Reality TV Tropes Bingo Card Generator

About Reality TV Tropes bingo

All 42 Reality TV Tropes bingo moments

Every entry from Alliance broken to Villain edit, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop “Underdog wins” if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• A: Alliance broken, Alliance formed
• B: Bleeped word, Blindside vote, Blurred logo
• C: Cliffhanger, Confessional interview, Crying in the car, Cut to commercial
• D: Double elimination, Dramatic close-up, Dramatic exit, Dramatic pause
• E: Elimination
• F: Fight over a bed, Final challenge
• G: Group date
• H: Host's catchphrase
• I: Immunity win
• J: Judges' table
• K: Kitchen disaster, Kitchen gossip
• L: Letter from home
• M: Makeover reveal, Mansion tour
• O: Ominous music
• P: Previously on recap, Producer's voice, Product placement
• R: Redemption arc, Reunion special, Rival returns
• S: Secret revealed, Shocking twist, Slow-motion walk, Sob story, Someone storms off, Surprise guest
• T: Teary goodbye, Time's up!
• U: Underdog wins
• V: Villain edit

Reality TV Tropes bingo at a glance

How many moments until Reality TV Tropes bingo has a winner

Nobody controls the order here, so this table assumes the 42 moments come up in random order: 150 shuffled orders on the first 60 cards of this set. With 30 players the first line comes after a median 12 moments; a blackout needs 38 of the 42, so most games end on a line.

How to play Reality TV Tropes bingo

1. 1

   Print the Reality TV Tropes cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with “Time's up!”, “Ominous music”, “Kitchen disaster”, “Surprise guest” and “Confessional interview”.

2. 2

   Watch and mark, no caller needed

   Players mark a square the moment it happens or is said, “Shocking twist” for example. Keep the shuffled caller sheet (opening with “Someone storms off”, “Bleeped word” and “Villain edit”) as your checklist, or read from it to run a called game instead.

3. 3

   Play one card per episode and mark squares only when they happen on screen; a “Previously on recap” at the start gives everyone an early mark.

4. 4

   For competition shows, keep “Immunity win” and “Judges' table”; for dating shows, swap them for more relationship squares using the custom words box.

5. 5

   Watching remotely, have one person act as the official judge for close calls such as whether a pause really counts as a “Dramatic pause”.

6. 6

   Check the winning line

   If the moments come in random order, 30 players see a first line after about 12 of them; ask the winner when each square on the line happened and compare with your checklist.

Reality TV Tropes bingo variations

• Reality TV Tropes variation

  Prediction round: before the episode, each player circles three squares they are sure will happen; predicted squares count double toward a line, but a missed prediction costs one marked square.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 moments, “Time's up!” to “Final challenge”; if they come in random order, one card fills after 41.3 of the 42 on average, so save it for a long event.

• Quick 4x4 round

  A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 42 moments and no free space; one card is full after about 40.5 moments instead of 41.3.

First 15 entries on the Reality TV Tropes caller sheet

Seed "reality-tv-tropes" 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 23 of the first 30 completes row 3 (“Double elimination”, “Fight over a bed”, “Ominous music” and “Surprise guest”) on entry 15, and card 17 is the first full card on entry 40.

Themes like Reality TV Tropes 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.