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About: This bingo card is all about making connections and finding common ground within an academic or tech-focused group, like graduate students or research teams. With prompts centered on shared interests, backgrounds, and experiences both in and out of the classroom, it’s a great icebreaker for orientations, workshops, or any event where new colleagues are getting to know each other.
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How to play Cohort Bingo Cards?
Printed Players: Print PDF bingo cards and manually scratch the cards.
Printed Caller: Print PDF calling list & calling slips and manually choose the slips.
Virtual Caller: Click on the Play button above.
Virtual Players: Click on the Play button above, and then click on the 🎫 button.
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Step-By-Step:
Start by saving the Cohort Bingo PDF by clicking on the "Print" button above.
Open the PDF and print a hard copy.
For random drawing, you can print another copy of the call list, cut, fold and then pull them randomly at play time.
Cut the bingo cards at the cut lines if there are more than 1 bingo cards per page.
Distribute one card per player. For marking, you can use crayons. Crayons are the cheapest.
Pick one person to be the caller. If you are playing in a small group, the caller can as well play along with their own Bingo card.
The caller opens the game by randomly picking an item from the call list and announcing it to all players.
The players check their cards to see if they have the announced word. If they do, they mark that word.
The first player to complete a horizontal, vertical, or a diagonal line of marked items shouts "Bingo!" and wins the game.
The caller checks that the items marked form a correct line according to the Bingo card and call list.
You can play for different patterns or a full card blackout for a longer game.
This Cohort Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: Same taste in music, Same unplugged hobby, Same research interest, Same family pet, Knows the same coding language, Same favorite food on campus, Different country you grew up in, Different research interest, Same birthday month, Different undergrad major, Just moved to Blacksburg, Has lived in Blacksburg for over a year, Programs in their free time, Doesn't program in their free time, Graduated Spring 2025, Graduated before Spring 2025, Speaks a language you don't, Someone who has more research experience than you, Someone who has less research experience than you, Same favorite candy/treat, Shares a common music interest, Shares a common movie interest, Shares a common TV show interest, Same interest (or disinterest) in video game genres, Same disdain for a programming language or application, Someone who uses AI more than you, Someone who uses AI less than you.
This Cohort Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: Same taste in music, Same unplugged hobby, Same research interest, Same family pet, Knows the same coding language, Same favorite food on campus, Different country you grew up in, Different research interest, Same birthday month, Different undergrad major, Just moved to Blacksburg, Has lived in Blacksburg for over a year, Programs in their free time, Doesn't program in their free time, Graduated Spring 2025, Graduated before Spring 2025, Speaks a language you don't, Someone who has more research experience than you, Someone who has less research experience than you, Same favorite candy/treat, Shares a common music interest, Shares a common movie interest, Shares a common TV show interest, Same interest (or disinterest) in video game genres, Same disdain for a programming language or application, Someone who uses AI more than you, Someone who uses AI less than you.