ask the winner what they did for each square on the line. A full card is 24 of the 44 tasks; card 1 of this set, for example, includes “Color in the title” and “Read aloud to someone”.

Reading Challenge bingo variations

• Reading Challenge variation

  Book swap: when a reader completes a line, they recommend one book from it to another player, who must read it to fill their own “A friend's pick” square.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 tasks, “Color in the title” to “Biography”; over a 30-day month that is about 5.6 tasks a week.

• Quick 4x4 round

  A 4x4 card has 16 squares and no free space, so a full card needs 16 tasks instead of 24; lines take 4.

First 15 entries on the Reading Challenge caller sheet

Seed "reading-challenge" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints (use it as a checklist, or call from it). With these entries in this order, card 10 of the first 30 completes the G column (“From your birth year”, “One-word title”, “Book of essays”, “Unread book you own” and “Memoir”) on entry 8, and card 30 is the first full card on entry 39.

Themes like Reading Challenge 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.