This is a silly side-project that started as a way to have fun with friends while in self isolation. Our weekly movie bingo gathering quickly turned from 6 to 20 people, and I thought it would be selfish to keep the cards all to ourselves (also the drinking.bingo domain name was cheap. How could I pass that up). This bingo card has a free space and 49 words: Friends in Low Places, Day Drinking, Drinking Class, Save Water, Drink Beer, Drink to that All Night, Drinking Problem, You and Tequila, Fix a Drink, Tequila, Any Ol' Barstool, I Love this Bar, Drink in My Hand, Drink a Beer, Beer Can't Fix It, Every Little Honky Tonk Bar, Why We Drink, Chug-A-Lug, Parking Lot Party, Pretty Good At Drinking.

A Toronto teacher is turning to dark humour to cope with fears over the Ontario government’s back-to-school plan, creating a drinking bingo game from the education minister’s most-used answers.

The National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week® (NDAFW) Bingo game educates players about topics and facts related to drug and alcohol use. Anyone can use the NDAFW Bingo game: classrooms, school-wide groups, community groups, and others.

Drinking Bingo Games

Instead of displaying the words “BINGO” at the top, the game cards (linked below) display “NDAFW.” (You can print the cards provided or make your own.) The center of the card is an empty ('free') space; the other blocks are filled with terms related to NDAFW.

The caller (teacher, RA, or mentor) calls out a word from the NDAFW Vocabulary Sheet (linked below) and reads the definition that goes with that word. The game continues until one of the players has a winning BINGO pattern (up, down, across, or diagonal).

After the game ends, callers can finish reading the vocabulary words that weren’t called and their definitions.

• Download Bingo Cards (PDF, 21MB)
• Download Vocabulary Sheet (PDF, 1MB)

Election Day may be upon us, but many Americans may already be coming up with plans for another important event—election night. Millions of Americans are sure to stay up late tonight watching the votes come in, and whether they're celebrating or commiserating, there's a lot that can be done to make what could be a tense evening more enjoyable.

Americans over the legal drinking age may choose to (responsibly) play a drinking game as they watch the election coverage tonight, to make light of what may be a very stressful few hours. Considering the 2020 election is taking place in 'unprecedented times,' there are plenty of buzzwords to keep an ear out for—and to drink to—from 'pandemic' to 'Supreme Court.'

Get creative and come up with your own drinking games and bingo cards, or look below for some inspiration to responsibly enjoy election night 2020.

Election Night Bingo Drinking Game

Vine Pair has come up with a bingo card to play while watching the election coverage as the results come in. Grab a beer, wine, or something stronger, play along, and drink every time someone mentions 'climate change,' 'Ukraine,' or 'Florida.'

Follow the bingo card from your phone or laptop, or print out Vine Pair's bingo card to tick off the boxes as you play along. Get creative with how you play your board—maybe take a sip when you tick off a square or take a shot when you complete a row or column, for example.

Unprecedented Election Night Drinking Game

Rather than simply taking a drink when a buzzword is mentioned, Our Community Now has come up with a slightly more complex drinking game for an unprecedented election night that sees viewers take anything from one sip to pouring a whole new drink, depending on what happens on the night.

Hear the words 'too close to call' or 'unprecedented times'? Take one sip. If a commentator plays around with a big touchscreen of the U.S. or solves theoretical math problems with projected electoral votes, take two sips, and finish your drink if the phrase 'hanging chads' is mentioned.

Drinking Bingo Printable

When should you skip all of the above and go straight to pouring yourself a whole other drink? If Kanye West wins.

Drinking Bingo Rules

Election Night Mustache Drinking Game

Alternatively, if you're looking for a more visual, comical kind of game, Twitter users discussed adapting the mustache movie drinking game for election night. This drinking game sees viewers tape a paper mustache to the TV screen and drink every time it lines up with somebody's face—perhaps a more lighthearted drinking game to help ease the tension as the results roll in.