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Bad Book Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. plot mandated friendship failure/third act breakup
  2. fatphobic/ offensive to fat people/just weird about bodies
  3. Sus descriptions of minors
  4. Everything said gets dumbed down and repeated
  5. plot holes
  6. characters have too much plot armor
  7. characters' personalities are always changing
  8. bad mental health representation
  9. Characters are one-dimensional
  10. 4.5+ star rating on goodreads
  11. bad worldbuilding
  12. heavy handed exposition
  13. Transphobic/ offensive to trans people
  14. nothing happens
  15. pacing is inconsistent
  16. Racist/ offensive to people of color
  17. literally spreading misinformation
  18. author's poorly concealed fetish
  19. Tragic /violent events for no reason
  20. Sexist/ offensive to women
  21. Homophobic/ offensive to gay people
  22. simple good vs. evil dynamic
  23. nonsensical literary devices
  24. stilted dialogue
  25. cringey title drop
  26. Purple prose
  27. Obvious plot twist
  28. MCs are unbelievably hot for no reason
  29. unneeded prologue
  30. random pop culture references
  31. Xenophobic/ offensive to immigrants (most often non-americans)
  32. telling not showing
  33. characters are just plain stupid
  34. passage of time, who's that?
  35. uses a word/phrase way too many times
  36. Antisemetic/ offensive to jewish people
  37. characters literally fell out of a coconut tree
  38. characters' trauma doesn't affect them in any way
  39. Ableist/ offensive to disabled people
  40. forced sexual tension
  41. author did no research
  42. writing is too vague
  43. Plot twist for pure shock value
  44. poorly worded phrases
  45. Islamophobic/ offensive to muslims
  46. characters all have the same voice
  47. too many "important" events crammed into such short space
  48. disbelief is too suspended
  49. readers are given too much unimportant information
  50. stupid cliche
  51. poorly written children
  52. anticlimatic buildup/reveal
  53. obvious checkov's gun