Nonsense Poem Bingo Cards

Jabberwocky Bingo Card

These cards are about Jabberwocky. This is a list of words from Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem found in "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There". Jabberwocky has been translated into languages all over the world including Hebrew, Japanese, and Dutch. Some of these words invent These include words like bandersnatch, callooh, gyre, outgrabe, and tulgey.

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Words List For Jabberwocky Bingo Cards

bandersnatch beamish borogoves burbled callay
callooh chortled frumious galumphing gimble
gyre jubjub manxome mimsy mome
outgrabe raths slithy snicker-snack toves
tulgey tumtum uffish vorpal wabe



How To Play Nonsense Poem Bingo

  1. Print out your free Jabberwocky 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 "manxome", or you can make up a more involved clue involving manxome.
  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.