"A Christmas Carol" 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.

1. Bob Cratchit is paid starvation wages of 15 shillings a week.
2. Dickens is "perfectly stricken down" by the report.
3. The idea of writing a story instead of an article is conceived in Manchester.
4. Scrooge's engagement and his transformation into a miser are revealed by the Ghost of Christmas Past.
5. Scrooge expresses concern for Tiny Tim's well-being to the Ghost of Christmas Present.
6. The powerful illustration of Ignorance and Want is discussed.
7. The second parliamentary report is about the Employment of Women and Children.
8. Tiny Tim, the crippled child, is introduced in Bob Cratchit's family.
9. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows the poor clerk Bob Cratchit's home life.
10. Scrooge sees his own grave in the vision from the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.
11. Dickens wants the book to be attractive with hand-painted illustrations.
12. Scrooge is described as the ultimate miser and loner.
13. Dickens reads a Government report in 1843.
14. Dickens composes "A Christmas Carol" in a frenzy while walking through the streets of London.
15. Dickens wants to "strike the heaviest blow" for the victims of the Industrial Revolution.
16. John Leech is the illustrator for "A Christmas Carol."
17. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge a bleak and desolate death.
18. John Leech, the illustrator, adds factory chimneys in the background of the illustration of Ignorance and Want.
19. The Ghost of Christmas Past shows scenes from Scrooge's childhood and young manhood.
20. The three spirits are introduced: Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future.
21. Scrooge's conversion happens in one night on Christmas Eve.
22. Dickens describes the conception of Scrooge's character as a combination of "screw and gouge."
23. The Ghost of Christmas Present hints at a potential outbreak of revolution with the depiction of Ignorance and Want.
24. The Ghost of Christmas Present shows Scrooge scenes of family happiness during Christmas.
25. Thackeray praises "A Christmas Carol" as a national benefit.
26. Dickens couldn't control the multiple adaptations and dramatizations of the Carol.
27. The Ghost of Christmas Present is depicted as a great, jolly giant surrounded by festive food.