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- Time: 5 - 10 mins
- Cost: None
- Mess: No Mess
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Submitted by: Shorty on 22-Dec-2007
Game categories: Relaxing games, Icebreaker games
Materials: paper, pens
This is probably one of the oldest and most well known icebreakers. It works for groups of all ages, and can be a really interesting game if played properly.
You'll need to create a name bingo sheet, so basically a 4 x 4 grid of personal statements. IE. "has long hair" or "has more than 5 siblings" or "has travelled overseas" etc
Hand these sheets out to each person and give them a pen, and then send them off to mingle and find people that fit in the gaps. Each player can only use another person once on their sheet.
So the game can either finish when someone collects a name for the entire grid (16) ...
OR the game can continue and bingo can be played once everyone has completed their grids. So a leader would start reading out the names of the youth group kids and then they would need to cross off a name when it has been called - if they get 4 in a row - they win!
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Comments
2 people have commented on Name Bingo
Christine Fitzgerald
April 14, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Another variation to this game is getting people to draw the person, which encourages them to hang around the person longer than just making contact long enough to get their name...
or have questions ie. 'someone who likes the same tv show as you' as opposed to just factual information. This will help kids find others with similar interests as opposed to kids that look the same as them :P
Samara
June 16, 2008 at 6:25 pm
You could use this several different ways. You could make up a grid with the names of the people who a regulars to your youth group and leave a few blank spaces to add visitors names-use as an ice breaker to help everyone get to know each other or you could use it with the book of the Bible--put on grid in order so they will get use to seeing them in order and they could learn the books of the Bible this way. And paly either one the way you would play regular bingo-