How to Play Autograph Bingo

Meet and remember people by learning interesting things about them while playing autograph bingo.

Autograph bingo is a way to let people introduce themselves and each other to others. This is a good game to play in a seminar setting where people will be working and learning together for several days. It helps players put faces with names and also gives people something distinct to help them remember a person later in the event.

Things You'll Need

• Printer paper
• Computer
• Printer
• Markers

Instructions

1. Create a set of bingo cards that are 5 squares across and 5 down. Do this using the "table" tool in most word processors.

2. Write a character trait or interesting fact in each square. Examples might be "likes anchovies," "has been skydiving" or "speaks more than one language." If you wish, make the center square a "free" square as in traditional bingo. Make sure that all the traits are on all the cards, but not in the same order on every card.

3. Print out a card for each player. If you wish, print them on heavy paper to make them more durable.

4. Give each player a card and a marker. They must find enough different people to sign their cards that they create a "Bingo" in order to win. Each player can only sign the same card once.

5. Have the players who "bingo" introduce everyone in their bingo row. You will probably have several people bingo at about the same time, which should get almost everyone introduced. If not, then once a winner has introduced his bingos, then the game can resume until someone else gets bingo. At the end, you can also have everyone who signed a character trait stand up to demonstrate mutual interests and skills.