British Authors Bingo Cards

English Authors Bingo Card

These cards are about English Authors. These 14th-20th Century authors from England wrote classic books like "The Hobbitt" and "Frankenstein" and well known sonnets and poetry. These include words like Agatha Christie, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, and Sir Walter Scott.

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Words List For English Authors Bingo Cards

Agatha Christie Alfred Tennyson Ben Jonson Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte
Christina Rossetti Christopher Marlowe Elizabeth Barrett Browning G. K. Chesterton Geoffrey Chaucer
George Eliot Ian Fleming J.R.R. Tolkien Jane Austen John Keats
Lewis Carroll Lord Byron Mary Shelley Robert Browning Robert Graves
Sir Walter Scott Virginia Woolf William Butler Yeats William Golding William Shakespeare



How To Play British Authors Bingo

  1. Print out your free English Authors 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 "J.R.R. Tolkien", or you can make up a more involved clue involving J.R.R. Tolkien.
  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.