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About: This bingo card nails the chaos and charm of high school debate tournaments, especially for novices or those coaching them. It perfectly captures that mix of nerves, rookie mistakes, and memorable moments everyone can relate to—whether you’re a judge, coach, or competitor. Bring this to your next tournament for laughs and camaraderie in the debate community.
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How to play Novice Bingo Cards?
Printed Players: Print PDF bingo cards and manually write on the cards.
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Start by downloading the Novice 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 marks if there are greater than 1 bingo cards per page.
Distribute one card per player. For marking, you can use pens. Crayons are the cheapest.
Select 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 begins the game by randomly picking an item from the call list and saying it to everyone.
The players check their cards to see if they have the announced word. If they do, they dab 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 confirms that the items crossed off form a proper line as per the Bingo card and call list.
You can play for different patterns or a full card blackout for a longer game.
This Novice Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: Reads cards in the 2AR/2NR, "On my first word", Open CX with their partner doing it, Reads straight down the novice packet, Reading straight off varsity blocks, Conceding 30+ seconds in the 1AR, Speaks slower than conversational speed, Clarity is chucked to oblivion, Forgetting to time their speech, Being overtly aggressive, Not flowing, Going to the bathroom to try and steal prep, Dropping args then re-extending them, Shadow extensions, Debate term misued the entire round, Forgets the order of speeches/CX, Reading a K and completely misunderstanding, Overly emotional, Not getting close to finishing the 1AC/1NC, Saying "perm" then moving on, Dropping case in the 1AR, All prep used before the 2NR/2AR, Asking extremely open-ended CX questions, Re-reads analytics/cards from previous speech.
This Novice Bingo Cards Game contains following Words or Phrases: Reads cards in the 2AR/2NR, "On my first word", Open CX with their partner doing it, Reads straight down the novice packet, Reading straight off varsity blocks, Conceding 30+ seconds in the 1AR, Speaks slower than conversational speed, Clarity is chucked to oblivion, Forgetting to time their speech, Being overtly aggressive, Not flowing, Going to the bathroom to try and steal prep, Dropping args then re-extending them, Shadow extensions, Debate term misued the entire round, Forgets the order of speeches/CX, Reading a K and completely misunderstanding, Overly emotional, Not getting close to finishing the 1AC/1NC, Saying "perm" then moving on, Dropping case in the 1AR, All prep used before the 2NR/2AR, Asking extremely open-ended CX questions, Re-reads analytics/cards from previous speech.