Pronouns Bingo Card Generator
Pronouns bingo cards in seconds: 51 ready-made entries (Its, Himself and Whom among them), 24 on each 5x5 card with a free center, up to 30 unique cards free. With 30 players the first line usually comes after about 15 calls, roughly 3 minutes at 10 seconds a call.
| B | I | N | G | O |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Those | Hers | Yours | These | Our |
Itself | My | Nothing | They | Whose |
We | Her | FREE | Ourselves | Your |
That | Myself | Their | Themselves | Theirs |
Mine | Yourselves | Me | Them | Nobody |
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Edit words (51)
Cards update as you type. Long entries shrink to fit their square; a very long single word is split over two lines with a hyphen (up to 40 characters each). The PDF uses a built-in font: emoji and non-Latin scripts print best with Print cards.
Caller sheet
Every call in a shuffled order. Tick each one as you read it out; the same share link always gives the same order.
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About Pronouns bingo
Pronouns Bingo gathers the words that stand in for nouns: subject and object forms like “They” and “Them”, possessives like “Mine” and “Theirs”, reflexives like “Ourselves”, question words like “Whom” and “Whose”, and indefinites like “Nobody” and “Everything”. It suits ESL learners and grammar units, because many of these words are tiny and easy to mix up when reading quickly.
On a 5x5 card with a free center, Pronouns bingo shows 24 of the 51 entries, so each one lands on about 47% of the cards: in a set of 30, I or Me appears on roughly 14 cards. Card 1 leaves out 27 of them, including I, You and He, so no single card can mark everything.
The caller reads the 51 entries from a shuffled caller sheet and players mark them; the first complete line (row, column or diagonal) wins.
All 51 Pronouns bingo words
Every entry from Anyone to Yourselves, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop Himself if it does not suit your group, or add your own.
- A: Anyone
- B: Both
- E: Each, Everyone, Everything
- F: Few
- H: He, Her, Hers, Herself, Him, Himself, His
- I: I, It, Its, Itself
- M: Many, Me, Mine, My, Myself
- N: Nobody, None, Nothing
- O: Our, Ours, Ourselves
- S: She, Someone, Something
- T: That, Their, Theirs, Them, Themselves, These, They, This, Those
- U: Us
- W: We, Which, Who, Whom, Whose
- Y: You, Your, Yours, Yourself, Yourselves
Pronouns bingo at a glance
| Entries | 51 single words |
|---|---|
| Card | 5x5 card with a free center: 24 of the 51 |
| How it is played | A caller reads the shuffled caller sheet |
| Different cards possible | about 1.42 × 10³⁸ (order matters) |
| Different selections | 229,591,913,401,900 sets of 24 entries |
| Shortest entry | I (1 character) |
| Longest entry | Yourselves (10 characters) |
| Good for | ESL lessons, classrooms and kids |
| Category | Language arts & ESL (61 themes) |
How long Pronouns bingo lasts
150 shuffled call orders, played on the first 60 cards of this set. With 30 players the first line comes after a median 15 calls (about 3 minutes at one call every 10 seconds); the first blackout needs 46 calls (about 8 minutes).
| Players | First line | Line, 80% range | Blackout | Blackout, 80% range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 players | 19 calls | 13-23 | 48 calls | 45-49 |
| 30 players | 15 calls | 10-18 | 46 calls | 44-48 |
| 60 players | 13 calls | 9-16 | 45 calls | 43-47 |
| 1 card (exact average) | - | - | 49.9 calls | of 51 |
How to host Pronouns bingo
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Print the Pronouns cards
Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Those, Hers, Yours, These and Our.
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Print the caller sheet
All 51 entries appear on it in shuffled order, opening with Whose, He, Few, Anyone and Each; tick each one as you read it out.
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Call a short sentence with a blank, such as Give the book to ___, and let players mark any pronoun that fits, so “Him”, “Her” and “Them” all count.
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Group the reflexive pronouns into one round, from “Myself” to “Themselves”, and ask which person each one belongs to before marking.
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Watch for “Its” versus it is: write both on the board when “Its” is called so the possessive form without an apostrophe sticks.
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Call until someone shouts bingo
With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 15 (My in this set's order) and a blackout near call 46; check the winner's squares against your ticked list.
Pronouns bingo variations
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Pronouns variation
Swap it out: the caller reads a sentence with a noun underlined, such as Maria lost the keys. Players mark the pronoun that could replace it, here “She” or “Them”.
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Blackout round
Card 1 needs all 24 squares, Those to Nobody; on average one card fills after 49.9 of the 51 calls (98% of the deck).
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Quick 4x4 round
A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 51 entries and no free space; one card is full after about 48.9 calls instead of 49.9.
First 15 calls of this Pronouns set
Seed "pronouns" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 14 of the first 30 completes row 3 (Anyone, Both, Whom and My) on call 16, and card 13 is the first full card on call 47.
| Call | Entry | Cards marked (of 30) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Whose | 14 of 30 |
| 2 | He | 12 of 30 |
| 3 | Few | 14 of 30 |
| 4 | Anyone | 16 of 30 |
| 5 | Each | 12 of 30 |
| 6 | Whom | 15 of 30 |
| 7 | Who | 17 of 30 |
| 8 | Itself | 15 of 30 |
| 9 | These | 17 of 30 |
| 10 | Someone | 7 of 30 |
| 11 | They | 13 of 30 |
| 12 | Himself | 14 of 30 |
| 13 | Them | 16 of 30 |
| 14 | Everything | 10 of 30 |
| 15 | My | 18 of 30 |
Themes like Pronouns bingo
Ranked by category, occasion and audience; none of them repeats an entry from this list, so pasting two into the Edit words box gives a longer game.
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Frequently asked questions
How many words are on the Pronouns bingo list?
51, from Anyone to Yourselves. A 5x5 card with a free center uses 24 of them, so each card leaves out 27. The shortest entry is I (1 character) and the longest is Yourselves (10).
Are all Pronouns bingo cards the same?
No. Card 1 and card 2 of this set share 10 of their 24 squares, and every card is checked so none of the 30 in a free set repeats. About 1.42 × 10³⁸ different arrangements are possible from the 51 entries (229,591,913,401,900 different selections of 24).
How many Pronouns bingo cards per person?
Usually one. Extra cards speed the game up only a little: on this list a first line took a median 15 calls with 30 cards in play, 13 with 60 (30 players on two cards each) and 19 with just 10. Two cards suit adults who want a faster game; young children do best with one. A free set of 30 covers 15 players on two cards each.
How long does Pronouns bingo take?
A Pronouns game with 30 players usually reaches its first line after 15 calls (10-18 in 80% of simulated games), about 3 minutes at one call every 10 seconds. A blackout takes about 46; with 10 players the first line needs about 19.
Can I print Pronouns bingo cards for free?
Yes. All 51 entries are loaded above, so choose a card count up to 30 and press Print cards, or Download PDF to print later at one card per sheet (30 sheets for a full set). The shuffled caller sheet prints separately; nothing is uploaded or stored on a server.
How do I make my own Pronouns bingo cards?
Start from this list: the 51 entries are already in the generator, so delete Whom or any other entry, type your own one per line and the cards update as you type. Keep at least 24 entries for 5x5 cards (16 for 4x4); the share link reprints exactly the same set.
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