Osric Bingo
Create Bingo Cards with Images. This does yet not work in Internet Explorer. Please try Firefox or Chrome. Drag-and-drop image files (JPEG, GIF, PNG) from your computer below. You'll need at least 25 images to fill all the squares. Small images (try 128x128 or 150x150) that are approximately the same size work best. A 5x5 bingo card is traditional, but you can try other sizes. Number of Squares Wide Number of Squares Tall Printing Options. Select the landscape page layout when printing for best results. Bingo is easy to learn and play. Children young and old alike can learn Chinese characters and words by playing Bingo games! This tool is created for Chinese teachers and parents to quickly generate custom Bingo cards and randomized call sheets with your own Chinese characters and words.
- Call your games of Bingo using the APPA Bingo Caller. The caller caters for games with 75 or 90 balls. It keeps a record of all balls drawn, and the order in which they are drawn. The draw is randomised, and allows for 'false calls' of house.
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This bingo card maker is not just for learning Chinese, you can use this tool to generate traditional 5x5 number bingo cards or other educational bingo cards to support and reinforce lessons in mathematics, language arts, science, social studies, and just about any area of the curriculum! To generate traditional 5x5 number bingo cards, simply click the Generate Bingo Cards without entering anything. To create other educational game cards, simply enter your terms on the Chinese boxes and leave Pinyin and definition boxes blank. After that, click the Generate Bingo Cards button.
This tool supports both simplified and traditional Chinese characters. You can click the Pinyin button to populate the Pinyin for the characters automatically.
Once you sign in, the Bingo word lists you saved before are shown on the right side of the page. You can load them to re-generate a new set of Bingo cards.
To create a set of printable Bingo cards,
- Enter the title of the word list you are using to create the Bingo cards. The title is not required for generating Bingo cards, but an unique title is needed to save the word list to the server for future use.
- Enter the Chinese character or word. You can copy or paste Chinese text from other sources, such as web pages or word documents, or enter them using your faovorite Chinese Input Method Editor(IME).
- Optionally, enter the definition of the Chinese character or word in English (or your native language). You can click the E button to let the system fill in the definition for you if the Chinese is a single character or a commonly-used word. The Chinese word should not be more than 4 characters long.
- Optionally, click the P button to add Pinyin automatically. In the case there are multiple pronunciations for a particular character, the system will attempt to use the right one based on its context. In some cases, the user may have to edit it. Note Pinyin must be entered with tone numbers. When the Bingo card PDF file is generated, the system will convert them to tone marks. In addition, the Pinyin syllables must be separated by a blank space. Use v for ü, for example lv3 for lǚ, and number 5 for the neutral tone, e.g. ma5 (吗).
- Click the Add Rows button to add more word entries. For 5X5 cards, a minimum of 25 rows is required. Custom 3X3 and 4X4 cards need minimum 9 and 16 rows, respectively.
- Optionally, change the default Bingo card generation settings.
- Click the Generate Bingo Cards button to generate a set of Bingo cards.
- Optionally, click the Generate Call Sheets button to generate a randomized call sheet. You can print two copies of the call sheet, one for keeping track of the drawn numbers or words and the other one for making drawing pieces.
- Optionally, click the Save button to save the entered list to the server for future use.
The best way to call out random numbers
Forget the noisy old bingo cage with numbered balls. You can now have your own bingo caller in your web browser, and display the flashboard in another screen. By default, the caller will have 75 random numbers. You will not lose your draws if you refresh the page. You can make random draws, or select the numbers by yourself in the table. Keep going until a player gets a winning pattern. Confirm the valid squares with the table, give a prize to the winner.
How does it work?
First, select how many random numbers you want to have in your caller (a standard game has 75 or 90 numbers). Once you are ready to activate the caller, click “Start the caller”. You can display the flashboard to players by clicking on “Open the board in an external window”. You can display the board in another screen to players by dragging the window.
When you are ready to start, click “Make a draw”. You can also make automatic draws by clicking on “Start” and “Stop”. You can also select the wait time between draws in seconds by clicking on the number (5 seconds is the default setting). If you want to make the draws with a bingo cage, and use the caller as a flashboard to display the draws to players, click “Manual selection of the draws”. Once this function is activated, click ok the numbers yourself in the table to mark them as played. You can reset the caller by clicking on “Start a new game”. If you want to modify how many numbers you have in the caller, click “Close the caller”.
Print and cut the numbers:
Osric Bingo Number Caller
If you want to make the draws, but you don’t have a bingo cage, you can use cutout numbers. The call sheets available on this website can be used to play bingo with 75 or 90 numbers. Print the list of numbers, cut on dotted lines and make the random draws for the bingo game.