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Thriller/Mystery/Horror Novel 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. Unreliable narrator
  2. red herring
  3. someone comes back from the dead or "dead"
  4. creepy children
  5. plot twist
  6. story about siblings
  7. pov change midway through
  8. protagonist acts suspicious for no reason
  9. everyone suspects the wrong person
  10. the villain is always one step ahead
  11. isolated house
  12. mental illness used as a plot device
  13. two people are actually one person
  14. one or more characters explicitly described as a psychopath
  15. intense scene featuring the protagonist driving
  16. Dual pov
  17. unnecessary misogyny
  18. something that happened years ago gets revealed later on
  19. "she let out a breath she didn't know she was holding"
  20. podcast
  21. "she was actually dreaming/imagining things the whole time!"
  22. police are incompetent
  23. protagonist makes bad choices involving their safety
  24. plot hole
  25. supernatural/unexplained element
  26. pets are acting weird
  27. cheating
  28. nature/wilderness setting
  29. the spouse is the villain
  30. epilogue with the protagonist moving on from the events of the novel
  31. someone disappears
  32. small town vibes
  33. college or private school setting
  34. dinner party scene