Famous Pirates Bingo Cards

Historical Pirates Bingo Card

These cards are about Historical Pirates. These pirates gained wealth and notoriety sailing the seven seas. These include words like Barbarossa, Charles Swan, John Fenn, Pedro Gilbert, and Sir John Hawkins.

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Words List For Historical Pirates Bingo Cards

Barbarossa Benito De Soto Black Bart Blackbeard Calico Jack
Charles Swan Dirk Chivers Henry Morgan Jan Janz Jean Bart
John Fenn John Ward Jose Gaspar Lionel Wafer Mary Read
Pedro Gilbert Piet Hein Red Legs Greaves Sam Lord Samuel Mason
Sir John Hawkins Thomas Cavendish Tobias Bridge William Dampier William Kidd



How To Play Famous Pirates Bingo

  1. Print out your free Historical Pirates 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 "Jose Gaspar", or you can make up a more involved clue involving Jose Gaspar.
  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.