Famous Inventors Bingo Cards

Inventors Bingo Card

These cards are about Inventors. This list is comprised of great historical inventors whose inventions changed the world. These include words like Thomas Edison, Chester Carlson, Gottlieb Daimler, Konrad Zuse, and Rudolf Diesel.

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Words List For Inventors Bingo Cards

Thomas Edison Adolf Eugen Fick Aleksandar Just Alexander Graham Bell Cai Lun
Chester Carlson Christopher Sholes Cyrus W. Field Eli Whitney George Eastman
Gottlieb Daimler Hans von Ohain John Bardeen John Fitch Katherine Blodgett
Konrad Zuse Leo Baekeland Lewis Urry Michael Faraday Philo T. Farnsworth
Rudolf Diesel Samuel F. B. Morse Thomas Savery Walter Hunt Zacharias Janssen



How To Play Famous Inventors Bingo

  1. Print out your free Inventors 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 "John Bardeen", or you can make up a more involved clue involving John Bardeen.
  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.