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