California Gold Rush Bingo Cards

California Gold Rush Bingo Card

These cards are about California Gold Rush. They were made using such words as "seeing the elephant", alluvial gold, diggings, placer, and riffles.

We made the cards using Bingo Card Creator. You can download a PDF file of eight cards ready to cut up and play.

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Words List For California Gold Rush Bingo Cards

"seeing the elephant" 1849 Cousin Jack Fool's Gold Welcome Stranger
alluvial gold claim claim jumping color coyoting
diggings long tom mother lode panning pay dirt
placer placer mining pocket poke prospector
riffles slickins tailing dump tailings tailrace



How To Play California Gold Rush Bingo

  1. Print out your free California Gold Rush bingo boards, or make custom ones with Bingo Card Creator. Click here to get started.
  2. Give one card to each player.
  3. Call off words randomly, for example by using a call list. You can either just say a word, like "mother lode", or you can make up a more involved clue involving mother lode.
  4. When a word is called, each player should find it and mark it.
  5. The first player(s) to clear five words in any direction (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) wins a small prize.

Notes: How long a bingo game lasts depends on what pace you read the clues at and how many players you have. If you read faster, such as for older or more experienced students, or if you have more players, the game tends to end more quickly. In general, I suggest allocating between twenty and thirty minutes to a bingo game. Since they can potentially end as early as the fourth word called, though that is quite rare, I encourage you to keep playing in the event of the game being over earlier than you expected it to be. Almost 90% of bingo games with a 25 word list and 25 players will see their first bingo within 7 to 11 words being called.