World Capitals Bingo Card Generator

About World Capitals bingo

All 47 World Capitals bingo answers

Every entry from Abuja to Wellington, grouped by first letter. Edit them in the generator above: drop Dublin if it does not suit your group, or add your own.

• A: Abuja, Accra, Addis Ababa, Ankara, Athens
• B: Bangkok, Beijing, Berlin, Bogotá, Brasília, Buenos Aires
• C: Cairo, Canberra, Caracas
• D: Dakar, Doha, Dublin
• H: Hanoi, Havana
• I: Islamabad
• K: Kathmandu, Kingston, Kyiv
• L: Lima, London
• M: Madrid, Manila, Mexico City, Moscow
• N: Nairobi, New Delhi
• O: Oslo, Ottawa
• P: Paris
• Q: Quito
• R: Rabat, Riyadh, Rome
• S: Santiago, Seoul, Stockholm
• T: Tehran, Tokyo
• U: Ulaanbaatar
• W: Warsaw, Washington D.C., Wellington

World Capitals bingo at a glance

How long World Capitals bingo lasts

150 shuffled call orders, played on the first 60 cards of this set; allow a little longer per call, since players have to work out each answer. With 30 players the first line comes after a median 14 calls (about 2 minutes at one call every 10 seconds); the first blackout needs 42.

How to host World Capitals bingo

1. 1

   Print the World Capitals cards

   Give each player one card; a free set prints up to 30, no two alike. Card 1 above starts with Canberra, Washington D.C., London, Ulaanbaatar and Lima.

2. 2

   Call the clue, not the square

   The caller sheet lists all 47 answers in shuffled order, opening with Caracas, Ottawa, Cairo, Bogotá and Madrid. For each one, read out the country (say “Canada” and players look for Ottawa), then tick it.

3. 3

   Call the country instead of the city for a harder round: players hear Australia and must find “Canberra”, or hear Nigeria and look for “Abuja”.

4. 4

   Read accented names slowly and show the spelling on a board, because “Bogotá” and “Brasília” look different on the card from how many players expect.

5. 5

   Mix in a quick fact round after each line: the winner names the country for three capitals on their row, such as “Rabat”, “Hanoi” and “Wellington”.

6. 6

   Check the answers on the winning line

   With 30 cards, expect the first line near call 14 (Wellington in this set's order). Ask the winner to say the clue for each square, which doubles as a quick review.

World Capitals bingo variations

• World Capitals variation

  Play Hemisphere Bingo: the caller reads a capital and players may only mark it if it is in the same hemisphere as the previous call, so “Santiago” after “Oslo” stays unmarked until it comes round again.

• Blackout round

  Card 1 needs all 24 answers, Canberra to Havana; on average one card fills after 46.1 of the 47 calls (98% of the deck).

• Quick 4x4 round

  A 4x4 card needs 16 of the 47 answers and no free space; one card is full after about 45.2 calls instead of 46.1.

First 15 calls of this World Capitals set

Seed "world-capitals" gives this order, the same one the caller sheet prints. With these calls, card 28 of the first 30 completes the diagonal from the top left (Ottawa, Quito, Moscow and Berlin) on call 12, and card 3 is the first full card on call 43.

Themes like World Capitals bingo

European Capitals bingo is the closest list: it shares 12 entries with this one, such as London and Paris. For a longer game, paste both lists into the Edit words box; duplicates are removed automatically.