How to make a bingo card for Instagram stories

Story bingo is a grid of things that may apply to you. As Kapwing’s 2020 guide describes it, people tick theirs, post the story, and tag friends to post the same.

To make the card, paste at least 24 squares, one per line, into the bingo card generator. It shuffles them into a 5×5 grid around a FREE centre and hands back a 1080 × 1350 image to post. No grid to draw, no account to open: the work left is writing squares your friends will recognise.

What do I fill in?

Only “The squares” is required; the other fields have defaults.

Bullets and numbers at the start of a line are removed, so a list pasted from a note or a chat works as it is. The form opens on an example, “2026 bingo”. “Start from” swaps in a title and 24 squares for a baby shower, a road trip, a meeting, Christmas, a wedding or back to school.

A list that is too short is refused with the reason. With 23 lines, it reads: “A bingo card needs at least 24 squares, one per line — this text has 23.” Your squares stay in the box, ready to complete.

What comes out, and how does it fit a story?

You get a JPEG image of 1080 by 1350 pixels. It holds the title across the top, your squares shuffled into the grid, and FREE in the centre. The site’s address and a QR code sit at the bottom. “Download the image” saves it for your story.

The card is 4:5, the frame the page labels “the feed and the story”. A story is 9:16, taller, so the whole grid fits inside it with room above and below for a caption or tags.

The grid is the card of American bingo: 25 squares in five rows and five columns, whose centre is “considered automatically filled”, in Wikipedia’s words.

Does each friend get a different card?

Yes: every press of “Generate” deals a new arrangement of the same squares, shown under the card as “Arrangement” and a number. With more than 24 squares in the list, each card also draws a different 24 of them.

For a party, fill in “Players”. “Download as PDF” then gives one card per A4 page, labelled Card 1, Card 2 and so on. The last page is a draw sheet listing every square of the list, numbered in the order to call them.

The same squares with the same arrangement number give the same card. “Print on A4” and “Print on US letter” redraw the card on screen at 300 dpi, square for square.

Can I tick the squares on the page?

Yes: “Play it here” shows the card as a grid of buttons, with the free centre already ticked. Complete a row, a column or a diagonal and “BINGO!” appears. Your ticks stay in this browser, for this arrangement only, and “Clear the card” starts over.

Questions

Can I make a bingo card without a free space?

No: the centre always reads FREE, so a card holds 24 of your squares.

Can I put pictures in the squares?

No: squares are text only, up to 48 characters each. A longer square is refused, and the list stays in the box to be shortened.

Can I make a 4×4 or 3×3 bingo card?

No: the generator draws the 5×5 grid only.

Is my list stored?

No: the card is drawn and handed back in the same response. Only the ticks of “Play it here” are kept, in your own browser.

Sources and further reading

• How to Make a Custom Instagram Bingo Template, Kapwing (Julia Enthoven, 2020) — how story bingo is played, and the 9:16 frame of a story.
• Bingo (American version), Wikipedia — the 5×5 card and its free centre.