Corporate jargon bingo cards to print
Print up to eight corporate jargon bingo cards, two to a page, every one different. Deal them from the general set or a themed one, from the sales floor to the strategy offsite.
Corporate jargon bingo
How to print the bingo cards
Printing corporate jargon bingo cards
Pick a set under Squares and a number under Cards, then press Print the cards.
These are the same sets our buzzword bingo game deals from.
| The cards | Detail |
|---|---|
| Cards in one batch | 1 to 8, each with its code in the top corner |
| Cards on each A4 or Letter page | Two, in black and grays |
| Phrases on each card | 24, dealt at random from one set |
| Phrases in the general set and each of the nine themed sets | 70 |
| Phrases shared by two cards from the same set | About eight on average |
| Squares to listen for first | The most-searched corporate buzzwords |
| The page’s link | Prints the same cards next week |
A corporate bingo card as text
Every card has its own copy button. It reads Copy card 1 as text on the first card, Copy card 2 as text on the second, and so on. A copied card pastes as five lines of five phrases, ready for a Slack or Teams message.
How to play corporate jargon bingo
Corporate buzzword bingo with paper cards
Hand out the cards before the all-hands, with a pen for each player. Cross off a phrase when somebody says it. Five in a line wins.
A player stuck on a square can look up any general-set phrase in our corporate jargon dictionary. All the phrases, from every set, are also in the daily corporate jargon quiz.
The meetings worth printing cards for
Big meetings with a script fill a card fastest:
- For the return-to-office town hall, print the All-hands set. It has “culture”, “boots on the ground” and “north star”.
- At a hiring kickoff, the HR and remote set is the one with “hit the ground running” and “self-starter”.
- A commencement speech works too. In 1996, MIT hackers handed buzzword bingo cards to the graduates before Vice President Al Gore spoke. Gore acknowledged the prank in his speech.
Rows, columns and the bingo paradox
In number bingo with many players, a row win is more than three times as likely as a column win. That’s the bingo paradox, and it comes from each column drawing its numbers from its own range. Phrase cards like these have no number range per column, so a row and a column are equally likely to finish first.
Questions about corporate bingo cards
How to make unique bingo cards?
Shuffle the word list for each card and take the first 24, so every card gets its own draw. The general set has 70 phrases, and so does every other set. With 70 to pick from, the chance of two identical cards is too small to worry about.
How many words do you need for a bingo card?
24 for a five by five card, because the middle square is free. A list of 70 keeps the cards apart: two cards from one set share about eight phrases on average.
Can you print bingo cards for free?
Yes. This page prints 1 to 8 different corporate jargon bingo cards, two to an A4 or Letter page, with no sign-up. Press Deal different cards for a new batch when a meeting needs more than eight.
Why do rows win more often than columns in bingo?
Because number bingo gives each column its own range of numbers, which makes a row win over three times as likely when many people play. Phrase cards have no such ranges. Here, rows and columns finish first equally often.