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Bingo. mingle first, then race to be called.

Everyone gets a number. The only way to fill your card is to walk over to people and ask for theirs. Then the calling starts and the room goes quiet.

Not the bingo hall version. This is the one that gets a room of strangers out of their chairs, because you physically cannot fill your card without talking to people you have never met.

2 to 100 players·Free for up to 10 players·In the room or over a call
Calling · 14 called

Just called

42

  • 07
  • 23
  • 42
  • 56
  • 61
  • 88

Tap a number when it is called. Two to go.

You collected these from six different people

What a player is looking at, mid-round.

  • Everyone gets their own number
  • You collect numbers by talking to people
  • Build your card on your phone, edit any time
  • You call the numbers, players tap their matches
  • First full card wins, with a top three

What actually happens

The icebreaker that gets the whole room moving.

Everyone joins on their phone and gets a number. Nobody knows anyone else's yet. The only way to fill your card is to get up, walk over to somebody, and ask. So that is what the room does.

You collect five or six numbers depending on what you set, tapping each one in as you go. You can swap one out later if you change your mind. When your card is full you lock it in, and it is saved, so a dropped signal never costs anyone their progress.

Then you start calling. A number goes up on the screen and anyone holding it taps to mark it green. People watch their own cards fill up, and the first full one takes it. Stop there, or keep calling to settle second and third.

The rules

How Bingo actually plays.

How to play

  1. 1

    Before starting, the host sets two things: how many numbers each player collects (3 to 12), and the marking mode (tap it yourself, or auto-mark)

  2. 2

    Everyone gets their own number when the game starts (a few each in a small room)

  3. 3

    Walk around and talk to people to collect their numbers, building your list on your phone. Only real numbers other players hold count, if you type one nobody has, it shows orange and won't count until you swap it

  4. 4

    Fill your whole list (the host's target), then submit, you can still change it before calling starts

  5. 5

    The host calls numbers one at a time. In tap mode you tap a called number that's on your list to mark it green; in auto mode it marks itself

  6. 6

    Some called numbers belong to nobody, that's on purpose, to keep you guessing

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How to win

Be the first to get a FULL card, every number on your complete list called and marked. If you only collected a few, you can't complete a card that round. The host can stop at the first winner or keep calling to decide 2nd and 3rd place. If two people finish together, whoever marks first takes the higher spot.

What makes it work

  • 🤝 The mingling is the game, you have to actually talk to people
  • 📱 Build and edit your list on your own phone (it comes back if you reload)
  • 📣 The host calls the numbers; tap your matches, or let them auto-mark
  • 🎭 Decoy numbers nobody holds keep the tension up
  • 🏆 First full card wins, with a top-three podium
  • 👥 2 to 100 players

While you host

You run it. Everything else keeps itself.

Once Bingo is running, the scoring, the leaderboard, and the ending are handled. You get to be in the room instead of behind a spreadsheet.

Leaderboard

Round 6 of 10

  • 1RARachel1st place1,860
  • 2EMEmeka2nd place1,240
  • 3PRPriya3rd place620
Between rounds, everyone sees where they stand.

Final podium

Rachel wins

Emeka

2,000

2

Rachel

3,000

1

Priya

1,000

3

First three full cards

And this is how it ends, on whatever screen you are casting to.

  • Nobody downloads anything

    A code goes on your screen. People point a camera at it, type a name, and they are in. No app, no accounts, no one asking what the wifi password is.

  • The scores keep themselves

    Answers are marked as they land and the board updates between rounds. You are not holding a clipboard, and nobody is arguing about who said it first.

  • It ends on a podium

    Top three on the big screen at the end, and every player gets their own result card on their phone that they can save or send to the group chat.

  • One room or five countries

    The same session works with everyone around one table, everyone on a video call, or half and half. Nobody has to be in the right place to join in.

Where Bingo shines

Same game, different rooms, same noise.

Conference mixer

The networking hour people actually work.

A conference opens with a mixer that normally means two hundred people reading each other's lanyards in silence. This time the organiser runs Bingo. To fill a card you have to introduce yourself to five strangers. Ten minutes in, the room is a wall of conversation, and by the time the calling starts half of them already know each other's names.

Company onboarding

New starters meeting the whole floor by accident.

A cohort of new joiners dropped into an office they have never seen. The People team runs Bingo across the floor. To collect numbers, new starters have to walk up to desks they would never have approached. There is a winner at the end, but the actual result is that every new joiner has now spoken to a dozen people they will work with.

Wedding reception

The bride's side, finally meeting the groom's side.

Two families who have never met, seated at opposite ends of a marquee. The MC runs Bingo before the speeches. Suddenly Aunt Linda is asking a groomsman for his number and the kids are sprinting between tables. By the time the calling starts, the two halves of the room have properly mixed for the first time all day.

Make it yours

Same game, your room.

Set how many numbers each person has to collect and whether they mark their own card or you do it for them. That is the whole setup, and it changes how long the mingling lasts.

  • Conference and meetup mixers

    Set a high collection target and the mingling runs for twenty minutes. Nobody has to be told to network, because the game will not let them finish otherwise.

  • Onboarding week

    Run it across the whole floor so new starters have a reason to approach people they would otherwise avoid for a month.

  • Weddings and family gatherings

    The fastest way to get two sides of a room to mix. Lower the target so the kids can finish too.

  • Church and community groups

    Regulars and newcomers end up talking to each other rather than clustering with the people they already know.

How Bingo plays

One game, played across the whole room.

Everyone plays as an individual on their own phone. The mingling is the game and the calling is the finish.

Mingle and collect

The room fills its own cards.

Each person gets one number and a target to hit. The only way to hit it is to talk to other people and swap, so a static room becomes a moving one. Cards save as people go, so nobody loses their progress.

Best for: mixers, onboarding, conferences, and weddings, anywhere the goal is getting people who do not know each other to actually meet.

You call

You reveal the numbers, the room reacts.

When everyone is ready you call numbers one at a time, either picking them yourself or letting Neegma choose. Players tap their matches. First full card wins, and you decide whether to keep going for a podium.

Best for: a clean, dramatic finish that pulls the whole room's attention back to one screen.

Offline · Coming soon

Online only, for now.

Bingo is built around every person holding their own number and marking their own card, so for now everyone needs a phone. A shared-device version may follow, but the mingling that makes this game work really does want a device in every hand.

Get your room out of their chairs and talking.

Free to start. Everyone gets a number and the room does the rest.