Emoji Bingo Card Generator

Printable emoji bingo with faces, food and fun emoji – or paste your own – every card different, plus a call list.

Emoji bingo is a game where each card’s squares show emoji pictures instead of numbers, and players mark them off as the caller reads them out. This free emoji bingo card generator makes printable cards right in your web browser. There is no sign-up, and nothing is uploaded, because the cards are made on your own device.

The page opens with a preset list of face emoji, so you can print a set straight away. You can switch to food, things or animal emoji, or type your own list. Emoji with a word, such as 🐶 Dog, print both the picture and the word. Cards work well for family game nights, classrooms, parties and team warm-ups.

Every card in a set has a different mix of squares, so no two cards match.

How to use the emoji bingo generator

The tool opens in My words mode with the Emoji faces list loaded.

Pick a list. Choose Emoji faces, Food emoji, Things emoji or Animal pictures, or edit the word list directly.
Edit the word list. Put one item per line. Add or delete lines, and paste or type emoji into the box.
Choose a grid size: 3 × 3, 4 × 4 or 5 × 5.
Switch the free space on or off. It is available on 3 × 3 and 5 × 5 grids. You can change its text from the default FREE. A 4 × 4 grid has no free space.
Check the item count. A 5 × 5 card with a free space needs 24 different items. If the list is short, the tool tells you how many more you need.
Set the number of cards, from 1 to 500. The default is 10.
Look at the preview. Use Previous and Next to view one card at a time.
Choose print options: 1, 2 or 4 cards per page, US Letter or A4 paper, a card title, an optional letters row, card numbers and one of six colours.
Click Print cards for the cards, or Print call list for a shuffled calling order with tick boxes and the full list to check a winner.

Use New set to get new random cards with a new game code. Copy link opens exactly the same cards again, including your word list. Use with the online caller opens the bingo caller page with the same game.

How to play emoji bingo

Each player gets a card with emoji squares. The caller picks an item from the call list and shows or reads it out. Players find the matching emoji on their card and mark it. The first player to mark a full line calls out “bingo” and wins.

A line can run across a row, down a column or along a diagonal. On a 3 × 3 or 5 × 5 card with a free space, the centre square counts as marked from the start, so it can help complete a line. The caller then checks the winner’s card against the full list in order. Printing the call list gives the caller a shuffled order to read from.

Emoji bingo also works for guessing games. In a “guess the feeling” round, the caller acts out a face emoji and players find the matching square. You can run emoji movie titles the same way, with one picture for each film.

Why do the emoji look different on my phone

Emoji are drawn with the device’s own emoji font. Apple, Android and Windows each have their own designs, so the same emoji looks slightly different on each. The printout uses the font of the device you print from. A card printed from a Windows PC may look a little different from one printed from an iPhone.

This does not change which emoji is on the card. If you want every card to look the same, print the whole set from one device.

Which emoji work best for bingo?

Pick emoji that look clearly different at a glance. Many face emoji differ only in the eyes or mouth, which is fine for older players but hard for young children; for them, mix faces with food, animals and things, or use the Animal pictures list, which adds a word under each emoji. Newer emoji may not exist on older phones and computers, so test-print one card before you print the whole set.

Frequently asked questions

Is emoji bingo free to print?

Yes. The generator is free and needs no sign-up. Click Print cards to print straight from your browser, or choose Save as PDF in the print dialog if you want a file to keep.

Can I use emoji bingo in a classroom?

Yes. The Emoji faces preset suits a feelings vocabulary lesson, and the game works well with the guess-the-feeling round. Print 4 cards per page to save paper when the class is large.

How do I put my own emoji on bingo cards?

Paste or type your emoji into the word list, one per line. On a phone, use the emoji keyboard. On Windows, press Windows key + . and on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space. You can mix emoji and words, such as 🍕 Pizza.

How many emoji does each card need?

A 5 × 5 card with a free space needs 24 different items, or 25 without one. A 4 × 4 card needs 16. A 3 × 3 card needs 8 with a free space or 9 without. If your list is too short, the tool tells you how many more to add.

Will every card in a set be different?

Yes. No two cards in a set have the same squares. If your list is too short for the number of cards you asked for, the tool tells you how many different cards are possible. With 40 emoji on a 5 × 5 card with a free space, there are 62,852,101,650 different sets of 24 squares.

What does the card number mean?

The card number combines the game code and the card’s position, such as K7Q2MX-1. The same game code and settings always produce the same cards, so you can check a card against the call list later.

Picture bingo: use this when you want picture squares that are not emoji.
Animal bingo: use this for an animal-themed game with pictures and words.
Bingo caller: use this to call the numbers or items for a game on screen.
Virtual bingo: use this to play with people who are not in the same room.
Printable bingo cards: use this for classic 1–75 number cards.
Birthday bingo: use this for a birthday party game with themed items.